Dave Chappelle, The Illogical Comedian

Comedy is a monumental piece of our culture today. One specific comedian, Dave Chappelle, uses stereotyping and racism as material for his humor. Chappelle uses the "logic" of what people are imagining in their minds and mocks it. Most of these humorous skits are logical fallacies, most of which are about stereotyping. One example is this logic fallacy in a skit is the "Korean Store Owner Poem." Dave Chappelle here shows a situation where a black man enters a convenience store owned by a Korean man. The Korean store owner tells the black man to hurry up and buy something, suspecting that he is going to steal. This right here is a logical fallacy, the Korean store owner is stereotyping the black man. The black man replies by shouting that he isn’t stealing anything and calls him a “china-man.” Dave shows another stereotype logical fallacy. The Korean store owner then tells him that not all asians look alike. The black man then apologizes and explains how they kind of do. He then says that some people think all black people look alike as well, we call the people the police. This is not the first, nor last, time Chappelle used a logically fallacy in his comedy. In another skit called, "Blind Supremacy," Dave Chappelle acts as a Ku Klux Klan member. The logically fallacy in this is irony. The Ku Klux Klan member is actually a black man, who is blind and thinks that they he is white. Adding humor and logical fallacies makes Dave Chappelle the reason why he is considered one of the greatest comedians in our culture today.