the masturbating homeless guy is a soft spot in the set imo but everything else is so beyond classic
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 May 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 May 2009 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 May 2009 04:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Noooo! Cats are not for eating!!! (ENBB), Saturday, 16 May 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"Sorry Officer, I...didn't know I couldn't do that"
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"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."
― plate of dinosaurs (San Te), Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Wrap It Up" = maybe the most brilliant thing I've seen him do but there are so many
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 August 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/06/16/061611-gossip-dave-chappelle-1-2/
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 16 June 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 16 June 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― mh, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 June 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
What the fuck is juice? I want some apple drink. It's green.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
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
― pplains, Thursday, 19 April 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 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