![]() He reaches for every low-hanging piece of fruit and munches on it gratuitously. community, as he has been in recent years. Chappelle is singularly fixated on the L.G.B.T.Q. But when an entire comedy set is designed as a series of strategic moves to say whatever you want and insulate yourself from valid criticism, I’m not sure you’re really making comedy. He’s just stating “facts.” He’s just making us think. He’s just being “brutally honest.” He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. ![]() Chappelle makes obvious but elegant rhetorical moves that frame any objections to his work as unreasonable. If there is brilliance in “The Closer,” it’s that Mr. The self-proclaimed “GOAT” (greatest of all time) of stand-up delivers five or six lucid moments of brilliance, surrounded by a joyless tirade of incoherent and seething rage, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia. The set is a 72-minute display of the comedian’s own brittleness. Chappelle spends much of “The Closer,” his latest comedy special for Netflix, cleverly deflecting criticism.
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