Hacker News Reader

Comment by tptacek | Hacker News Reader

They shouldn't take it down. But it's bad. It's his worst work; the kind of thing you toss off to fulfill a contract obligation. Every bit in it is predictable, mostly because it's almost all rehashed from previous specials. Kevin Hart's bid to host the Oscars? Why not work a Lorena Bobbitt joke in there while you're at it?

He refers to himself as the GOAT in this special, but Bill Burr does this stuff 1000x better than 2021 Chappelle does.

View on HN

That’s to bad…. I haven’t seen this one but I went to the previous show, then watched the tv special.

One thing I noted is that in 2 different performances stuff he seems to “come up with on the fly” was actually carefully writen and performed. The audience Q&A at the end was probably the best part.

It was hard to tell (for me at least) when he was being serious and when he was pushing the limits on things because he could..

Part of the problem is that these are already limits he's pushed over his last 4 specials. He has literally nothing new to say about them. I re-watched a marathon of those preceding specials after watching Closer; every scrap of material in this show was done better in those specials. I thought his long run on trans people in Sticks and Stones was generally pretty cringey, but at least the LGBT car bit had hooks.

Again, the whole "walking up to the line, losing the audience and then getting them back, subverting expectations" thing is something Bill Burr just demonstrably does better than Chappelle does. It didn't have to be that way; I think Chappelle has more natural talent and probably more to say. But he's gotten incredibly lazy. This special was an embarrassment.

If you're the GOAT, no need to tell people because they already know

Doesnt bill Burr just whine about women?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com