Comedian Michelle Buteau lambasts Dave Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes

Comedian and actress Michelle Buteau has taken aim at Dave Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes, saying people don’t have to “disparage a whole community” to tell a funny story.

Chappelle has come under fire in recent years for jibes about the transgender community in his comedy specials, including Netflix’s The Closer in 2021, where he declared he was “team TERF” and made explicit jokes about trans women’s genitals. 

The Closer prompted employee walkouts and protests among Netflix staff and other artists who condemned his humour as not funny but harmful.

Chappelle has subsequently branded his critics “transgender lunatics” and told a sell-out crowd that he had been the victim of “cancel culture” – despite securing more Netflix shows.

Now, in her own Netflix special, Michelle Buteau: A Buteau-ful Mind at Radio City Music Hall, the First Wives Club star had

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