You have some points there, but there are some crucial (imho) details that I feel like you are just rushing headlong over, which matter. Even so, if you don’t want to watch him, then don’t - it’s as simple as that:-). And I hope you feel free to share your opinion as well, and that we can politely & respectfully discuss that, if you want, as we are doing now:-).
For one, “being cancelled” is not the same as “an attempt was made to cancel him”. Similarly, if he lost out on certain opportunities that he was slated to have - like an opportunity was already extended to him to do something (like host the oscars, or whatever) but then that offer was rescinded - then that would represent a partial rather than full kind of cancelling. In that case, they attempted to cancel him, and did partially manage it by cancelling one of his things, without fully ending either his life or his career. And btw, there was a lot of talk about how Chappelle was basically the first and at the time only person to ever survive such a concerted attempt at being cancelled, so there was likely a lot of fear at the time that he too would become yet another casualty, but then damn somehow he managed to overcome. That was not the expected outcome though - so it’s like all those weather reporters saying that a hurricane or rain is 90% likely to hit an area, but then it does not. Oh well. Even so, was the preemptive warning wrong to have been said in the first place, under those conditions?
And yeah, in any case he’s definitely working the system (or at least attempting to), in order to garner sympathy for himself. But that by itself does not mean that he is lying about the events in question? I am sorry that you feel betrayed but… why assume the absolute worst, especially since as you say, you haven’t even listened to his side of it? Don’t listen if you don’t want to… but since you are talking about it, why not educate yourself about it first?
Bill Maher is indeed a talentless hack - but Chappelle is really good, and worth the investment (imho) to find out if he’s still worth listening to. Steven Colbert you can tell has also become too powerful to be relatable to me anymore - he says things and people just instantly agree, and he’s lost that genuineness that he used to have, it’s so sad, a victim of his own success:-(. It is really difficult to maintain humility when you become successful, and I would say likely impossible to do alone, without help from others in their lives to keep them in check. Jon Stewart managed to do it, but nonetheless it’s so rare.
Fwiw, I don’t watch Chappelle b/c I can relate to him personally - I’m not black for one, nor famous, nor rich, etc. - but I enjoy him b/c (1) he’s funny:-), and (2) he gives me insight into other aspects of life that otherwise I might not understand. e.g. his story about being a black straight man in Texas when a white trans person decided to harass him - THEY can call the cops, being “passing”, and fully rest secure in the knowledge that they will survive the encounter. I said it before but daaaayum, BREONNA TAYLOR WAS SLEEPING!!! I like how he has the courage to say how “the other side” feels about the trans situation, and I like to think that even if I was trans that I would feel the same way, b/c it’s helpful for the back-and-forth discussion process for someone to step up and articulate clearly what the core values are of each side - crucially with the caveat that so long as it is done respectfully. And how he says it is this: YOU can do whatever YOU want, but I should be allowed to do that too.