Yep. Just watched all of those last weekend. They're really good.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
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
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's the way he says it, the delivery. It's just hilarious.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
i kept hearing "i want that purple stuff...." in my head over and over
― yologram (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Black people are bad bargaining" chips always cracks me up
― Grime Scene Investigation Unit (admrl), Thursday, 19 April 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Killin' 'Em Softly is the funniest hour any comedian has ever put together, T or F?
TRUE, MOTHERFUCKERS!
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 April 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Memorial Highway (admrl), Thursday, 19 April 2012 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
the way he says uh-unh seals the deal in the 'black people are bad bargaining chips' story.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 April 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201310/?read=article_ghansah
― 乒乓, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201310/img/article_ghansah.png
Kills me every time I see it.
― pplains, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:47 (ten years ago) link
^ just read that the other day. Great piece.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
I still giggle like hell every time I see the Pop Copy sketch.
"Some people ask 'why? why treat the customer this way?'. Why? Cause FUCK EM, that's why!"
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 15:12 (ten years ago) link
Millionaire draws-from-photos spot illos for p much every Believer interview btw
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Monday, 14 October 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
Header illos.
Just watched the Popcopy sketch again. It's the best.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 14 October 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
"Hell yeah I suck toes. Welcome to Pop Copy"
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
"My butt itches"
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
kinda weird that people are still writing stories about the "mystery" of Dave Chappelle
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
I mean that piece was good but I didn't learn anything I already know/added nothing
catching the tour in town tonight. I don't know how we got so lucky.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
We saw the 9:30 show, which was dangerous bc he did a 7 show earlier tonight. He came out and admitted that he'd been drinking a little, which was noticeable in the beginning. But then he just absolutely killed it. So wonderful.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 March 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
Got the impression that the 7 crowd maybe sucked
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 March 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
still a fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 9 July 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
watched the new Netflix special and laughed a lot, with some reservations about some of his stereotyping stuff (which, tbf, is probably his intention). He attempts to walk a very fine line all the way through it, swinging (very self-consciously and openly) towards stuff he knows will be offensive one second and then veering back to the audience's comfort zone the next. For example, equating Manny Paquiao with MLK via a "what if MLK had a Nike shoe endorsement" joke (Chappelle's take is that they would both lose their endorsements because their both controversial, while eliding the implied equivalency of Paquiao's homophobia w MLK's activism). A more obvious example is a bit that skewers a stereotypical gay Hollywood producer type, but is paired with a bit making fun of a rich redneck Texan. And there are bunch of rape jokes (OJ, Cosby, etc.) It's compelling in its audacity but I wasn't on board w all of it.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 March 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
I thought the Cosby/OJ stuff came off better, if only because he was coming from a place of liking those guys in the first place
― Dominique, Friday, 24 March 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
yeah I agree and even my wife laughed at the "ice cream" joke re: Cosby. the meetings w OJ framing device was good.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 24 March 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
part 1 > part2, but I had heard many of the part2 jokes
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 24 March 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
The man.
― orientmammal, Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link
word on these specials has been dire from all my friends. i'm surprised they were taped in April 2015 and March 2016
― flappy bird, Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
i laughed a bit but i confess i was hoping to laugh a lot harder. and the rape/gay stuff seemed kinda tired and not worth the really long stories. he seems happy and healthy though. maybe that's bad for comedy...
i do like him and his delivery and he's just really good at it but some of the material didn't seem to justify the length of the stories like the one about his kid at school and the sandwiches. cosby would have made that story work better actually.
― scott seward, Saturday, 25 March 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
part 2 def better then part 1. he seems a bit bored in part one. part 2 is sparkier. but i think its a weird time for a comic like him. peoples rules for what is acceptable have changed so much. you either have to be a comfort humour kind of comedian like aziz ansari (i cant think of anyone else as a better example right now) who is often just helping the audience feel superior in their beliefs, or you can be like chappelle, and skirt a very thin line between pissing people off, and not troubling their belief systems. people want to laugh, but they dont want to be seen laughing at stuff they deem ethically troubling, or, they think laughing = agreeing. generally people are worried what their laughs say about them. either way, there were maybe too many rape jokes, hes gotten more sexist and homophobic as hes gotten older, but i also see these shows kind of as chappelle trying to piss off liberals. so maybe a case of the wrong targets, but either way, hes still funny.
― StillAdvance, Sunday, 26 March 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Birbiglia is another comfort humor type
― “Yeah. Huh, thanks.” (los blue jeans), Sunday, 26 March 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Funniest bit to me in the whole two hours was Dave taking his son to see Kevin Hart's arena show.
Disagree that the Austin half was better than the Hollywood half. He seems like he was winging it half the time in Austin, and he could probably pull that off 15 years ago, but it didn't work out so well now.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 March 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Gaffigan (who I like a lot) is kinda the playonic ideal of the 'safe' comic imo
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 26 March 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
Yes. "Oh thank you so much Mr. Hart, we haven't eaten in HOURS!"
I'm still having difficulty getting used to looking at swole Dave, it's so off-putting. Was also very distracted by his constant placing of foot upon monitor during part 2. In part 1 he was all about the slow belly rub through his weird jacket with the C embroidered on the sleeve. Dave, I love you, I think you're a terrific guy, but you have clothes like a fucking dickhead. Still good at jokes though.
― del griffith, Sunday, 26 March 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
i watched these both last night, they were pretty great. i liked the whole analogy where knowing some kids are starving in China doesn't do anything for you if you are hungry. you are still going to be hungry. also putting on an argyle sweater =/= getting a good loan at the bank that was pretty good. felt like a lot of his identity politics jokes were about deconstructing the power dynamics. it was refreshing to see a comedian talk about that stuff wo it being the usual whiny tired self-victimizing "It's so hard for comedians/why is everyone PC these days?" angle.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
the transphobia and "pro-life vs anti-responsibility" line or whatever that was were pretty huge bummers for me
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 March 2017 20:30 (seven years ago) link
how so? the person was super drunk and exposing themselves at a party. Dave called them out on it.
if the word "Tranny" is triggering to you, then yeah, i could see how this would be a bummer. but that whole bit was about people being upset by his response in the first place!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
that bit actually bothered me when I saw him live because he basically was casting shade against being respectful and referring to the individual the way they preferred to me ("why do *I* gotta change my pronoun game?") and using "well her dick is out" as a 'lol not REALLY a female, see' laugh.
p sure Dave isn't anti-trans or gay, doesn't mean the joke wasn't mean-spirited though. it bothered me a little more when I saw him because he said something like "gay people had a good year, give them a hand", and then me and like maybe 5 other people cheered and everybody else sat silent but of course erupted at the gay/transsexual jokes.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Dave though has always had some lame opinions and has also been known to get historical facts way wrong, but usually he tended to keep a lot of that out of his comedy.
that said, I did like the first special.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
also "tranny" is considered a slur in most circles
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah, thinking back on the special, i can see there being a lot of stuff in there that can be seen as against the cause. still i didn't think anything he said was hateful. he is from an older generation now, he's using older references.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link
i liked when the guy asked him why he wasn't doing a boycott and he said he'd been boycotting for 10 years
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
his pettiness about key and peele is off-putting
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
he is from an older generation now, he's using older references.
He's five months older than me. I don't do that shit.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
wasn't this like a 5 second joke?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, March 26, 2017 7:15 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
did you quit your Comedy Central show too?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
it is possible to acknowledge that we don't think Chappelle is actively campaigning to impede LGBTQ rights and concede that he may actually be in favor of them while also acknowledging that the jokes were in poor taste.
it didn't ruin my overall enjoyment of the set but it was v uncomfortable during that one particular part.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
"wasn't this like a 5 second joke?"
he mentions it in interviews. how he feels weird when it says "created by key and peele" on their show because obviously he created what they did.
although i think the richard pryor show came first....
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 March 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link