Dave Chappelle is the Funniest Human Being on the Planet!!!
So on Sunday, I''m poking around the Ticketmaster site, and happen upon Dave Chappelle's name. It's for a Monday show, and I check the tickets-sold out. Then I scroll down a little further and see that there is also a Tuesday night show-so I check the tickets-they are available! So I buy one and call my dad and tell him to pick up a ticket for himself. It takes him a couple hours to get home, and by that time, the tickets have sold out. So now I'm going by myself, but I don't care-because it will be worth it.
Cut to Tuesday night-I'm waiting in line and I'm only 5 people back. I'm hoping to get a front row seat, but as we go in, it turns out I get a seat kind of the to the side-but it turns out it's right on the path where Chappelle is to be walking past at some point in the evening. I'm waiting for the show to start, and just looking around the club, which is small-there isn't a bad seat in the whole place. From where I'm sitting, I'm about 15 feet from the stage. I'm looking around and happen to see comedian Doug Benson standing to my right. I assume he's just there to watch, but it turns out he's the opener. He was pretty funny. Mostly stoner jokes, with a few good hooker jokes thrown in. His funniest bit was him looking over his list of jokes that he is going to tell and telling us that he has a good one coming up, so we have that to look forward to. His delivery made it funny. So he does about 20/25 mnutes and he introduces Chappelle. Chappelle walks right past me, smoking a cigarette, and heads up to the stage. He proceeds to do a great hour of solid comedy. It's clear that he's not working from a pre made list of jokes. He's just saying whatever comes into his head. He had a lot to say about his current situation, and why he pretty much quit Hollywood. He's fed up with the lies, the deceiving, and the bullshit that goes with it. He is hilarious from the moment he gets on stage, to the moment that he walks off. Dave Chappelle is the funniest man on the planet. He is so smart, and so quick that he doesn't need jokes-he just talks and everything he says is hilarious. So as he's winding down he starts talking about how there are so few "major" players out there who take the time, or have the discipline to hit the road and go out on stage. He then tells us that Chris Tucker is here, and he wants to do some material for us.
I always had the notion that Chris Tucker was an asshole and a jerk. Turns out I was wrong, Chris Tucker is hilarious, and a genuienly nice guy. His Michael Jackson impression is great. He can talk, sing, and dance just like the King of Pop. It turns out he is friends with him and had a lot of good insight into the man. He was completely honest with the crowd, telling them about his struggles, and why he isn't doing any more movies lately. He's just looking for a good script. He asked the crowd whether or not he should make another Rush Hour, or another Friday-since that what everyone is hounding him for. The crowd was behind him, and very surprised to be in the presence of such a well known movie star. As he exited the stage, I threw my hand out and he shook it-so that's always exciting. Dave Chappelle came back on the stage and said thanks to the crowd and thanks to Chris Tucker. Then he looked at his watch.
He looked at his watch, and then at the crowd, and said that he had nowhere else to go, and nothing else to do-and the then proceeded to do another hour or so of completely improvised comedy. He was just asking the crowd what we wanted to have him talk about, and whatever people said, he had good bits of hilarity for them. An especially hilarious thing he kept doing throughout the evening was whenever he said anything funny, he would bang the mike on his knee, a stool, whatever was close. You could tell he was having a good time and completely in his element. He was as open as any person could be to the crowd. He told us a story about getting a blowjob from a girl wearing a motorcycle helmet, and when he was wrapping up, he banged his elbow on the helmet. Genius. He also told us about the Tony Danza-where you nail a girl from behind, and when you're just about done, you punch her in the back of head and tell her-Who's the Boss?!? Hilarious. He had a great bit on hearing someone take a gross shit in the bathroom and waiting around to find out who it was. Great stuff. All in all Dave was a totally honest and hilarious comedian who didn't want to stop talking, but had to because the club had to close. As he walked off the stage the second time, the crowd gave him a standing ovation. He walked past me, and again, I threw out my hand and he shook it and I gave him a pat on the back. A great end to a great evening. It was the best comedy show I've ever been to, and will probably ever go to.
Cut to Tuesday night-I'm waiting in line and I'm only 5 people back. I'm hoping to get a front row seat, but as we go in, it turns out I get a seat kind of the to the side-but it turns out it's right on the path where Chappelle is to be walking past at some point in the evening. I'm waiting for the show to start, and just looking around the club, which is small-there isn't a bad seat in the whole place. From where I'm sitting, I'm about 15 feet from the stage. I'm looking around and happen to see comedian Doug Benson standing to my right. I assume he's just there to watch, but it turns out he's the opener. He was pretty funny. Mostly stoner jokes, with a few good hooker jokes thrown in. His funniest bit was him looking over his list of jokes that he is going to tell and telling us that he has a good one coming up, so we have that to look forward to. His delivery made it funny. So he does about 20/25 mnutes and he introduces Chappelle. Chappelle walks right past me, smoking a cigarette, and heads up to the stage. He proceeds to do a great hour of solid comedy. It's clear that he's not working from a pre made list of jokes. He's just saying whatever comes into his head. He had a lot to say about his current situation, and why he pretty much quit Hollywood. He's fed up with the lies, the deceiving, and the bullshit that goes with it. He is hilarious from the moment he gets on stage, to the moment that he walks off. Dave Chappelle is the funniest man on the planet. He is so smart, and so quick that he doesn't need jokes-he just talks and everything he says is hilarious. So as he's winding down he starts talking about how there are so few "major" players out there who take the time, or have the discipline to hit the road and go out on stage. He then tells us that Chris Tucker is here, and he wants to do some material for us.
I always had the notion that Chris Tucker was an asshole and a jerk. Turns out I was wrong, Chris Tucker is hilarious, and a genuienly nice guy. His Michael Jackson impression is great. He can talk, sing, and dance just like the King of Pop. It turns out he is friends with him and had a lot of good insight into the man. He was completely honest with the crowd, telling them about his struggles, and why he isn't doing any more movies lately. He's just looking for a good script. He asked the crowd whether or not he should make another Rush Hour, or another Friday-since that what everyone is hounding him for. The crowd was behind him, and very surprised to be in the presence of such a well known movie star. As he exited the stage, I threw my hand out and he shook it-so that's always exciting. Dave Chappelle came back on the stage and said thanks to the crowd and thanks to Chris Tucker. Then he looked at his watch.
He looked at his watch, and then at the crowd, and said that he had nowhere else to go, and nothing else to do-and the then proceeded to do another hour or so of completely improvised comedy. He was just asking the crowd what we wanted to have him talk about, and whatever people said, he had good bits of hilarity for them. An especially hilarious thing he kept doing throughout the evening was whenever he said anything funny, he would bang the mike on his knee, a stool, whatever was close. You could tell he was having a good time and completely in his element. He was as open as any person could be to the crowd. He told us a story about getting a blowjob from a girl wearing a motorcycle helmet, and when he was wrapping up, he banged his elbow on the helmet. Genius. He also told us about the Tony Danza-where you nail a girl from behind, and when you're just about done, you punch her in the back of head and tell her-Who's the Boss?!? Hilarious. He had a great bit on hearing someone take a gross shit in the bathroom and waiting around to find out who it was. Great stuff. All in all Dave was a totally honest and hilarious comedian who didn't want to stop talking, but had to because the club had to close. As he walked off the stage the second time, the crowd gave him a standing ovation. He walked past me, and again, I threw out my hand and he shook it and I gave him a pat on the back. A great end to a great evening. It was the best comedy show I've ever been to, and will probably ever go to.
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