Trevor Noah Speaks On Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” Controversy
On the latest edition of 60 minutes, Trevor Noah sat down and spoke with Leslie Stahl. The comedian Trevor Noah, was asked about his thoughts on the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special “the closer” that had him trending for weeks.
Noah shared his thoughts on the special when asked if Dave Chappelle crossed the line. “Did Dave Chappelle cross the line?” Noah asked. “Yes, no. It immediately puts me in a position where I have to choose a side when I think that the matter is a lot more complex than that. I think everybody is defining the line for themselves.”
Stahl disagreed that “society defines the line,” and Noah respectfully pushed back while elaborating on how “there is no line”:
“But America is clearly divided in that half of society has gone like, ‘No, Dave Chappelle, we love what you said. We’re sick of wokeness. We’re sick of people being told what to say. We’re sick of not knowing how to use the right pronoun. You’re right, Dave Chappelle.’ So then if half of society is saying Dave Chappelle is right and half of society is saying that he’s wrong, then that means there is no line. It means society is seeing the line from two different sides. And so that’s why I say you cannot say did he cross the line because which side are you looking at the line from defines whether or not he crossed it.”
Next up for the superstar, Chappelle is that he will team up with Netflix for a comedy festival. Dave Chappelle had a lot of people on the fence about his comments, but he also had a lot of industry friends and fans standing behind him. #Socialites do you think Trebor Noah gave a great perspective on the situation?