Look, I'm not recommending that you go and watch it in any way.

I'm also not saying don't go watch it.

This is the internet.

You know the deal with this program.

I don't get to tell you what to do and you're not here because you want to be told what

to do.

All of that said Dave Chappelle just put out a new special on Netflix and I watched that

the other day and it's funny and troubling and brave and scary.

And man, there's just a whole lot going on there.

But as I watched it, I found that I couldn't just watch it as some guy watching a Netflix

special.

I was watching it as someone who's aware that there are really three completely different

conversations, three completely different audiences that are in view as this Netflix comedy

special is going on.

One is the people who are in the room in Detroit.

It was really fun to sit there and watch a handful of the people in the room respond

to things.

You can kind of tell what your biases were as you watch and you're like, Oh, I bet that

dude is not going to like this.

Oh, I bet that guy over there is going to hate that joke.

I bet that lady's not going to think that's very funny and sure enough, she didn't think

that was very funny repeatedly.

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