Calling the jokes “hurtful and damaging,” Sykes tore apart the comic’s polarizing comments in his 2021 Grammy-winning Netflix stand-up special “The Closer.”
In the 2021 special, Chappelle said he “agrees” that “gender is a fact”, as he discussed how J.K. Rowling had been branded a “TERF” .
“So yeah, the scale is still tipped, I will say, in their favor. But I know I wanted to say something, because so much has been said on that platform. I definitely want to [say] something on the other side of it.”Despite the pair’s friendship going “way back,” Sykes admits she hasn’t spoken to Chappelle about his controversial stand-up gig.
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