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A First-Time Stand-Up Heckled Dave Chappelle and Won

Dave Chappelle might be the first stand-up comedian who has ever responded to a rude heckler by trying to take the offender under his wing and teach him how to be a great comedian. And, based on that heckler’s reaction, Chappelle will be the last to try that move as well.

The overlap between respected rappers and stand-up comedians capable of killing in any room is a decidedly slim slice of a Venn diagram — for every Donald Glover/Childish Gambino who successfully jumps from comedy to music, there’s a T.I. who struggles to find green grass on the other side of that fence. Of all the up-and-coming artists in the modern media landscape, Abbott Elementary star Zack Fox seems the most likely to succeed as both a stand-up and rapper as the hip-hop and comedy worlds take note of his rising star.

Reddit Tries To Name A Comedian Who Was Canceled Over A Joke

"Cancel culture" is easily the most oft-discussed topic of the modern online comedy community, but how many comedians can count themselves as actual victims of the supposed "You can't joke about anything nowadays" rule? According to Reddit, maybe like four of them.

Typically, when a comedian experiences a temporary fall from grace, it's due to their offstage actions as opposed to their actual act, like the Bill Cosbys or Chris D’Elia’s of the #MeToo movement. Controversies stemming from the actual content of an artist's comedy, such as Dave Chappelle's ongoing tussle with the transgender community, usually result in a net commercial gain for the offending comic – in Chappelle’s case, about $60 million worth of it. If the invisible woke mob and hypersensitive keyboard warriors of the online left are actually on a campaign to end all comedy the way the manosphere says they are, then, frankly, they’re doing a shit job at it.

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