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Dave Chappelle wins Grammy for The Closer despite controversy over Netflix special
Dave 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.
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Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tarts film gets all-star cast
“Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story.”Seinfeld, 68, is starring, writing, directing and producing the origin story of the breakfast pastry — his first film in 15 years.He last lent his acting chops on the silver screen in 2007’s “Bee Movie.”On Wednesday, the Netflix movie’s delicious cast was announced and includes A-list stars that sound de-lite-ful.Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Tom Lennon, Adrian Martinez, Bobby Moynihan, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater and Sarah Cooper are set to appear in the comedy, the Wrap reported.The flick will take watchers back to 1963 Michigan, and will chronicle the food manufacturing companies, Kellogg’s and Post, who are cereal enemies.“[It is] a tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar and menacing milkmen,” the logline for the movie said.The story follows the two brands as they compete to devise a pastry that will transform how kids eat breakfast for generations to come.Seinfeld co-wrote the film with Spike Feresten and Barry Marder and came up with the project idea during the coronavirus pandemic, Deadline reported last year.“Stuck at home watching endless sad faces on TV, I thought this would be a good time to make something based on pure silliness,” he told the publication.
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