The difference between Paper Tiger and Sticks and Stones is that Chappelle’s content actually has bite. Burr’s material, on the other hand, feels toothless.
In a culture that grows increasingly irony-poisoned and irony-fatigued, we’re embracing a brand of emotional comedy that values earnestness over cynicism.
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