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The two and half years that the Chappelle’s Show ran on Comedy Central was the highlight of Black Gen X comedy (no shade to In Living Color but even they weren’t as quotable as Dave).
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Especially his last Netflix special, Sticks Stones, most of which came off as a rant against how hard it was to be famous, not exactly the kind of humor that helps the everyday fan forget about their problems for 47 minutes.
Ironically his latest special, entitled 8:46, which dropped last night on the YouTube channel Netflix Is A Joke, actually brought back the Dave Chappelle that transformed comedy for a generation 15 years ago.
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The 8:46 special is named for the amount of time former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd’s neck until he died.
Chappelle inserts himself into the last 100 years of Black history and African American struggles of police violence, with passion and some resignation.
