Comedian Michelle Buteau blasted Dave Chappelle for making money off “not funny” and “dangerous” jokes about the transgender community in his successful Netflix specials.
Buteau hosted her own comedy special “Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall,” which premiered on Netflix Tuesday. During her act, she made an explicit joke regarding her “beautiful, Black lesbian friend,” which she claimed was an example of a respectful way to reference the LGBTQ community.
“What I’m saying is it can be done. It can be done. We can tell jokes and stories and not disparage a whole community,” Buteau said. “We can do that, we can make it funny. You just have to work at it, right?
“So if you guys ever run into Dave Chappelle, can you let him know that s—? I don’t think he knows that s—.”
“I don’t think we’ll run into Dave because he’s the GOAT. And he is the GOAT, if that means ‘going off about trans people.’
“Dave, it’s not funny. It’s dangerous,” she continued. “I can’t believe somebody would make millions and millions of dollars for making people feel unsafe. That is so wild to me, truly.”
Buteau declared, “I’m manifesting this s— tonight. This is a Radio City Music Hall takeover, and I’m gonna tell everybody I wanna make millions and millions of dollars for making people feel safe, seen, secure, heard and entertained.”
Carrey employed a “method” approach to portraying real-life comedian Andy Kaufman by remaining in character at all times, and Chappelle was told by the crew to address Carrey as “Andy” when he met him.
“I wanted to meet Jim Carrey and I had to pretend this n—a was Andy Kaufman all afternoon. And he was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey,” he remarked. “Anyway, I say all that to say that’s how trans people make me feel.”
Fox News’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
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