Last year, he earned raves from critics for “8:46,” a heartfelt show on the death of George Floyd and the fraught state of race relations in America. Chappelle, 48, has had a long and celebrated career, winning an Emmy for his 2018 Netflix special, “Equanimity,” and Grammys for albums taken from the Netflix specials “The Age of Spin,” “Deep in the Heart of Texas” and “Sticks & Stones.” In 2019, he won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. With Netflix, what will make it further complicated is that it’s a global company with massive international ambitions.” This is going to happen more and more as society itself wrestles with these issues. “When you’re at the center, everything is magnified 100 times. “Netflix has gone from the underdog and outsider poking the establishment to the epicenter of the Hollywood establishment,” he said.
