Dave Chappelle, cigarette dangling from his gape, hands a swooning youngish lady in the front row a jangling highball. With a smile: “Bill Cosby says ‘Hello.’” Raucous laughter.
That was just three years ago. And that joke, the most sanguine of the night’s offering, barely registered on the radar of the Woke.
His new Netflix special, “Sticks & Stones,” starts with a febrile naughtiness. Like the hallucinated grin of a friend in whom the mushroom “soup” is taking hold, Chappelle…