Caitlyn Marie Jenner (born William Bruce Jenner; October 28, 1949) is an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal–winning decathlete.
Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by Olympic decathlete Jack Parker's coach, L. D. Weldon, to try the decathlon, Jenner won the men's decathlon event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, setting a third successive world record and gaining fame as "an all-American hero".
Given the unofficial title of "world's greatest athlete", Jenner established a career in television, film, writing, auto racing, business, and as a Playgirl cover model.
Dave Chappelle wins Grammy for The Closer despite controversy over Netflix special
dailymail.co.ukDave Chappelle was the winner of the Grammy for Best Comedy Album for his Netflix special The Closer, which sparked outrage for featuring jokes aimed at the transgender community.Chappelle, 49, who did not attend the awards ceremony last night, beat out Jim Gaffigan, Randy Rainbow, Patton Oswalt, and Louis C.K., another controversial comedian, for the award.Chappelle generated anger after the release of The Closer in 2021, which included remarks about the transgender community and prompted swift backlash from offended onlookers and even staffers at Netflix, which in recent years aired a slew of the comic's specials.The backlash included a staged walkout from employees at Netflix's LA HQ, after the streaming giant's CEO Ted Sarandos defended Chappelle's jokes as artistic expression and nothing more than an example of the comedian's 'creative freedom.'In The Closer, Chappelle is at pains to stress that he does not hate transgender people, and tells a long anecdote about a trans woman comic, who he describes as a friend, who came to his defense in earlier entanglements with the community.
Dave Chappelle was the winner of the Grammy for Best Comedy Album for his Netflix special The Closer, which sparked outrage last year for featuring jokes aimed at the transgender communityHe was criticised for intentionally misgendering the trans friend.Chappelle says: 'Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth.
That is a fact.'In the contentious special, Chappelle also jokes that women today view transwomen the same way black people might view white women wearing blackface, and remarked that women are entitled to feel anger toward transwomen, since Caitlyn Jenner.
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