Dave Chappelle's Charlie Kirk Joke: Can Comedy Get You Canceled?

You're watching the Isaiah Factor Uncensored. I feel f***ed up saying this. Yes. It's scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better. I know I shouldn't say that, but... All right, there he is, Dave Chappelle. Someone was able to get a camera into one of his shows. Which is strictly forbidden and of course now we're dealing with this. Many conservative outlets have gone after him saying he should be canceled and held responsible for those comments against Charlie Kirk. Even Charlie Kirk's wife has issued a statement as well. Our guests are here to talk about it. Nate, former radio personality, now fresh to real estate. Congratulations on passing that test today. Ben Daniel, who is a comedian. We meet in Brigitte Waugh who is a publicist and the legendary Willie D of the Ghetto Boys and Willie D is an actual, actual friend of Dave Chappelle. I got a call one time I'll be quick at three in the morning Willie D says come to the House of Blues. I'm like it's three in the morning. I get there it is him and Dave Chappelle in the back room just chilling and talking and it was a memory I'll never forget. First of all your thoughts about this Will. But a joke. Salute, Dave Chappelle is the goat. First of all, you cannot cancel a goat. Dave Chappelle is the goat. And what's good for the goose is good for the gander. These same people who are up in arms right now about Dave Chappelle's joke was laughing their asses off when George Floyd died. And they're still laughing, they're still cracking jokes about George Floyd. Made fun of Robert Mueller, our FBI director, when he died. You know what he said? You know what the president of the United States said? Good. I'm glad he's dead. These same people who are up in arms and mad at me for what I'm saying right now were cheering and rooting him on like, yeah, Trump. Yeah, Trump, you know why? Cuz anything Trump does is all right with them. They will swing from his disco balls in a heartbeat. You hear what I'm saying? So I don't wanna hear nothing about canceling Dave Chappelle. He's uncancellable. You hear what I'm saying? So shut up. Suck it up, buttercup, it is what it is. All right, Ben, let's hear from you, your thoughts. I'm so glad I don't have to disagree with a legend on this panel. Man, I was like, man, we're on the same, Thank you, we're on the same side of this. I feel like every time you bring me on a panel for something like this, I should just be in a hoodie that says all jokes matter, man. Like, at the end of the day. Dave Chappelle's job is to entertain the people who paid tickets to see Dave Chappelle that night. Taking a joke out of a venue, out of a context, out of the totality of the hour and a half he did is disingenuous. Because for that clip, I guarantee you 15 minutes before that, there was a setup. 20 minutes after that, there was a callback because he's the greatest comedian in the world. I don't know what he was building to. I can't afford Dave Chappelle tickets. I can only speculate. But for my money, I'm like, no, you can't cancel Dave Chappelle. For as angry as you are at Dave Chappelle about this joke, I'm excited. If he put this online, I'm gonna pay to see it. If he's doing this show in an alleyway, I'm gonna buy a ticket. People think that their opinions and feelings and outrage should matter, and it doesn't. We don't care that your feelings are hurt about this joke. You were up and on, like he said, when George Floyd died, you were on the other side of the coin celebrating. It ain't no fun when the rabbit got the gun. All right. That rabbit's really good. Now, Tay, do you think this would have mattered before November 3rd? Would it have mattered before November 3rd? The blue wave we're seeing now, and it seems like the Republican MAGA. They have less power, less energy. I don't think it really would have mattered either way. I think, as I've been saying since Trump has been in office, and just being himself unapologetically, we see that everybody pretty much the same. He's talking noise, he's cheering for violence and everything. So I don't really think it matters. I think that people enjoy what they enjoy, they're going to support what they want to support. And Dave Chappelle is so layered. He literally did a job It's a joke like showing the hypocrisy of people and people are more mad at what Dave Chappelle said than how George Floyd was murdered. And those people to me, that's crazy, that is crazy. Cancelable or not? Not, he's already been- Publicist, marketing expert. I mean, he was already in trouble with the LGBTQ plus community. He didn't get canceled, they were trying to cancel him then. And just agreeing with Willie D and Ben, when they were talking about the comedian in the past at Kevin Hart's roast, made that horrible joke about George Floyd. And we were up in arms. Tony Hinchcliffe. Thank you, I couldn't think of his name. But then tables turn, shoe on the other foot, I mean, it's Dave Chappelle. He's not cancelable and I think that was his point as well too is to show that like people, you know, only are up in arms when it's somebody that they can, you know, have some type of empathy to when it's just somebody else. They don't care until it's their people and it's like, I mean, are we humans or not? Are we human or God? Pick a stroke. Man, if they really were supportive of this guy, Charlie Kirk, they would absolutely love the fact that we have zero empathy for him. Because this is the same guy who said that people with empathy are weak. So right now, their attitudes is the antithesis of what he stood for. So they're all phoning, they're all faking. Ain't nobody scared of y'all, you know. We're going to say what we want to say. We're going to support who we want to support. We support Dave Chappelle. We're going to keep on buying tickets. We're going to keep on selling it out. It ain't nothing you can do about it. We're going to keep on supporting Dave Chappelle. Y'all just mad because the shoe is on the other foot. Dave Chappelle used the same joke, actually, to set up. You were talking about the set up. Yeah. He set it up with the same joke that Tony Hinchcliffe said on Kevin Hart's roast. Yeah. When he talked about how George Floyd was looking up at us struggling to breathe. All right? He said that. There was no outrage, right? There was no outrage. But now, all of a sudden, there's outrage. Man, y'all can kick rocks at a concrete plant barefooted in the dark. I ain't trying to hit none of that. All right. Thank you, guys. We'll be back with more Fact or Uncensored as we continue to talk with Willie D. Y'all got to go. Thank you, Phil. Thank you.