Is Dave Chappelle's Humor From a Time Before Black Lives Matter?

by Daudi Abe Netflix
As a teen in the 1980s my comic sensibilities were flavored mainly by the gradual decline of Richard Pryor’s career and the meteoric rise of Eddie Murphy. Murphy, who came up through the Saturday Night Live talent pipeline, burst on the scene with movies like 48 Hrs. (1982), Trading Places (1983), and Beverly Hills Cop (1984). But it was his stand-up that made Murphy the transcendent comedic talent of the decade. Delirious, released in 1983, represented my generation&r