Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment<br />In “The Bird Revelation,” the first comedy special to focus on the #MeToo movement, Dave Chappelle, sitting on<br />a stool at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in November, pauses to give advice to some comedians in the back.<br />The real headline is “The Bird Revelation,” which addresses accusations against Kevin Spacey, Louis C. K.<br />and Harvey Weinstein with the conspiratorial tone of someone who wants to tell you what everyone (including Mr. Chappelle) is afraid to say.<br />Mr. Chappelle criticizes the “brittle spirit” of the female comic who said Louis C. K.<br />masturbating in front of her hurt her career, before imagining what would happen if Louis C. K.<br />masturbated in front of the civil rights leader, prompting him to give up his movement.<br />But when Mr. Chappelle says some of the sexual assault victims speaking out are now experiencing “buyer’s<br />remorse,” a particularly cruel turn of phrase, this is surely not the funniest thing he can think of.<br />“The Bird Revelation” is one of four specials he released in 2017,<br />and in another of those, “The Age of Spin,” he brings up a rumor that Bill Cosby paid for the microphone that the Rev.
