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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 16, 2018 13:18:48 GMT
I couldn't find a thread for this but this was some of the most lacerating and insightful comedy I've ever heard - like GOAT level stuff - almost as deep as it is funny, and almost as defiantly individual as possible. I laughed but not as much as I was moved to think about what Chappelle covered here.
The way he broaches 2 stories in the 2 specials and frames them as part of something bigger - the Emmett Till story in the former and the Iceberg Slim story in the later, making a whole lot of great points without hammering them obviously too much.
This was genius level stuff - can't believe I waited so long to see them.
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Post by Viced on Aug 16, 2019 3:07:42 GMT
hyped
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 27, 2019 21:03:47 GMT
The first 10-15 minutes of his Sticks & Stones are as daringly offensive as anything he's done imo. I described the last Aziz Ansari stand up Right Now as a sort of queasy performance art - this is very similar in topic but he takes a blow torch to it where Ansari played nice and gentle (and sad/funny) by comparison.
So many ideas come into this piece that you could accuse others of being lazy - he consistently goes into very believable, very un-PC detours - it's kind of amazing. The only problem is, he doesn't wrap it up great like he did last time with Emmitt Till and Iceberg Slim ......it doesn't run out of gas exactly here, he just doesn't quite stick the landing.
Quite a highwire act for most of it though.....
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Post by Viced on Aug 27, 2019 21:50:53 GMT
As usual... some of the tangents go on for a little too long and he sometimes seems like he's trying too hard to be offensive and nothing else (kind of like Ricky Gervais' recent stand-up at times)... but I'd be lying if I said I didn't laugh my ass off on multiple occasions.
The Kanye West joke got me the most...
Also wish he could've come full circle with a more epic ending. I kept waiting for it... but then it kind of just ended.
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 27, 2019 22:15:54 GMT
Agree with you guys-- Not on the level of the other two, a few notches below even. But I laughed a bunch and definitely enjoyed his straight up daring the audience, and by extension the critics, to turn on him, and they didn't. He even mocks them at one point during his 'second impression' - "That's you!" lol. At some point it seemed like he was just going down the list of hot topics, which is fine but yea I thought he was going to close in a sneaky powerful way - like how he started with Bourdain and then the friend story which he brought together in a punchline both funny and kinda true, you never know what's going on underneath anybody. And that childhood story at the end felt like it was leading up to something like that but bigger, but then he closed out on the lamest joke of the show! What would we think if he called the show Duck Grease ....  |
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Sept 2, 2019 14:36:56 GMT
He's still a consummate comedian, knowing how to craft a joke and perform it as well as anyone. My problem with some of his material lately, though, is that the premises are too cheap and easy. I don't think the topics of any of his jokes are beyond the pale like some do, but I am disappointed that in his half-dozen attempts he's failed to tell a joke about the trans community that I haven't heard from Bart on Facebook*. But on topics that hit closer to home for him, like Jussie Smollett or the opioid crisis, Chappelle maintains a remarkable ability to provide genuine insight and pepper it with laughs just from a mere change of inflection or turn of phrase. Just wish he sought to do at least a little of that on all his bits.
*He actually tells a really good trans joke in his epilogue. The epilogue in general I found more insightful and interesting than his base attempts at being a provocateur.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 2, 2019 14:47:10 GMT
He's still a consummate comedian, knowing how to craft a joke and perform it as well as anyone. My problem with some of his material lately, though, is that the premises are too cheap and easy. I don't think the topics of any of his jokes are beyond the pale like some do, but I am disappointed that in his half-dozen attempts he's failed to tell a joke about the trans community that I haven't heard from Bart on Facebook*. But on topics that hit closer to home for him, like Jussie Smollett or the opioid crisis, Chappelle maintains a remarkable ability to provide genuine insight and pepper out with laughs just from a mere change of inflection or turn of phrase. Just wish he sought to do at least a little of that on all his bits. *He actually tells a really good trans joke in his epilogue. The epilogue in general I found more insightful and interesting than his base attempts at being a provocateur.Like I said I liked it and laughed but without the knockout punch he usually has at the end - which is what always differentiates him as a comedian - being my disappointment - but the epilogue in some ways does work better because it's looser and more casual and maybe he doesn't have to have his foot on the gas pedal all the time. It actually sets up an interesting dichotomy for his next special actually - what will the "next one" look like..... |
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 12, 2020 18:45:57 GMT
New up to the minute (June 6th) Chappelle in it's entirety - well allllllllllright.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jun 12, 2020 19:27:38 GMT
Oh sick, just saw this pop up on my youtube feed too. Definitely gonna check it out soon.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 13, 2020 23:41:33 GMT
8:46 - a quick, angry, smart vent, some of those Chappelle talks about (Chris Dorner) I hadn't heard of so it was kinda informative for me too, and while not really a typical stand-up - though I laughed at Candace Owen being 'so articulate she'll tell you precisely how stupid she is' - it's so strangely right now like is it the very first distributed "performance" where we're seeing masked people and all that....?
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Post by Viced on Sept 20, 2020 18:29:42 GMT
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 20, 2020 18:55:22 GMT
 Stan Lathan (75 y/o) also won his first directing Emmy. He's done pretty much every Chappelle stand-up, and he's been around since the '70s, directing Moms Mabley, Sanford and Son, etc. Not a big deal directing stand up I guess, but he deserved Emmys for two excellent TV Movies in the early '80s, The Sky Is Gray and Go Tell It On the Mountain, so I'm happy for the old dude. |
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 14, 2020 3:10:49 GMT
My dad recommended this to me, like it wasn't four hours and blurry!! Not a legit set, impromptu '09 NYC drop in from 11 to 3am - Chappelle is casual, tired, sushi-seeking, pretty much bumming with the audience the whole time (seemingly a dozen people - he says "You're the little crowd that could") but between the long, long pauses he gets to some good running jokes and one-liners. “You gonna build your whole lifestyle on a hypothetical slice of pizza??” or “This is how we relax in America - we talk dirty in dark rooms.”
The vid is topic chaptered for anyone interested in shuffling around.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 29, 2021 18:59:08 GMT
Yessss
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