"“I was doing jokes that some people thought were controversial and some people didn't,” he said. “But that experience, from my perspective, is much different than what it must have been like watching it.”"
"“People would think it's me versus the gay community,” he continued. “I never looked at it like that. I always thought it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself.”"
"“Most of those people who were critical of what I was doing didn't seem like they were of it.” “They had their faces pressed against the glass, commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren't in there doing it,” he said, before pivoting to platitudes about free speech absolutism in comedy."
"“Every opinion you can think of, is represented in a comedy club. Every type of person you can imagine does stand-up comedy, transgender stand- up comics, black, white, Asian, every kind of perspective,” he said. “And we all champion whatever opinion we champion. We would never think to silence one another.”"
Chappelle said some audiences found his jokes controversial while others did not, and he described the experience of performing as different from watching. He said he did not view the backlash as a conflict between himself and the gay community, but as corporate interests and culture negotiating. He claimed many critics were not participating in the environment they were judging. He argued that comedy clubs represent every opinion and every type of person, including transgender stand-up comics and performers from many backgrounds. He said performers champion the opinions they support and would not silence one another. Obama and Craig Robinson asked about what it is like when his comedy does not work.
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