The Closer for Vax - What Does Dave Chapell Say in It?

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Dave spell has dropped a bunch stand up specials on netflik. His latest and apparently last, the closer, hits a little differently for starters. Asia romano: Mostof is him just talking about transpeople. He also has a moment where he misses genders one of his friends,. deliberately to sort of make a point that we should be able to laugh at jokes like these.

Vox's Aja Romano explains how Dave Chappelle's latest standup special led to a reckoning at Netflix. Vulture's Craig Jenkins assesses whether there's anything funny in it.

Today’s show was produced by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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