Remember Comedy Central in the early 2000s? Well, it’s back, and it’s going on tour. Alright, it’s technically just former Daily Show host Jon Stewart and former Chappelle’s Show host Dave Chappelle who are going on tour, but that should still be enough to stoke the nostalgia fires of anyone who longs for the days of …
A little more than three years ago, Santa Fe’s self-described “court jester” Christian Englander was so incensed by Dave Chappelle’s onstage ribbing of his “sensitive” artist friend, that he decided to defend said friend’s honor. Did this self-styled wag fire back some quips about Chappelle’s relevance, or explain…
Earlier this month, the Grammys announced that Kendrick Lamar would be returning to its stage for what we assumed would be another intense and powerful performance like his showing in 2016. Then, once rumors emerged that Lamar’s performance would feature a couple of special guests—specifically U2 and comedian Dave…
Just to be clear: You weren’t hallucinating. (Or maybe you were, but it had nothing to do with the headline of this post.) Dave Chappelle did already announce one new comedy special, Equanimity, scheduled to appear on Netflix on New Year’s Eve. But today the streaming service revealed that after that first…
In case anyone had been able to forget for even a single blissful second, it’s almost been exactly one year since Donald Trump became our president. Since then, he’s tried and failed to enact a travel ban; tried and failed to keep transgender people out of the military; picked fights with Kim Jong Un, the Bushes, and …
Dave Chappelle is apparently a big Radiohead fan, always ready to hit karaoke bars, birthday fetes, and Saturday Night Live afterparties with his rendition of “Creep.” And should he ever want some back-up vocals, he could probably pluck just about anyone out of the audience, restaurant, etc. But it turns out his duet…
Back in September, billboards declaring that “Netflix is a joke” began peppering the avenues of L.A. and New York. Some thought it might be an attack on the streaming giant, as the company has no doubt fundamentally changed the way we consume media and not everybody is happy about it. Turns out, however, that it was…
It’s been 25 years since Russell Simmons brought his Def Comedy Jam series to HBO, helping launch the careers of Dave Chappelle, Martin Lawrence, Tracy Morgan, Chris Tucker, Adele Givens, Tiffany Haddish, and so many other influential comedians. And all those vets are teaming up to explore and celebrate the show’s…
Income inequality has become an increasingly discussed topic in Hollywood in recent years, as women and members of minorities stand up for the apparently still-radical idea that they should be paid as much as their white or male co-stars. That disparity (and the outrage it provokes) even extends outside TV and movies,…
Dave Chappelle’s Radio City Music Hall residency got a visit from Jon Stewart last night, who, as one of the “special guests” promised in the lineup, addressed both the new, hoodless Klan members running around Charlottesville as well as the Trump tweet that helped birth “Fuckface Von Clownstick.” Stewart veered from…
Back in 2004, a parody of MTV’s Making The Band appeared on season two of Chappelle’s Show, and a much wider audience was introduced to the pure, untethered ego of a rapper who wasn’t afraid to spit hot fire. His name was Dylan.
Dave Chappelle will follow up this year’s comedy specials with a residency at Radio City Music Hall this summer, where he’ll be joined by Donald Glover—in what may well one of his final performances as Childish Gambino—as well as Chris Rock and Ali Wong. Now Consequence Of Sound reports that Chance The Rapper, who …
Donald Glover has already announced that he’s planning to retire his Childish Gambino persona after one more album, and if he really is committed to following through on that, at least he’s planning to do some awesome shit on the way out. According to Billboard, Glover—as Childish Gambino—will be performing at Radio…
Even seasoned comedians like Dave Chappelle and the cast of Saturday Night Live were at a loss for words following the results of the 2016 election. But when the post-election episode aired on November 12, guest host Chappelle still had to deliver a monologue that acknowledged the Trump presidency without totally…
Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga have managed to pull in another big-name star for their upcoming version of the much-remade A Star Is Born. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dave Chappelle has signed on to appear in the film, which stars Cooper and Gaga as Hollywood lovers whose careers take rapidly diverging paths.
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Prince’s passing and, unfortunately, it’s been colored by legal battles and restricted music rather than recollection. Last week, we also lost one of his friends, Chappelle’s Show alum Charlie Murphy. Murphy was always a memorable part of the series, and some might say it was…
Netflix, like God, is both omnipotent and elusive. It knows all about the 500 million hours you’ve spent watching Adam Sandler movies, yet when it comes to providing concrete answers—particularly about its ratings—it can be as blank and inscrutable as the face of a person who’s consumed a half-billion Sandler hours,…
Now that the mere sight of Dave Chappelle holding a microphone is no longer enough to generate excitement, the un-retired comedian must resort to more flamboyant tactics to get the public’s attention. And he picked a pretty good one over the weekend, surprising fans of Chris Rock’s Total Blackout Tour at the Saenger…
“Since both shows were taped before the 2016 presidential election, neither deals at all with Donald Trump and his race-baiting, misogynistic rhetoric per se, but both outings see the comic delving into the politics of sex, race, and gender in ways that dig deeper and carve broader than mere character assassination or…
Dave Chappelle is back for real. That’s the very welcome message delivered this morning by a pair of comedy specials, part of a three-special deal the comic inked with Netflix. Deep In The Heart Of Texas (recorded in Austin in 2015) and The Age Of Spin (filmed in L.A. in last year), come on the heels of Chappelle’s…
