The Onion

The new special is hilarious but no one will watch it because of the last one. He addresses it in the first 5 minutes.

I always find it funny that people forget the whole story of the Closer in his special, where he took his trans friend and comedian Daphne on tour, effectively giving her, arguably the single largest possible chance a comedian could have?

Don't want to spoil it but damn, that story broke me.

So, random Chapelle Fact: For the past couple of years Dave Chapelle has had a 24/7 police presence on his property. I assume he's hired them off-duty, but they sit in a county sheriff's car near his front gate. I assume someone made a credible threat to him for some reason, but don't know full details.

Timing-wise, the police presence started close to the whole "Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.