Dave Chappelle says he was ‘shook’ by killing of Charlie Kirk in new Netflix special

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22 Dec 2025 • 5:54 PM MYT
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Dave Chappelle has said he was “shook” by the killing of Charlie Kirk.

In his new Netflix stand-up special, Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable, the comedian said that it is “hard to talk in America”, pointing to the assassination of the conservative activist in September.

“Because if you talk for a living and see Charlie Kirk get murdered that way, I’m gonna be honest, I was shook,” he said.

He also bluntly shut down comparisons between Kirk and Martin Luther King Jr, calling it a “reach”.

“You know, they both got murdered in a terrible fashion. They both got shot in the neck. But that’s about where those similarities ended.”