Dave Chappelle - "Killin' 'Em Softly"

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

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201310/img/article_ghansah.png

Kills me every time I see it.

^ just read that the other day. Great piece.

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!"

Millionaire draws-from-photos spot illos for p much every Believer interview btw

Header illos.

Just watched the Popcopy sketch again. It's the best.

"Hell yeah I suck toes. Welcome to Pop Copy"

"My butt itches"

kinda weird that people are still writing stories about the "mystery" of Dave Chappelle

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.

!!!!!!!!!

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.

Got the impression that the 7 crowd maybe sucked