Dave Chappelle - "Killin' 'Em Softly"

doing standup in London
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788157

WE MISS U DAVE

"Nicole Simpson can't rap!" might be the funniest moment of the whole series, for my money.

Chappelle once again appeared on Inside the Actor's Studio and in celebration of the shows 200th episode, he humorously interviewed the show's usual host, James Lipton. The episode aired on November 10, 2008 and Chappelle is scheduled to appear again on Inside the Actor's Studio for April 26th 2009.[24]

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Chappelle has stated that he is an avid World of Warcraft player.[29]

Chappelle has stated that he is an avid World of Warcraft player.[29]

^^ I believe this.

and of course the article has comments

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/06/29/news_6128319.html

Dave Chappelle loves World of Warcraft

* By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
* Posted Jun 29, 2005 8:38 am PT

After indefinitely abandoning work on his hit Chappelle's Show, comedian Dave Chappelle absconded to South Africa to escape the fallout. Since returning to the US, he has made several unannounced appearances at Los Angeles comedy clubs, and this week played two little-publicized shows at the Punchline in San Francisco.

At his San Francisco gigs, Chappelle revealed he has also been getting away to a place farther off than Johannesburg--Azeroth, no less. Attendees to Chappelle's Tuesday night show said the comedian voiced his love of a certain popular MMORPG from Blizzard Entertainment.

"You know what I've been playing a lot of?" the comedian reportedly asked the crowd. "World of Warcraft!" When a few cheers broke out, he reportedly responded, "I knew I had some geek brothers and sisters up in here!" Chappelle also was said to have expressed his amusement seeing WoW characters with names referring to his most famous sketches, including a rogue with a name inspired by the famous "I'm Rick James, B****" sketch.

Chappelle is a long-standing and vocal fan of games. Most famously, he did a Grand Theft Auto parody on his highly rated (and now in limbo) sketch series, the second season of which has shattered sales records on DVD. He also reportedly turned down a major role in GTA: San Andreas, although his Chappelle's Show costar Charlie Murphy voiced a San Fierro pimp in the game.

i miss this dude, but i'm glad he ditched the show before it got lame. seemed pretty clear to me he was running out of ideas toward the end of S2 and i felt S3 was pretty weak.

I have had bits from KMS going through my head all week. My favorites are the weed selling baby, his predisposition to liking chicken and the thing about Oscar the grouch. Oh forget it - I love it all.

I actually saw him once in a v small club in NYC in the late 90s where I was one of about 20 people in the audience. He was so fucked he could hardly stand up but somehow still managed to be hilarious.

Will watch tonight and probably return to quote more.

weed selling baby

my wife and I quote/cite this all the time

ME TOO.

All of it is funny even where he brings it back during the thong contest bit.

"Is that . . . is that a baby?" "I snuck in the club!" etc.

Oh I need to listen to this again. It's been far too long.

The bit about Clinton being so famous that someone who sucked his dick became famous too...

"hey suck my dick...there's a future in it!"

"Surprise motherfuckers! You didn't think I knew about grape juice."

i don't know why, and maybe it's kind of homophobic of me, but the first time i saw it, his imitation of george w. as a fiend destroyed me. "c'mon baby, sign the treaty. i'll suck your dick!"

hahaha yes.

Even though this is all pretty old and I've seen it many many times, it's still just as funny to me now.

"What the fuck is juice? I want some apple drink. It's green!"

"I don't want all them vitamins I want drink. Sugar. Water. Purple."

OK also, the Chip character or his "white" voice in general. Awesome.

Ok I'm just gonna put this here cause we can now and because I'm dying over here right now:

"Do you know how hard it is to catch and fuck a monkey?"

OK, also . . . . the masturbating homeless guy on the bus. Dave, I <3 u.

the masturbating homeless guy is a soft spot in the set imo but everything else is so beyond classic

the riff about him standing on the windowsill masturbating is so awesome

grape drink bit is maybe my favorite bit of stand up comedy ever tbh

for people my age chappelle is the defining comedic force of our lifetimes so far easy

mostly everyone i know has seen 'killin them softly' and 'for what it's worth' 10+ times and the chappelle show sketches are just engrained in our brains

I don't know - I think think the masturbating homeless guy has grown on me over time. hmmm.

For me it's a toss up between the weed baby and grape drink in terms of fav bits of stand up, I think.

"Sorry Officer, I...didn't know I couldn't do that"

"Surprise motherfuckers! You didn't think I knew about grape juice."

― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Friday, May 15, 2009 12:49 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"I spoke at my old high school and I told them kids straight up, if you guys are serious about making it out of this ghetto, you gotta focus, you gotta stop blaming white people for your problems, and you've...you've got to learn...how to...rap or play basketball or something n***a, you're trapped! YOU ARE TRAPPED! Either do that or sell crack, that's your only options! That's the only way I've ever seen it work."

"Wrap It Up" = maybe the most brilliant thing I've seen him do but there are so many

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/16/061611-gossip-dave-chappelle-1-2/

Well, I suppose there are lots of people out there who will be willing to pay any price for something new by Chapelle, but I'm not sure how well this is going to work.

Chappelle appeared super-sober, said our source: “People were offering him (marijuana), but he wasn’t taking any.”

After some of the post-quitting TV interviews with more than a few flashes of what looked like classic stoner paranoia, this could be a good thing!

I was pretty disappointed watching reruns of Chappelle's show, some of it still works but a lot of it seems dated now, which is strange since it's only 6 years old. But that stand-up is incredible. Definitely one of the top3 stand up specials I've ever seen. Can't really name a better one right now.

What the fuck is juice? I want some apple drink. It's green.

These are already a little old, but I hadn't seen them before. Dude's even funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbS9jZOlQjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kth0UOU5a_M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWlBgj0uOc

Yep. Just watched all of those last weekend. They're really good.

What the fuck is juice? I want some apple drink. It's green.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:36 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

man i was thinking about this bit the other day for some reason

It's the way he says it, the delivery. It's just hilarious.

i kept hearing "i want that purple stuff...." in my head over and over

"Black people are bad bargaining" chips always cracks me up

Killin' 'Em Softly is the funniest hour any comedian has ever put together, T or F?

TRUE, MOTHERFUCKERS!

Hard to argue with that.

Did I tell the story about how I scared DC out of a Peets in downtown SF in this thread? I still feel bad/embarrassed about that.

the way he says uh-unh seals the deal in the 'black people are bad bargaining chips' story.

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201310/?read=article_ghansah