"The Closer" is worse than the least of the Bill Burr specials. I don't think Bill Burr is a comic genius or anything, but his approach to high-voltage cultural subjects is the same (both Chappelle and Burr make a point of walking audiences up to and across taboo subjects; it's a flex, winning audiences back after losing them to a line like "Space Jews"). I do like Bill Burr, but before this special I would have said that Chappelle is categorically better at this kind of comedy. Now he isn't. It's sad.

Parker Molloy wrote a piece about how "The Closer" isn't transphobic, just tired and unfunny. In it, they quote another comedian asking, "oh, so we can just steal edgy jokes from Reddit now?" That about sums the whole thing up.

Ahaha, well said. I saw the special and enjoyed it. Still, it wasn't legendary like his other work, but some of it was pretty hilarious.