Dave Chapelle is TERRIBLE now

[pakimahi]

Dave is awesome! The goat.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

He’s still the only comedian that I can watch that has my full attention. He has complete command of the stage, nothing he does feels phony. If you don’t like the message so be it but he says what he thinks. The spur of the moment stuff he nails with a cadence only he possesses.

Overall I find standup comedy as a medium hack, most of today’s comedians just aren’t funny in real life conversations. When you hear them talk on a podcast or whatnot it’s often stale because it’s not a very controlled environment with their jokes.

This. He's a captivating guy, stand up is in a weird growing pain stage right now.

In a world of 20 minute specials consisting of nothing but mostly "one size fits most" crowd work where they offer up podcast level insight

Give me an hr of Dave's effortless stream of thoughts that still works thematically overall

 

[Jesus X]

Equanimity & The Age of Spin are gold.

This one is forgettable.

"For what it's worth" was the last Chappelle special I liked and that came out in 2004.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

I guess I'm going to watch it just so I can form a baseline of people's opinions in here, for future reference lol.

It's a good hr of Dave telling interesting stories, the story with T.I. and Nipsy Hustle is fucking gold.

People want 98-04 era Dave, but I'm more of a fan of his Netflix comeback specials

 

[CasualBot]

"For what it's worth" was the last Chappelle special I liked and that came out in 2004.

The ones i mentioned are gold.
The OJ stories alone are worth it.

Killing em softly and for what's it worth were hilarious but i find they're a bit too goofy now.

 

[William Huggins]

Crack cocaine........... Just say no kids.......

 

[Jesus X]

People want 98-04 era Dave

Yes we do.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

Yes we do.

I like the whole "monk who's willing to self immolate to achieve change" story teller era personally.

His crazy stories are more captivating than most of the other guys' best hr long sets to me, lol idk its all subjective though

 

[Substance Abuse]

He's too woke and conversational for the cans.

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

He's too woke and conversational for the cans.

Pretty much. The Jack Johnson bit, the Mann act. I think there's a lot to like in this new one.

 

[Yoricks Wisdom]

Frankly, he lost me when he was discussing going down on Halle Berry and what he would do if she farted.

Yea, nokay

 

[Jesus X]

Pretty much. The Jack Johnson bit, the Mann act. I think there's a lot to like in this new one.

It is very ironic that he talks about the mann act since his homie diddy was convicted of
"two counts of transportation for prostitution"

What was Sean 'Diddy' Combs convicted of?

The rapper will serve over four years, with about a year of credit for time served since he has been behind bars since his arrest.

www.bbc.com

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

It is very ironic that he talks about the mann act since his homie diddy was convicted of
"two counts of transportation for prostitution"

What was Sean 'Diddy' Combs convicted of?

The rapper will serve over four years, with about a year of credit for time served since he has been behind bars since his arrest.

www.bbc.com

Thematically relevant throughlines from an early bit to one much later in the set, how they needed the "Unstoppable Black man" act

Wonder why he didn't mention that Trump was the one to officially pardon Jack Johnson, he knew McCain voted in favor of it so I thought he would tie it in

 

[Mr.Maelstrom]

The ones i mentioned are gold.
The OJ stories alone are worth it.

Killing em softly and for what's it worth were hilarious but i find they're a bit too goofy now.

Same. Cant watch most of Katts specials now either. Early 00s comedy was a bit too beholden to gimmicks

 

[Sweater of AV]

Lmao. I wonder why TS is upset.




Didn't hear a peep when he was making fun of trannies though.




Still hilarious. Still GOATed.

 

[Shogun515]

I just watched his new stand up and it was mostly just a political rant with a few jokes mixed in. Not my thing but whatever

 

[TheNinja]

Ok, now he's staring to get political....I might turn it off soon..

I thought the same. The first half I was legit lol'ing....then he got into the political rants that just weren't funny. I personally can find anything funny even if it attacks my religion or my political views,etc. They are just jokes. But when they just go on politics without actually being funny, I might as well watch CNN or Fox or whatever. I want to laugh! Dave used to be one of my favs along with Chris Rock and Louis CK. Norm is and will always be my favorite all time though.