Devon R B Ah you’re one of those low IQ autistic fucks that think Dave was cloned. If you used your fucking brain you would realize that shit makes no sense.
Comedy might be the only art form where age and aging is a bonus - not a hindrance. I'm sure 20 years from now Chappelle will be even more revered than he is right now.
It is. But it's also true that comedy is the fastest burning art form of them all. You take a lot of years to reach the top, and after that you only have a very narrow slice of time in the top. No one ever manage to stay on top for more than a decade. (Dave quit in is peak, and return just now. You can't count is time off the radar, his career is short at the top)
Doesn’t work that way. Middle age peak performance and creativity. Then it will slowly diminish and go more into old man complaining banter like George Carlin.
So interesting to see his style at such an early stage. His pantomime of a cop bonking someone's head workes a lot better when he does it in Killin Them Softly
Davey Jones but Rodney was not some isolated incident, if you remember there was a lil ol’ group I think called Niceguys With Attitude who made a song before then called “Fuck the Police” and Dave’s bit is about a cop shooting a black man several times not being beaten with a police baton
My mom’s old roommate was Dave Chappelle’s girlfriend while living in L.A. around this time. My mom had a VCR recording of the first Austin Powers movie and showed it to Dave and her roommate while they were over one night. She said after he saw the movie he would camp out in their living room for days and replay the classic over and over again. She said he would do that from time to time, and believed he was trying to escape from all the craziness outside. I like to think he thought the movie was funny and was just trying to study it. Her roommate also told my mom to basically never talk to Dave because anything you’d say would end up in his routine. Anyways, thought I’d share :)
That's really cool and I believe you . If you remember anything else that she told you please come back here and let us know . Maybe she told you what other movies he liked to watch or what he said . For instance maybe back then did he ever tell her he thought he might actually be in the really big time someday ? Personally I think he was probably always learning and studying when he was watching comedy films ... he's checking out everything and taking it all in so he could hone his craft which he obviously did . Think about it because by the time he had his show his voice and his delivery were really funny ... much more advanced than this segment here .
@@fergassnig not sure why that's so hard to believe . I knew Joe Fraser briefly for a while years ago and even prayed with his son Marvis Frazier who also was a boxer for a while . I also knew someone who when he was in college at Temple University knew Bill Cosby because Bill Cosby was right down the hallway and would often stop in their room to test his jokes on the roommates. A friend of mine used to go drinking at the same bar as Charles Barkley and he nicknamed her crazy Peggy because of how funny she was . You think only famous people know famous people ... and what about before they were famous .
Im sure Chris Rock was someone he looked up to while coming up as a comedian In 96 when he played that obnoxious rude comedian in Nutty Professor me at the time being 13 years old not knowing who Dave Chappelle was I thought to myself this guy reminds me of CHRIS ROCK Years later i found out the comedian in nutty professor whom reminded me of chris rock was the one and only Dave Chappelle Much love to the both of them, they're both funny in their own way 🙊
It's crazy how here he adheres more to the more typical stand up pattern of building up a joke and delivering a punch line. Over the years his storytelling became sooooo much more unique and his punchlines sooo much more unpredictable in all the best ways.
Watched this a million times and still funny. weird title tho "He's a well respected comedian" lol. If you like black stand up and don't know who Dave Chappelle is then no one has to explain
What? You must have been born in the 90s. Dave's material in this era was typical... 10yrs later after this, he was ten years ahead. Look up Richard Pryor's material in the late 70s and early 80s. From vibrator sex, cocaine, police brutality etc when most mainstream comedy cracked jokes about mother-in-law...
I found it entertaining when he said "thank you thank you" but no one was clapping, they didn't know they were in the presence of greatness. It's like people not even knowing who Lorenzo von matter horn is.
