Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones

Its been awhile since I saw someone navigate landmines with such mastery

I hope Dave will change the world with this. It was brilliant.

As someone who constantly supports no barriers within comedy, I respect and admire Dave Chappelle for the work he's put into this stand-up special. In a time when everyone is apparently allowed to make their feelings well known, we've succumbed to an age when political correctness means more than the right to free speech. And the entertainment group that gets hit the worst, are comedians.

Comedians are seeing a decline in their audience, because you can sense that they're afraid to be themselves in the material they present. While folks like Kevin Hart and Aziz Ansari are riding this out based on their established audience, Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle are pushing forward, doing their best to show how comedy is meant to be unrestrained.

With no apparent fear, Chappelle takes on the topics of school shootings, feminism, homophobia and opiod addiction, by elaborating their funnier elements. They're jokes that you're bound to make when you're drunk within a safe space, but wouldn't dare say out loud in public environments. This is exactly what we're missing. If a collective group of people can ruin a comedians life based on tweets made 15 years ago, you're effectively killing their art form. Their art is expression, and someone telling them 'how' or 'what' to express, is counterproductive.

I'd encourage everyone to give this a watch. Its extremely controversial, but you need to understand why that is relevant to humor; why hearing these bits are important for comedic progression. I hope this does well enough to bring back old-school stand-up.

About time stand-up did what is supposed to do...make us laugh, make us uncomfortable, make us think and make us laugh again. Dave did this and did it well.

There are several instances of where Dave 'trapped' the audience by taking the joke one direction then twisting the punchline in a 180 turn which made those that was clapping realized how hypocritical they had been....and still got laughs.

This is something everyone should see, but many will miss the point of the whole special and only concentrate on one joke that 'offended' them.

Those that are tired of PC, want to laugh, want to learn...this is for you.

Dave Chappelle is definitely still the best comedian. This is not for the weak hearted and easily offended. Dave goes in and says what he wants. Not gonna lie, it was refreshing to hear someone truly saying jokes with no regard to "correctedness." My wife and I were laughing really hard the entire time. Don't listen to all the click bait news articles, they're just trying to get your clicks via outrage. Watch it for yourself, it's worth it.