Dave Chappell’s “Sticks and Stones”

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Chappell has a new Netflix routine that takes aim at everybody, left and right, but mainly satirizes the growing Political Correctness that is so common today. The show can be vulgar at times but is spot on, you have to give the guy props for saying what most people think but are afraid to say. I think these lines summarize to me the state of history study and historians today. From a review in The Atlantic:


Early into Sticks and Stones, Dave Chappelle’s newest Netflix stand-up special, the veteran comedian makes a two-part nostalgia play. “Tonight I’m gonna try some impressions out,” he says. Chappelle quickly notes that he has only two to offer, and that the first is a send-up of the Founding Fathers: “Hurry up and finish that Constitution, n*****r. I’m trying to get some sleep,” the comedian grumbles, using the same mock-white voice that animated many of his Chappelle’s Showsketches. The line channels the sharp irreverence that made the series so beloved: Crass and vulgar though it may be, it also takes aim at the reputations of men who’ve been largely exalted throughout American history despite their participation in the brutal hypocrisy of slavery.

After the crowd rewards him with rapturous laughter, Chappelle shifts gears. “The next one’s a little harder,” he admits, before presenting the audience with a challenge: “I want to see if you can guess who it is I’m doing an impression of.” He adopts a Homer Simpson–like tone and flails his arms: “Uh, duh. Hey! Durr! If you do anything wrong in your life—duh!—and I find out about it, I’m gonna try to take everything away from you!” Chappelle whines. “And I don’t care what I find out! Could be today, tomorrow, 15, 20 years from now. If I find out, you’re f**king—duh!—finished.” The audience doesn’t have much time to guess which dullard Chappelle is imitating, as he reveals the answer almost immediately: “That’s you!”

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https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/596947/
 

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I watched his Netflix specials always funny and insightful...
 
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