Said Garrett Morris, calling Dave Chappelle's show, "The Closer," "brilliant," in an interview at Hollywood Reporter.
The interviewer says, "The reason he cited for walking away from Comedy Central is that he did a blackface sketch, and there was a white guy laughing at it too hard. And it made him uncomfortable. He was like, 'People are not understanding what I mean.' Now it seems he’s not understanding what trans people mean."
Everybody should be able to understand — if you’re a mature human being — everybody can and might be the butt of a joke in a democracy.
Interviewer: "And he was very preoccupied with the plumbing, you know? The genitalia, the this and the that. Does it really matter?"
Morris:
That’s why Miss [J.K.] Rowling is now in trouble because she said it’s a fact. Gender is a fact. Is it not? I’m asking you. Is it not? Gender is not a fact?
Interviewer: "You can’t choose the body you end up with."
Morris:
I like to think that he didn’t hold back, that he talked the way he felt. And, basically, he was saying that everybody should be what they are. You know? Look, I was raised partly by a gay uncle, OK? I was raised by a Baptist minister. So by the time I was 12, 13, I knew there was a difference between what was called “the ministers of music” and other people. Live and let’s just live. That’s it. I mean, you might’ve never heard the part he talked about where the trans person who he had as his lead-in committed suicide. And that’s why I think he was angry about what happened to her from her own community. They’re talking about how you can’t be whatever. To me, that makes no sense. I think Dave is a genius, to be honest. He’s a comic genius. I put him on the same level as I put Richard Pryor. But Richard — the laughs were different. He had the ability to make you laugh at something and later on realize he was making a political point. Dave doesn’t do that. Dave has substance going on as he makes you laugh. You are hearing what he’s talking about right in your face. Maybe a bad choice, but that’s a level up anyway. And for me, Richard Pryor is the greatest monologist I’ve ever heard in my life, period.
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Morris is too old (and irrelevant) to be cancelled, but he has a point...
Uh oh. Another black man standing up against the left's/LLR-left's cancel culture.
LLR Chuck is NOT going to like that.
IMVHO comedy requires both the comic and the audience to enter the zone of play. It’s a distinct state where anything is possible and the unexpected perspective is routine, the twist of absurdity is the straight-up truth.
The problem with these Prog morons is they want, no, they need, to beat everything to death. They are Serious People and their world is oh so carefully arranged, fully defined into unforgiving Manichean terms, with the virtuous over here and the damned over there, and the Progs at the middle sorting out our souls for us.
They have no room for mercy or forgiveness. And ultimately comedy is all about forgiveness.
‘Interviewer: "You can’t choose the body you end up with."’
That’s it exactly, isn't it, interviewer person?
Mickey Kaus called the Fauci beagle meme Fauschwitz. Then he accused Robert Wright of laughing. So it's a metajoke about the comedy situation.
Interviewer: "You can’t choose the body you end up with."
Do you Ever Wonder, if Interviewers have Ever Listened to a Word they Say?
"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
he IS admitting, that transism is a myth, right?
he DOES realize, that he's saying that transism is a myth, right?
am i missing something?
Garrett Morris and Ernie Hudson had decent careers, but deserved even better given their talent.
"If we make a joke about trans [people] or gays, suddenly it’s sacrilege."
Right. A sacred cause needs taboos. Progressive power depends on creating new forms of inexcusable deviance. Sacrilege is a tool.
"I don’t see what’s wrong with that, with all due respect."
A little naive.
"Interviewer: "You can’t choose the body you end up with.""
Right. But that doesn't prevent the left from acting as if you can, and more importantly, trying to force the deplorables to say what ain't so. Getting people to express the lie is the way to debase them into meek conformity.
Ann - can you please repost Morris’ quotes again in all-caps? Because, I CAN’T HEAR HIM!
Lets repeat it over and over,
There is Nothing That Can't Be Mocked.
Nothing.
And that applies to JIMM himself - Jihad, Islam, Muslims, Mohammad.
Fascists cannot accept being the butt of jokes.
Unless they are boot licking and servile.
The skin of leftists is thin for a reason.
It's a corollary of Rules for Radicals that ridicule cannot be allowed when you are in power.
Garrett Morris makes me happy. More please...
OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT: GARRETT MORRIS RESPECTFULLY REJECTS CANCEL CULTURE!!!!
I remember that guy from a recurring? SNL gag he had, talking like a Latin baseball player. His "Baseball is very very good to me" line was hilarious. But it did confirm for me what I already suspected. I need to learn the hell out this new language and avoid speaking it until I'm confident enough.
Interviewer: "You can’t choose the body you end up with."
Really?
You can't do exercise? You can't get Lasik? You can't get a sex change? you can't get cosmetic surgery?
That aside, so what?
you got a body that you don't like. I feel for you, so did I.
but your feelings don't change reality. Were you born with a penis? You're male. Were you born with a vagina? your'e female.
Stop demanding that we pretend otherwise
Everything can be mocked?
Sure in the privacy of your home. Or if you're a complete nobody.
But if someone with power gets interested, or you get a little too famous, then you'd better NOT mock the wrong thing. Because if you do, that college application may be denied. You may get fired from your job. You may end up on no-fly list. You may even find Antifa at your doorstep.
In Europe and the UK, people end up in jail for "mocking the wrong thing". British "Bobbies" actually surf the net, looking to lockup someone who "Mocked the wrong thing".
Dave Chapelle may be funny, he may be as funny as your funniest friend.
but i feel so so sorry for anyone who thinks he is some kind of a genius.
he is not very bright, his insights are mostly stupid and not very clever arguments about why he dislikes people, he verges on being completely self-unaware, and he does not like anyone very much.
except for that, he is the very very picture of a modern major general.
"This man needs a retirement home and a warm bowl of soup."
The non-binary snowflake generation will not tolerate your insubordination.
>>"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
I thought it was all about the body you *started* with. Apparently that no longer counts for anything. You are now free to change to whatever body (or bodies, or none) at will.
This used to be considered prima facia proof of insanity. Now, it confers the ultimate authority: "victim".
If boys can be girls, why can't "victims" be the most powerful and privileged? Sure, it inverts the meaning of the word 'victim', but that's trivial compared to inverting the meaning of DNA and chromosomes.
Mr. Morris was a regular for full service gas and oil at North Hollywood Chevron back in the day. Don't remember his car other than it was a late model American boxy boat.
“Now it seems he’s not understanding what trans people mean."
Do tell. My understanding is that they mean they have a profound mental health challenge.
So, we can encourage them to fall deeper into that hole ‘cause, face it, that’s the easy and cheap way to kiss off non-violent nutters. At worst, they commit suicide, but, hey, you were very open-minded and supportive.
Or, society could get serious about trying to help them, but that’s expensive and no one really gives a shit about mental health in this country anyway. Plus, Progs won’t allow it.
I thought of Garrett Morris when the Rolling Stones "retired" "Brown Sugar" with no word about whether they'd be playing "Some Girls."
Garrett Morris: [dignified, dripping with snooty condescension] Now, I’d like to speak about the subject of a certain Mick Jagger – of the Rolling Stones. … And I’m going to talk about the song he sang — a song in which he sings these very words: “Black girls – just want to have sex – all night long.” …
Now, Mr. Jagger, there is only one question I want to ask you — Jaggs. … And you better have the answer, man, you better have the answer, since you have besmirched the character of black women. Therefore, here is my question, Jaggs. [pause, takes off eyeglasses, suddenly drops the pose, pleading]Where are all of these black broads, man? …[huge cheers and applause] Hey, like, where ARE they, baby? You got any phone numbers for me, baby? …Please send ’em to me. [puts glasses back on, dignified again] Thank you. … [enthusiastic applause]
The song didn't say "have sex," though.
"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
I thought it was all about the body you *started* with.
"You can’t choose the body you end up with."
I thought it was all about the body you *started* with.
That's what "they" meant.
Dave Chappelle gave up the game when he walked away from his Comedy Central show, after noting that a white man laughed 'a little too hard' at his jokes.
It's not for him to say how much someone should laugh at his jokes; it's only up to him to make someone laugh by making them. If he has the gall to want to dictate how much someone should be laughing, he's not a comedian but a messenger.
He's lost a little off his fast ball since he abandoned Comedy Central, in my opinion. His last two specials simply haven't been as funny as they should have been, and he's been graded on a curve because there are no other major comedians that are speaking out against Cancel Culture in an audience forum; this is low-hanging fruit that is being abandoned by comedy. As such, the entire field has betrayed us, and has betrayed art. As a black man, he's taking offense that the LGBTQ+ crowd is co-opting the black American experience to elevate themselves in the victim stack. This is not speculation; he's said this openly. For him, blacks are the apex victim, and he'll defend the right to dictate victimhood to the very end.
He's not much better than the late night 'comedians' who live for audience clapter. He has jumped the shark. Truly a shame.
We’re sadly down to Dave Chappell and Bill Burr remaining as our cultural philosophers. Of course, they get at philosophical through mockery and comedy. It’s no longer possible to get to philosophy through logic and reason - we’ve ruined that for
ourselves. So we’re left with two rockstar comedians. And, and then we have the audacity to complain about they way they philosophize when they’re the only two trying to save us from ourselves using the only tools they have in their professional tool bag. Dave Chappell and Bill Burr are not the baddies. The rest of us are.
We’re not too far from Yellow Springs, OH so I think we’re going to drive over for lunch today. Hopefully, we’ll run into Dave and we won’t bug the shit out of him.
rcocean said...
Everything can be mocked?
Sure in the privacy of your home. Or if you're a complete nobody.
But if someone with power gets interested, or you get a little too famous, then you'd better NOT mock the wrong thing. Because if you do, that college application may be denied. You may get fired from your job. You may end up on no-fly list. You may even find Antifa at your doorstep
If I ever end up with Antifa on my doorstep, they will end up with my bullets in their skulls.
If more people had that reasonable policy, the domestic terrorists at antifa wouldn't be a problem
No one likes to see their sacred cow butchered. Trans are a sacred cow that many people have adopted. The black racial experience is another.
Making jokes about these are transgressive. They fall within the realm of secular blasphemy.
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