{"id":90414,"date":"2022-05-30T01:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90414"},"modified":"2022-05-30T01:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T08:39:09","slug":"mulaney-chappelle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/05\/30\/mulaney-chappelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulaney &#038; Chappelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ricky Gervais<\/strong>\u2019 special, <strong><em>SuperNature<\/em><\/strong>, was just released on <em>Netflix <\/em>and includes several jokes about the trans community.&nbsp; There are also pointed barbs about fat people, thin people, rich people, poor people, straight people, gay people, and every other imaginable group of people.&nbsp; Gervais says of the trans community, \u201cThey just want to be treated equally.&nbsp; I agree \u2013 that\u2019s why I include them.\u201d&nbsp; Some of his jokes certainly made me cringe.&nbsp; But I wondered \u2013 was I cringing about what Gervais said, or what it triggered in me?&nbsp; Humor should hold up a mirror to society.&nbsp; When a comedian makes you think about your own failings, they have done their job.&nbsp; Of course, not every comic is for every person.&nbsp; I suspect many people who are criticizing Gervais\u2019 special have not even seen it.<\/p>\n<p>I felt the same way about people criticizing <strong>Dave Chappelle<\/strong>.&nbsp; So I was not surprised when many fans expressed outrage when <strong>John Mulaney <\/strong>surprised them with Chappelle as his opening act in Columbus, Ohio (where Dave lives).&nbsp; I don\u2019t know Mulaney, but he\u2019s had a helluva year.&nbsp; He left his wife and went public about his addictions, and connected with <strong>Olivia Munn <\/strong>\u2013 someone I\u2019ve met numerous times yet can never quite place.&nbsp; But any comedian who has the chance (and the balls) to follow Chappelle onstage is fearless.&nbsp; I totally understand that some members of the audience felt ambushed having to sit through Chappelle.&nbsp; Trust me, I felt the same way when <strong><em>Wild Orchid <\/em><\/strong>opened for <strong>Cher<\/strong>!&nbsp; But just do what I did \u2013 put on your earplugs, go to the concession stand, and get drunk.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Gervais\u2019 special, SuperNature, was just released on Netflix and includes several jokes about the trans community.&nbsp; There are also pointed barbs about fat people, thin people, rich people, poor people, straight people, gay people, and every other imaginable group of people.&nbsp; Gervais says of the trans community, \u201cThey just want to be treated equally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90423,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90414\/revisions\/90423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}