Dave Chappelle - "Killin' 'Em Softly"

there was just one camera iirc? cameras have gotten so good that one halfway competent wedding fotog could have filmed it imo

there were crowd shots cut in too, so I assume at least one other camera?

yeah there were definitely a few cameras

I'm guessing they're filming a one-hour special from these Ohio shows, and it doesn't hurt them at all to have this outside the paywall.

idk this feels like a one-off thing to me, will all this stuff be topical 3 months down the line? plus it's a half-hour set that's gotten a zillion views already so idk if you can just repackage it again

will all this stuff be topical 3 months down the line?

.....yes?

The Player Hater Awards sketch is a classic.
― earlnash, Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:29 AM (sixteen years ago)

Wish there was more of this. Just love when he says "the most diabolical haters this side of the Mississippi".

I hadn't watched that in years, and it was so sad to see Charlie Murphy and Patrice O'Neal there in the same scene. RIP, they were hilarious.

The voice Chappelle does is just so brilliant, I could listen to audiobooks read by him like that.

I hope the bad things of the world happened to you and only YOUUUUUUUUUU

Yeah, that's my other favorite bit.

Can't get that voice out of my head when I'm reading and I can't decide how I feel about that.

iwill all this stuff be topical 3 months down the line?

Yes.

Chappelle's show headed to Netflix as of.....well...today!

nice

watched a few eps of Chappelle's Show this weekend which was a bizarre experience since I've seen them all a dozen times but not since like, 2005. still funny but man I forgot how many very specific references there were to 2002-2004 pop culture stuff, like idk how I'd even explain some of this to a younger generation. the "lost season" where a couple of the bit guys wound up hosting the show while Chappelle was MIA was such a bizarre moment. I wonder how Dave felt about that.

Imagine a show now that would have expected its audience to have watched the modern equivalent of "Making the Band"

I wonder how Dave felt about that.

He wasn't happy about it. At the time, he called the airing of the "lost" episodes a "bully move."

there's a long bit on "Unforgiven" about what happened with the show and how he got screwed over and it's riveting listening but it's also pretty difficult to see this guy as a victim. like when he does these jokes about how we shouldn't stream Chappelle's Show because he doesn't get paid or "you will never get your money back" about when he bombed in Detroit are we supposed to forget that he's insanely rich & has been one of the most successful and well-known comedians on the planet for over two decades, despite literally disappearing for something like 12 years?

Was it really 12 years?

I was calculating the length of time between Chappelle's Show and the Netflix specials, I forgot he did that tour with Flight of the Conchords in 2013. I guess his real public comeback was SNL in 2016, where he said "I'll give Donald Trump a chance"? (which I know he says he regrets, still a monumentally stupid thing to say)

When was his Block Party thing, 2007?

2005, during Chapelle's Show

its kind of weird to think about that now, given how much of his persona today is just not giving a shit about anyone or anything

random question, anybody know why there's one ep of Chappelle's Show that's not available? like even though it's streaming, there's one episode missing - the only sketch I remember from it was "what if the Internet was a store?" or something like that.

it'll never come back now that Ron Jeremy is in it, but it's been gone since before that indictment.

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