Why Transphobic Comics Maher, Gervais, Chapelle Are Unfunny Dinosaurs
From left: Bill Maher photo by Rich Fury/VF22/Getty Images for Vanity Fair; Dave Chappelle photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images; Ricky Gervais photo by David M.
Benett/Getty ImagesViews expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent company, Pride Media.This is like the fifth article I’ve had to write about this subject.
I’ve written them individually for Dave Chappelle, for Ricky Gervais, and for Bill Maher, but thanks to auspicious timing, I can now write one to cover all three because they all decided to suck within a couple weeks of each other.If I’m going to be honest, I appreciate it, because covering each of their transphobic chicanery individually would be exhausting.
If you haven’t heard about what each of them did, let me catch you up: Gervais released a Netflix special featuring the classic bathroom predator trope, Maher is worried about the sudden uptick in the lack of bigotry, and Chappelle ninja smoke-bombed a John Mulaney show to regale the audience with attack helicopter jokes.As I’ve said.
