new Netflix comedy special, “The Closer.”Stewart, 58, told TMZ Thursday that Chappelle, 48, is “one of my favorite people on the planet” and that his intentions are “never hurtful.” Chappelle has been under fire since the release of “The Closer” earlier this month, in which he declared himself to be a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (TERF). “They canceled JK Rowling — my God.
Effectually, she said gender was fact, the trans community got mad as s–t, they started calling her a TERF … I’m team TERF,” he quipped in the stand-up special. “Gender is a fact.
Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. This is a fact.”Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos initially defended.
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