America Taught Dave Chappelle That Millionaires Can Sharecrop Too
The comedic giant’s streaming beef echoes the disenfranchised and challenges the privileged. Where do you stand?
What separates Dave Chappelle apart from his peers travels further than him being today’s #1 comedian. Yes, he writes and performs stand up better than 98% of the human race. And yes his POV beams so brilliant that at times society gets introduced to undiscovered angles of itself. But the creator of the Chappelle’s Show no longer needs jokes to captivate an audience.
Today, Dave Chappelle stands as one of our generation’s greatest storytellers. Like a 1973 Bordeaux, his skill for crocheting hilarious details into luminously poignant tales has aged exquisitely whilst refining consumers. He has the command to make us hold our breath for eight minutes and forty six seconds as he reps for George Floyd. He can stalk a stage being as entertained by his own material as us or sit hunched on a stool for 60 minutes. Regardless of his posture, our attention remains erect.
Earlier this week, he uploaded to his website, Unforgiven, an 18-minute soliloquy that exposed the poor ethics behind his Chappelle’s Show contract. It concluded with the savant declaring war on Comedy Central and its parent company, Viacom…
