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Reading this thread makes me wonder if the OP would have liked it if Dave Chappelle had literally whipped his dick out and proceeded to piss all over the audience.
 
I thought this was a pretty good article on the event.



While the racial makeup of the crowd was incidental, the way they treated Chappelle is not. It speaks to a long complicated history: the relationship between the White audience and the Black entertainer. This is a relationship you can easily trace to early minstrel shows, to archetypes of Blacks that still define the roles we’re offered today. We have seen more Black comedians bow to racist tropes, demean themselves—albeit unintentionally—for White audiences.

Chappelle wasn’t having a meltdown. This was a Black artist shrugging the weight of White consumption, deciding when enough was enough. This isn’t the first time Chappelle has done so and it isn’t the first time his behavior has been characterized as a meltdown.

There is a long history of asking African-Americans to endure racism silently; it’s characterized as grace, as strength. Chappelle’s Connecticut audience, made up of largely young White males, demanded a shuck and jive. Men who seemed to have missed the fine satire of the Chappelle show demanded he do characters who, out of the context of the show look more like more racist tropes, than mockery of America’s belief in them.
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spindashing said:
Not surprised at who created this thread and I'm not surprised at the backlash.

I await your next thread dedicated to Dave Chappelle, Moze.
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for real, OP you shouldve been there with some of your lullaby material to help calm things down for dave

Nibel said:
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...gets me every time
 
At the show now in Pittsburgh. So far Hannibal Burris is the best. Whoever this dude that's up now sucks.

edit: Demetri Martin not my style comedian.
 
Moze said:
Interesting

Everybody will ignore this comment though because you cant say anything negative about Chappelle on here.

I have no idea what i have done to everyone in this thread but they seem to hate me.
I'm out
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OP tries really hard to get people to hate Chappelle.

OP gets himself hated.

OP seems surprised and wonders where he went wrong.
 
Comedy clubs need to protect the art form they're supporting. They should make a rule that hecklers get booted. No ifs, ands or buts. It's like a rowdy fan at a sporting event. Just paying for a ticket doesn't give you license to be a completely asshole. If your actions are disrupting the show, you need to gtfo, period. No one is at the show for the hecklers, or to see the comedian "handle" a heckler. You're there to hear their act. PEACE.
 
Brian Fellows said:
Though these were small venues and the biggest name I've seen is Dave Coulier from Full House.
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Holy shit..did you actually pay money to see Dave Coulier?

Anyway...stand up comedy is fucking awful to see live 99% of the time. I've been to a handful of shows and it's often filled with people who randomly went to a comedy club....or drunk assholes who have an incredibly weird sense of entitlement....or stand up comedy fans, who tend to be really odd and socially awkward people. Oddly enough, while good comics are usually charming and interesting, stand-up comedy super fans tend to be unfunny and off putting.

I think Dave is a really bright guy, and I think history will show him as one of the greats, but he reminds me of a punk band who got huge and now hates their audience. He would be far more comfortable with a cult audience.
 
Moze said:
Interesting

Everybody will ignore this comment though because you cant say anything negative about Chappelle on here.

I have no idea what i have done to everyone in this thread but they seem to hate me.
I'm out
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OP made a thread about Dave Chappelle walking out of stage without providing context or knowing the real story behind it.

People called him out.

Walks out from his own thread.
 
Radec said:
OP made a thread about Dave Chappelle walking out of stage without providing context or knowing the real story behind it.

People called him out.

Walks out from his own thread.
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So it begs the question, just who is handling his respective situation terribly, the OP or Chappelle?
 
MrGerbils said:
I thought this was a pretty good article on the event.
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I wanted to touch on this earlier in the thread, but figured people would dismiss it as unfounded nonsense. He's very aware of mostly white male audiences treating him like shit -- like a chimp on a circus stage who's been told to obey and perform commands by its masters. That's why we have the conflicting reports with some insisting it wasn't that bad. The heckles (minor only on the surface) affect him so much and in a way not obvious to a first-timer in the audience. He's been dealing with this stuff for YEARS and it's worn him down to such an extent that it makes sense why he would call it quits mid-set.
 
Chapelles been a legendary weirdo ever since he walked off his show, like 10 years ago. This is nothing new.
I remember a year or two ago him doing a set where he were basically silent for 45 minutes.
 
Smellycat said:
I know someone who went to that performance, and she said that Chapelle acted very entitled and rude. She said that were only a couple of people in the front who were saying "we love you" and supporting him, and then he suddenly stopped his routine and sat down for 20 minutes smoking and rambling about his mentor/idol. People were begging him to continue and he refused saying there is no reason for him to do so. He said that he has a bottle of water, cigarettes, a towel and a chair, and that he can sit there all night long. "I already got paid. I have your money. I can walk off the stage if I want", to paraphrase what he said.


People started pleading with him to continue his routine and said that they drove to see him from far away. And then he changed his mind and got up to perform and people started cheering for him and saying "we love you", and he said "I changed my mind" and sat back down.
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I hope there's footage of this otherwise it's very hard to take those claims seriously.
 
Chappelle seriously needs to go see Tony Robbins. I'm not excusing what the crowd did or anything, but the fact that a guy who Kevin Hart and Chris Rock called the best comedian alive has to do a tour like this to get paid is troubling, IMO.

It seems like he purposely runs away from money for no good reason. He has a fear of success. That's just the way I see it.
 
Sylonious said:
Chappelle seriously needs to go see Tony Robbins. I'm not excusing what the crowd did or anything, but the fact that a guy who Kevin Hart and Chris Rock called the best comedian alive has to do a tour like this to get paid is troubling, IMO.

It seems like he purposely runs away from money for no good reason. He has a fear of success. That's just the way I see it.
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Success would only take him to where he has already been, and I don't think he wants to be there.

But he enjoys telling jokes, so I don't think he cares where.
 
Alienous said:
Success would only take him to where he has already been, and I don't think he wants to be there.

But he enjoys telling jokes, so I don't think he cares where.
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When you say something like "I only have to stay up here for 25-minutes" that means you don't want to be there. Chappelle shouldn't have to deal with that. Chappelle could do one show, tape it, and sell it on DVD and easily make a couple million dollars a year.
 
Sylonious said:
When you say something like "I only have to stay up here for 25-minutes" that means you don't want to be there. Chappelle shouldn't have to deal with that. Chappelle could do one show, tape it, and sell it on DVD and easily make a couple million dollars a year.
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Without practicing his material?
 
Sylonious said:
When you say something like "I only have to stay up here for 25-minutes" that means you don't want to be there. Chappelle shouldn't have to deal with that. Chappelle could do one show, tape it, and sell it on DVD and easily make a couple million dollars a year.
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Of course he doesn't want to be there getting heckled. Him saying that was a warning to the audience.

People in this thread who have gone to other shows on this tour have said he did much longer than 25 minute sets there.

And it seems that you can't get over the idea that all Dave should want is money. Maybe what he really likes is when he can connect with a good audience? Did you ever think about that? He made plenty of money on Chapelle's Show, and he lives in suburban Ohio. He likely doesn't have to worry about money ever again if he's smart.
 
Maxim726X said:
Speaking of people who aren't funny at all...

Oh, and a pseudo-intellectual pothead to boot. I tried listening to his podcast and couldn't fucking take it.
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Yeah, he seems like a cool guy and all but I can't stand him. Pseudo-intellecual dudebro.
 
I've been to a few comedy shows at the hard rock. And the only one where people keep interrupting was during Bill Cosby.
 
OP heckled and leaves in a thread about leaving as a result of heckling

I don't think Chappelle handled it spectacularly though to be fair. But whatever, hard to see without the context of the whole show.
 
Moze said:
Interesting

Everybody will ignore this comment though because you cant say anything negative about Chappelle on here.

I have no idea what i have done to everyone in this thread but they seem to hate me.
I'm out
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I never imagined this would play out so perfectly. This is now one of my favorite threads of all time. It's art.
 
Jado said:
I wanted to touch on this earlier in the thread, but figured people would dismiss it as unfounded nonsense. He's very aware of mostly white male audiences treating him like shit -- like a chimp on a circus stage who's been told to obey and perform commands by its masters. That's why we have the conflicting reports with some insisting it wasn't that bad. The heckles (minor only on the surface) affect him so much and in a way not obvious to a first-timer in the audience. He's been dealing with this stuff for YEARS and it's worn him down to such an extent that it makes sense why he would call it quits mid-set.
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Yep.

I think as an isolated incident his actions here were unprofessional. but I mean judging it from the perspective of being a fellow human being I'm not mad at him at all for it. Especially when you're Dave Chappelle and in a position to really react this way and have people mostly be on your side.

The Rick James shit isn't just idiots trying to be funny. It's exactly as your described. Guy has been dealing with that ever since the episode aired. I can't imagine how dehumanizing that is. I'd hate fame too if it meant that.

The millions and millions of dollars would help though. Probably alot.
 
Comedy shows are the fucking worst because of the dumbass audience. Every asshole thinks its funny to yell shit out to the performer.
 
MrGerbils said:
I thought this was a pretty good article on the event.
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BS article, Chappelle crapped out at a charity event for Alonzo Mourning 2 years and it wasn't about white people/black people

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Dave-Chappelle--126060348.html

then he blamed it on "seminole Indians" in the front row.

http://www.miami.com/dave-chappelle...ous-moment-during-zo039s-summer-grove-article

I understand Chappelle wants a respectful audience but in this case he didn't just like any other comic will point out sometime in their career it has happened and he walked out. Nothing about white people and enduring racism whatever. The writer did zero research on comics vs bad crowds.
 
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