Dave Chappelle Claims Media Took His Trans Jokes Out Of Context: “You Gotta Have A Margin Of Error”

Headlining three shows this week at the Hollywood Palladium, Dave Chappelle is continuing to downplay his history of anti-trans jokes.

The 5x Emmy-winning comedian recently claimed the media has gotten his “jokes wrong” and not allowed for nuance in its coverage of the backlash to his previous stand-up specials, urging viewers to allow “a margin of error.”

“People would think it’s me versus the gay community. I never looked at it like that,” he explained on the IMO podcast with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. “I always thought it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself. So, you know, most of those people who were critical of what I was doing didn’t seem like they were of it. They had, it’s like they had their faces pressed against the glass, commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren’t in there doing it.”

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