<p>Comedian David Spade said after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars and a man recently attacked Dave Chappelle on stage the &#8220;invisible barrier between audience and stage has been broken.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the 57-year-old actor&#8217;s <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/david-spade-netlix-nothing-personal-interview-1235142368/">interview</a> with the Hollywood Reporter, he was asked about the state of comedy amid cancel culture and his reaction to comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-issues-statement-following-dave-chappelle-attack">Chappelle</a> being attacked at the Hollywood Bowl.</p>
<p>&#8220;Since the Will Smith incident, I feel there&#8217;s a change in the air,&#8221; Spade explained. &#8220;The invisible barrier between audience and stage has been broken. But clearly the grace period is over.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think all performers will hit first and ask questions later if someone comes at them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Even if it&#8217;s a juggler, you might get a bowling pin across the temple.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">David Spade opens up about the joke that Netflix didn&#39;t love from his special: &quot;They said, &#39;We don&#39;t think that&#39;ll work as well, but it&#39;s up to you.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wvfQNjtiFF">https://t.co/wvfQNjtiFF</a> <a href="https://t.co/2HhtVmRZMy">pic.twitter.com/2HhtVmRZMy</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1522966714496937985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Later, the &#8220;Grown Ups&#8221; star admitted doing comedy these days has significantly changed.</p>
<p>&#8220;And if you like comedy, and you go to comedy clubs, there&#8217;s people saying s*** you wouldn&#8217;t believe, but they&#8217;re not famous enough to get canceled,&#8221; the superstar shared. &#8220;So in a way, this is your competition. You&#8217;re watching someone better than you because they&#8217;re doing s*** you should be doing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And so it&#8217;s a very tough juggling act,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I just try to be clever. I try to surprise in my jokes and just give an hour of fun without being too heavy, and no one needs to break into discussion groups after my special. Just, &#8216;Hey, that was all right.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Later, Spade talked about what kind of input, if any, Netflix had on his special &#8220;Nothing Personal.&#8221; He said that if executives at the streaming site &#8220;didn’t like&#8221; something he did, &#8220;they would tell&#8221; him.</p>
<p>&#8220;I actually did something that night that I just did off the top of my head, and I don&#8217;t think they made me take it out,&#8221; Spade shared. &#8220;I think they said, &#8216;We don&#8217;t think that&#8217;ll work as well, but it&#8217;s up to you.&#8217; And I love that because ultimately people are gonna get mad at me, but they do shoulder some responsibility because they&#8217;re where people are seeing it. So they&#8217;re gonna get caught in the crossfire. And I ultimately took this thing out because I didn&#8217;t really love the joke. It was sort of offensive — way, way worse than anything in there.&#8221;</p>

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