Jon Stewart just defended his “very good friend” Dave Chappelle from charges of antisemitism on colbertlateshow
this past weekend. He dismissed out of hand the notion that Chappelle “normalized antisemitism” with his jokes. “I don’t know if you’ve been on comments sections on news articles, but it’s pretty fucking normal,” he said. “Antisemitism is incredibly normal, but the one thing I will say is I don’t believe that censorship and penalty are the way to end antisemitism or to not gain understanding. I don’t believe in that.
Then it was Colbert’s turn to push back. While he said he believes “any comic has a right to say whatever they want,” viewers also “have a right to have a negative reaction to what people say on stage.” Stewart defended Chappelle by saying that comedy “plays with tropes” and comics “rely on those tropes as a shorthand for our material.”
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