Lord, Spare Us The Aging Comedy Men

In the wake of Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, elderly comedians are once again complaining that they have to do their jobs.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
4 min readOct 23, 2021

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Jon Stewart, forgotten by time and God himself.
Surely a coincidence that the sign behind him reads “T_RF FEST.” Photo by Ovidiu Hrubaru on Shutterstock.

First things first: What happened at Netflix last week was a labor dispute. Trans employees at the company, most notably Terra Field and B. Pagels-Minor, experienced undue retaliation for…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.