Comedian Dave Chappelle will screen a documentary at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on November 15, and the event, according to the stadium’s website, will include a live appearance by Chappelle “and friends.”
What the live appearance would entail was not revealed, although tickets were scheduled to go on sale, at an undisclosed price, on October 27 via Ticketmaster.
The stand-up comedian veteran recently made headlines with his Netflix special “The Closer,” released earlier this month.
The special contains many jokes about Chappelle’s relationship with the trans community, prompting some Netflix employees to go on a brief strike last week.
Before the strike, organizers required Netflix to acknowledge the damage caused by the special, set aside a fund for trans and non-binary talents, hire trans people in leadership positions, and attach a disclaimer to “The Closer” saying it includes “transphobic language”. , misogyny, homophobia and hate speech “.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos admitted to mishandling employee reaction to the special.
Chappelle announced the upcoming event in an Instagram post on the tour dates. accompanied by a clip from a recent stand-up performance.
In the clip, Chappelle says the documentary is about stand-up events that he and other comedians held near his home in Ohio in the summer of 2020. He says that after the controversy surrounding “The Closer,” it was pulled. from various film festivals and now “no one will touch” the film.
He jokes that he’s willing to meet up with his trans naysayers, provided they’ve seen “The Closer” in its entirety, and “they have to admit that Hannah Gadsby is not funny.”
Gadsby, an Australian comedian, had reacted to the special by denouncing Chappelle’s “emotionally stunted partial worldview” and Netflix’s “amoral algorithm cult.”
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