TV Review: STICKS & STONES

In the old days before people started going crazy with boredom because modern technology had robbed them of every task formerly done by humans and now they have too much time on their hands, someone who was half-man and half-woman was called a "freak" and might have been seen in a "freak show" at the circus. Now we call them "transgenders" and treat them like royalty, or at the very least CEOs, giving them their own bathrooms and splashing them on magazine covers. It's nuts.

Dave Chappelle dares to insinuate this in his new Netflix TV special, Sticks & Stones, which has been panned by all the petrified, politically correct reviewers at places like the New York Times and the smug, self-satisfied, oh-so-literary New Yorker. Well, never mind them, they wouldn't know funny if it hit them over the head with a penis pump. I watched it last night and it was truly hysterical.

Over the course of one hour Dave says everything you've been thinking but aren't allowed to say, and somehow gets paid for it. He screams "Faggot!" into a crowded auditorium and is met with gales of laughter. (Don't try this at home.) He wonders, as I do, why it's okay for him to say "nigga" but not "faggot." He advises every black American to register for a legally-owned gun. He makes fun of gays and lesbians, and let's face it, they do take themselves too seriously just because they like having sex with their own kind. I mean really, who cares?

Anyway, if you're in the mood for splitting a gut, watch it.