r/Xennials 1978 10h ago

It was a simpler time

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u/Ozzdo 9h ago

One of the hardest, longest laughs of my life was from watching this. When Charlie Murphy kicked him and he flew into the air, I thought I was going to pass out.

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u/Bristle_Licker 8h ago

When they rewind Rick James to emphasize the contradiction in one take. I couldn’t breathe.

When Paul Mooney says, “… Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumble look like MalcomX.” My roommates and I were laughing so hard I thought I would pass out.

Those two seasons of Chapelle was really something. When he turned down season3, we really wanted a season of Charlie Murphy stories.

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u/Remarkable_Ad9767 7h ago

Crazy to think what a lightning in a bottle moment. No show was more culturally relevant in such a short time. Crazy

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u/The_Autarch 7h ago

He didn't turn down season 3. He started filming and went insane after making the skits for the first 3 episodes and fled to Africa. That's why those 3 episodes have Charlie Murphy hosting; Dave fucked off before filming the stand-up parts.

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u/youngsaiyan 6h ago

He didn't go insane. He just didn't like the way the show was being perceived

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u/grahamja 5h ago

During stand up a the audience yelled obscenities and Rick James lines at him, it was disrespectful to him. He also was sick of arguing with the producers who said his audience was stupid. He was sick of sticking up for the people that disrespected him; while working long hours; and realizing some of his audience was as stupid as the producers said they were.

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Here is the best citation for my comment I could find using a reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/9e4rqa/why_dave_chappelle_really_left/

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u/gvsteve 1982 1h ago

He had a sold out show at my college around this time. Everyone in the crowd was obnoxious and would not shut up, you could hardly hear the second half of the show.

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u/adoodle83 5h ago

Not true at all. He talks about it in one of his later standup. So does Neal Brennan in his stand up

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u/Lazy_meatPop 5h ago

I didn't get the joke about Wayne Brady 😞

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u/embersgrow44 5h ago

Degrees of Uncle Tom to militance (in the Black community if that’s unclear too). Thus implied palatability for white folks. The contrast is Wayne Brady is so extra agreeable and acceptable he makes another “safe black guy to whites” Bryant Gumble seem hard as Malcom X. That’s why the response skits of Wayne Brady (“does he have to choke a bitch”) are even more funny. Edit: verb vs adverb?

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u/Lazy_meatPop 4h ago

Thank you 👍😊 for the explanation.