Dave Chappelle surprises Hartford, apologizes for wishing it would be destroyed
Last year Dave Chappelle headlined Funny Or Die’s Oddball Comedy Tour, during which he had a notably disastrous set in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. Barraged by hecklers yelling out “Rick James” and other clever Chappelle’s Show references, Chappelle left the stage after a terse 10 minutes. The next stop in Chicago saw Chappelle ravage Hartford, wishing that a nuclear bomb be dropped on the city by North Korea, and continually lambasting the “young, white alcoholics” that had derailed his set days earlier.
This past weekend, the Oddball tour made a return trip to Hartford—and surprisingly, so did Chappelle, where he took the opportunity to apologize to the city he’d wished such ill will upon just a year ago. Saying he’d regretted his behavior almost immediately, Chappelle explained how the anxiety that carried over to his Chicago date was just like a mousetrap in a vagina: