PSA: Dave Chapelle Has Two New Specials on Netflix

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I'm done with basketball for the night and if this has already been on the board, too bad.  Consider this a friendly reminder of a great distraction.  

Qmatic

March 23rd, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^

Does Chapelle do a Reggie Miller parody in this? Because after having my ears bleed listening to him for 2 hours, that would really help my spirits even more than these $. 99 malt liquor 40s are helping

Matthew

March 23rd, 2017 at 11:17 PM ^

"With all due respect, that murderer ran for over 11,000 yards..." or something like that.

Loved it. Anyone notice how he was always reaching for his shirt looking for a cig? Addiction is a bitch.

Danwillhor

March 23rd, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^

he has a new one in the deal scheduled for December. I recommend both out now though. It's just Chappelle and he doesn't spend any time on political BS or anything were all sick of. Just laughs. Watch them if a fan.

JohnnyV123

March 24th, 2017 at 1:06 AM ^

To this day, Chapelle's Killing Them Softly is my favorite comedy special  so I was really looking forward to this.

Watched the first Netflix one and while it was funny I was slightly disappointed. It's almost like a lot of it was stuff he felt he had to talk about rather than things he observed and made jokes about. Bill Cosby being his crushed idol, Kevin Hart doing Chapelle better than him, his "breakdown", the black community being somewhat against him, and even that dig about Key and Peele.

He made it all funny but he can do better. I'm encouraged to hear the Texas one might be that.

Caesar

March 24th, 2017 at 3:21 AM ^

I thought LA was a borderline masterpiece. Texas had some solid individual laughs, but it wasn't a precisely engineered argument that lured you in, surprised you, and pounced repeatedly--up until the very end. Each individual part of the entire LA show was a surprising piece of a well-crafted, cohesive joke. Blew me away! 

Bp6

March 24th, 2017 at 7:03 AM ^

It's sad that all the snowflakes are calling Dave homophobic, and transphobic, effectively politicizing comedy. The politically correct crowd is ruining everything. Apparently you're only allowed to make fun of President Trump nowadays. Tell a joke about anything else, or offer up positive words for the president and you're a "brown shirt", a homophobe, a nazi", or any one of the several other derogatory terms the PC / sjw police throw around at anyone who disagrees with their views.



Great special if you're not a social justice warrior.

gmoney41

March 24th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^

Who cares if his show was borderline so.  That was 15 years ago, and we as a society weren't even remotely as PC as it is today.  PC culture, especially at universities is why a lot of comedy and comedians are having a much harder time now, and they admit that this is the reason.  People could take a joke and realize that a joke is a joke.  Hell, go watch hilarious reruns of In Living Color, that show was on network, now that show would only be allowed on cable.  The brothers brothers, handi man, vera de milo, men on film, that was some truly funny stuff.  Chapelle like South Park was an equal opportunity offender, and I loved his show for that.  

m_go_T

March 24th, 2017 at 8:08 AM ^

You're the snowflake. No one made any such comments here. In fact, this board is apolitical for a reason (NTTAWWT). You'd be best served to take the types of discussions to Reddit or some random stranger's Facebook page.

Bergs

March 24th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^

Such a refreshing and insightful take!

You know, I think you should go ahead and make thread all about it. The board needs to hear this! Make sure to tag Brian in the title. He's likely to write an article about it if you do!

Honk if Ufer M…

March 24th, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^

Hey, that's mighty white of you to say Bp6! You're right as rain too.

I mean, yes, it certainly is perplexing why people would say such things just because you support the Nazi/Klan/Racist/White Nationalist-Supremacist's candidate that supported him because he catered to them, coddled them, pretended not to know who or what they were, and urged his seething with ignorance and 180 degree misplaced rage crowds to physically attack black people and drive them out of his speeches, and offered to pay the legal bills of those who did so, often based on simply assuming what they stood for or why they were there.

Then he turns Kap into a villain for incredibly mildly making a point that needs to be made a thousand times louder, more clearly, more broadly, more deeply, and more forcefully, tying together all the real reasons why and how that system perpetuates, the same way King eventually tried to do, for which he was slaughtered.

Now we pretend to love MLK, vote for a guy who falsely impersonated him, and still ignore his actual content, analysis, prescriptions or demands.

So what Drumph is saying to him, along with everything else he says and does, says fuck you black America, and fuck your problems that we caused and cause every day in every way, We're just gonna support cops and "Law & Order" even more to crack down on you further.

NinjaDMM

March 24th, 2017 at 8:58 AM ^

I could not get over the "cuts" in the Austin show where his shirt was messed up, then not, then messed up again. God, it made me crazy.

pz

March 24th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^

To me, the Austin one was much more funny, but I was probably in a better mood when I watched it since I turned on the LA one after the game last night...

Jonesy

March 24th, 2017 at 7:35 PM ^

I'll watch these eventually but I have found him to be a lot less funny since he came back from his extended vacation. I'm crossing my fingers.