Dave Chappelle responded to the controversy over his Netflix standup special “The Closer” — which has been criticized as promoting bigotry toward transgender people — by posting a five-minute video clip to Instagram on Monday in which he denied that he had been invited to speak to transgender employees of the streaming service and refused. “That is not true,” he said in the video, which was taken during a weekend performance in Nashville. “If they had invited me, I would have accepted.
Although I am confused about what we would be speaking about. I said what I said, and boy, I heard what you said. My God, how could I not?