So just to be clear you're problem with Dave Chapelle is basically you liked him when he was younger and now that he's older, you don't like him any more. I don't mean to sound idiotic but seems to be a trend with every generation of comedians: one geneation of audience loves them 'because they tell it like it is" and the next generation hates them because now the people he's making fun of are offended.

i'M not defending Chapelle; for the record I never really liked him twenty years ago. But I think there is a larger problem, and it is generational. It is that is what is absolutely hysterical does not last the passage of time. Richard Pryor would never get out of the gate today either; did you know at one point he nearly destroyed his career when he went on anti-gay rant at the Hollywood Bowl? Of course these days ANY black comedian who uses the N word is considered a bigot by todays AFrican-Americans because it's offensive. i Imagine Gen Z and Millenials watching the opening episode of Chapelle's Show, seeing Clayton Bigsby and saying: "what's so funny about this? They've turned on Chris Rock already and mahy turned on Jerrod Carmichael for hosting the Golden Globes last year. His monologue was one of the most daring things I'd seen any comedian do on an Awards show, but he was lambasted for being 'a sell-out'.

The best comedians always offend somebody. Marc Maron joked in an act that you can still say whatever you want, but now there are consequences. It was funny when he said it because he was talking about old white male comics. The fact that the Overton Window goes fast that you are guaranteed to offend somebody whether whatever you say is taken out of context, in context or just because you hear what you want to hear, is to be clear dangerous to art. I am found of the Voltaire quote you used. The difference between the two of us is that every time I say it, I mean it. You're clearly just giving it lip service and your fellow comments seem to barely have use for it.

To be clear, you hate Dave Chappelle's next special. Fine. BUT YOU WERE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO WATCH IT NOR ARE ANY OF YOUR READERS. I have a problem with Chapelle says in his act to be sure. I have just as big a problem that you seem to be angrier than he just keeps making a living, telling his jokes. No one puts a gun to anyone's head and forces them to watch anything on streaming, certainly not Netflix. You did this voluntarily and you've told us not too. Fine you've done your job. Now stop using is as a strawman for censorship of letting people have the choice to watch anything you find offensive. Because that's a road I will never go down with anyone.