Netflix is as yet banking on jokester Dave Chappelle to bring the fans and has tapped the polarizing star to open its star-studded inaugural comedy festival.

Chappelle, whose dubious uncommon “The Closer” ignited a firestorm for the streaming giant, will start off the 11-day comedy fest the following spring after the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the occasion’s 2020 debut.

Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival, in view of the streamer’s multiplatform satire brand, will be spread across 25 significant scenes in the L.A. region between April 28 and May 8 and will include in excess of 130 artists, Netflix declared Monday.

Chappelle’s initial gig is charged as “Dave Chappelle and Friends” and will happen at the Hollywood Bowl on April 28. As of Monday, it’s viewed as Chappelle’s first L.A. parody show since he was broadly reprimanded (yet additionally supported) for transphobic and uncaring comments he made in “The Closer,” which appeared in October.

The following aftermath incited a representative walkout at Netflix and prompted somewhere around one laborer being terminated and one more leaving the organization in the wake of pulling out a work objection. It even started furious discussion concerning whether Chappelle’s Washington, D.C., secondary school should name a theater after him.

As a component of the Netflix Is a Joke festival, Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias is set to impact the world forever on May 7 as the first standup humorist to perform at Dodger Stadium, while the Forum in Inglewood will have jokester John Mulaney and Bill Burr’s shows on May 3 and May 5, individually. The recently named Crypto.com Arena (once the Staples Center) will be the stage for joke artist Kevin Hart’s occasion on May 6.

Netflix is additionally anticipating recording occasions including late-night veteran David Letterman, “SNL” star Pete Davidson, “Effortlessness and Frankie” co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin and “Trainwreck” entertainer Amy Schumer, just as an uncommon regarding late parody legends George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers and Robin Williams to be recorded at the Hollywood Palladium.

Dynamic duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will have a discussion at the YouTube Theater on May 7, and Seth Rogen will emcee a four-night live table read at the Orpheum Theater.

The Greek Theater has a few occasions on the agenda, including “Larry David in Conversation” on May 2, a Bert Kreischer gig on May 5 and “Stand Out: An LGBTQ+Celebration.” “Stand Out” will be recorded as a special for the decoration on May 7 and will highlight Bob the Drag Queen, Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho, Patti Harrison, River Butcher, Sandra Bernhard, Solomon Georgio, Tig Notaro, Trixie Mattel and Wanda Sykes.

The celebration additionally flaunts satire stars Ali Wong, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Chelsea Handler, Chris Rock, Conan O’Brien, Ellen DeGeneres, Hasan Minhaj, Iliza Shlesinger, Jerry Seinfeld, John Mulaney, Jonathan Van Ness, Ken Jeong, Dax Shepard, Kevin Smith, Maya Rudolph, Gretchen Lieberum, Mike Birbiglia, Mike Myers, David O. Russell, Nick Kroll, Nicole Byer, Patton Oswalt, Ray Romano, Mo Amer, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson and more.

“It’s absolutely thrilling for Netflix to be hosting a comedy festival of this magnitude in Los Angeles,” said Robbie Praw, Netflix’s director of standup and comedy formats, in a statement. “We were so disappointed to postpone the event last spring and our line-up of comedians can’t wait to bring much needed laughs to audiences in LA and around the world on Netflix.”

Presales for the festival, created by Netflix in relationship with Live Nation, start Tuesday, and tickets go marked down Friday.

At the point when the celebration was declared in March 2020, the arrangement included “Nanette” star Hannah Gadsby, who has since openly quarreled with the decoration over Chappelle, just as the cast of “Schitt’s Creek,” who were partaking in a farewell tour for the Emmy-winning comedy. Neither of them were included for Monday’s lineup declaration.