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Dave Chappelle has never hesitated to touch the third rail, knowing that his unassailable craftsmanship can navigate him through plenty of thorny subjects (abject trans hate, excluded).
On Thursday night at the Masonic, Dave Chappelle closed the first of his three last-minute San Francisco shows with a very long story. The anecdote began with a warning from Chappelle about ...
When Dave Chappelle took the stage at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday night, he immediately brought up his controversial Netflix 2021 special “The Closer.” The set drew widespread criticism ...
By The Associated Press Dave Chappelle said Thursday a “genocide” is striking the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war to cheers during his performance in the capital of the United Arab ...
The Dreamer, Dave Chappelle’s comedic nadir, is an exercise in trolling, an attempt at offending, upsetting, and endangering the lives of marginalized people for his amusement. No one is ...
Early in “The Dreamer,” Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special, the audience reacts deliriously to the first of his many jokes about LGBTQ people. Surveying the uproar he’s created ...
Dave Chappelle picked a new target for his latest Netflix standup special: the disabled community. Chappelle's new special "The Dreamer" debuted on the streaming service Sunday, two years after ...
Chappelle is part of a comedy elite that Gary Gulman pokes at. By Jason Zinoman The wildest moment in the new Dave Chappelle special, “The Dreamer” (Netflix), arrives about two-thirds of the ...
In the packed sports arenas that Dave Chappelle performed in around the country this year, his stage was situated at the center of the floor so he was surrounded on all sides by his people. “ ...
Dave Chappelle is clapping back at the critics. The controversial comedian gave context to why he owns millions of dollars in real estate in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in a recent feature in Bloomberg ...
America’s most reclusive comedian isn’t hard to find. Dave Chappelle hangs around downtown, buys coffee and shops like any other resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio. He smokes cigarettes and ...
Dave Chappelle appears to want people to think after trans people protested his show in Minneapolis, that he’s really the victim. On Tuesday, the comedian — who has been under fire for making ...