Dave Chappelle The Dreamer: Dave's worst work. PLUS Chappelle storms off stage over cell-phone

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Callaroga Shark Media. We got to
talk about Dave Chappelle's new special, The

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Dreamer. It is not good.
I am Johnny Mick with your daily comedy

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news. But before we get to
that, there's other Chappelle news. He

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stormed off stage the other night.
Has that happened? Last Wednesday? Dave

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was at the hard Rock. Fans
had paid over one hundred dollars a ticket.

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There's no video of the incident,
but according to widespread reports, Dave

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Chappelle stormed off the stage after a
man in the audience whipped out a cell

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phone. One fan on social media
wrote, I saw Dave Chapelle the hard

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Rock tonight and he rightfully so dropped
the mic and stormed off the stage.

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My favorite comedian ever, my first
time seeing him so excited, and some

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p is starstar s not sure what
that word's supposed to be. Use your

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imagination. I'm not sure I had
to self insert. Another fan on social

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media wrote, some fing a hole
pulled out his phone at the Dave Chappelle

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show at the Hollywood hard Rock.
It is unclear to me how far into

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the show this happened. Also,
Dave had a few other shows over the

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weekend. Apparently those went fine.
For CNN, Dean Obadalla wrote an editorial

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titled Here's who you should Blame for
Dave Chappelle walking off stage. Dean writes,

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typically, I don't blame the audience
when things go off script, but

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in the case of Dave Schapelle walking
off the stage, blah blah blah.

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In my view, one hundred percent
the fault of the audience member. What

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was it that set Schapelle off?
A cell phone? Not one ringing in

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the audience, which every comedian has
to deal with at some time or another,

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but a person using their phone record
Chapelle's act in violation of numerous explicit

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warnings. Not to what anyone who
thinks this was an overreaction doesn't get is

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that Chappelle and comedians at his level
or not just concerned with getting laughs,

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but also with the business end of
their craft. That's why for years,

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comedians like Chappelle, Chris Rock,
John Mullani, and others have been requiring

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audience members to lock their phones in
a pouch to prevent the recording of the

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show. The measures are partly to
prevent people in the audience from recording new

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material comedian is developing that isn't ready
for prime time. Imagine seeing countless videos

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of famous comedians presenting material that wasn't
any good. Beyond that, there's also

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the concern that if people can watch
a well known comedian's current tour for free

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on a bootleg video, they might
not be willing to pay for a ticket.

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Or people may attend and complain they
had already seen the jokes before.

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But something else is at play.
Here's some famous comedians don't want to be

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recorded in case they say something offensive
on stage that could hurt their career even

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lead to them being canceled. In
a case of Chapelle, however, I

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doubt that was his rationale for being
one of the first comedians require audience members

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to lock their cell phones away during
his show. During his shows, Chappelle's

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history tells us he seems to love
to court controversy even if audience members aren't

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recording Zach Chappelle knows his jokes and
comments will get pressed. Given a stature

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and pension for telling provocative jokes that
sometimes upset people. Onto Dave Chappelle Dreamer,

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I've gathered a few reviews that I
have not pre read other than you

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know, as I cut and paste
them into my working document here that do

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you do the podcast off. I've
seen the headlines and it seems people agree

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with me. Dave Chappelle dreamer,
It's just not good. I think there

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were like eight jokes in the entire
fifty five or so minutes of the special.

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I did laugh out loud at least
twice. I think three times.

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I've explained in the past my psychotic
emperor of rooms and drome that I have.

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So when he went for humor,
it was good, but a lot

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of speech giving the last twenty minutes
is Dave as philosopher or something. Big

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long stories that got in one very
funny punch line towards the end, but

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just not a funny special. And
the front half when he started joking about

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punching down and cycled back to transgender
jokes yet again, Dave, please let

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it go. I was watching it
and I was thinking, this is pretty

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hack. This special has not quite
jumped the shark, but this is this

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at least temporarily knocks Dave way down
the list of comedians that are at the

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top of their game as we head
into twenty twenty four. Here I had

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been frustrated that the special came out
New Year's Eve, so I couldn't incorporate

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it into my Top twenty three of
twenty three list. It wouldn't have made

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it. As I finished the special. I'm like, I couldn't in good

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conscience put this on the list if
I left off things like Jim Gaffigan or

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Mulaney or Bigly Gaffigan, all of
those I did leave off. I'm like,

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I can't put Schappelle ahead of any
of those if I had ranked further.

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Ah. Oh, this is the
thirty sixth the best special of the

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year, maybe by far Chappelle's worst. Sean McCarthy for The Daily Beast writes,

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Dave Chapelle's new Netflix special proves he
learned nothing. Sean writes, it

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feels so frustrating to sit watch comedians
with the stature of Chappelle and Gervaise devote

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so much of their time and energy
to bullying the LGBTQ plus community, where

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they could be doing anything else on
stage, and then they have the temerity

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to question us the audience for not
laughing with them. Cracked under the headline,

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Dave Chappelle mostly moves on from troll
to philosopher In Dave Schpelle's new special,

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it's almost as if he has to
get the you can't tell me what

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to say is out of a system
before we can get to the good stuff.

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I'm not sure the good stuff ever
arrived. Cracked. Minor spoilers here.

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The Dreamers signature bit is a long
story he tells to end the show,

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to tale about the first HBO showcase
when he was twenty two, and

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then details of that story. I
won't spoil it. Yeah, it's a

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twenty two minute story that has three
jokes in it, maybe twenty two minutes.

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Crack rights. There's still no excusing
the handful of trans and gay jokes

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that dot the special half hearted punchlines
as lazy. Yeah, they are lazy

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as they are unnecessarily goading. I
feel like Dave handed in a special and

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didn't have any material. It's like, all right, if I hand it

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an hour, I get a paycheck
from Netflix. It almost feels like that

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there's just there's no material here.
My Google search surfaced a blog by Ian

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Thomas Malone. I'm unfamiliar with Ian's
work, but if you go to Ian

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Thomas Malone dot com The subheading says
Transgender comedian, film critic and podcast host

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Ian writes The Dreamer is a pathetic
mess from a man who simply doesn't care

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anymore. Ian writes The Dreamer is
a lazy victory lap from a man with

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nothing else of value to offer the
world beyond self congratulatory musings on his own

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legacy, a lethargic effort. I'm
solely it fueling the far right grievance industrial

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complex for another week. While Chappelle
claims early on in The Dreamer that the

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controversy wasn't worth the trouble, it's
kind of clear that it was, if

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only for one sad reason. Trans
jokes are pretty much all he's got left.

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There's something fundamentally sad about watching Chappelle
reflect on how hungry he used to

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be while he tries to fill time
in a special and often forgets that it's

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supposed to be funny. Great review
there, I think you nailed it.

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Comedian Shecky Green, passed away on
Sunday at age ninety seven, is a

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really good. Oh bit of Shecky
in The New York Times. I'm completely

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unfamiliar with Shecky's work. Other than
just knowing the name as someone who would

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get referenced when you want to do
name check an old comedian, So I'll

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refer you to the New York Times. Oh bit. There. On Gossip

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Corner, Pete Davidson spotted out in
public with current girlfriend Madeline Klein. They

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were Bobo's Cafe. They were seen
looking at the menu and ordering drinks.

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Boy, that's some gossip. TMZ
says. We're told Pete's a regular at

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the place and he ordered an ice
macho latte before smoking a cigarette outside while

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waiting for his drink. This was
Pete's first sighting after canceling last week's shows.

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Pete is scheduled to play Foxwoods on
January sixth. We'll see if that

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happens. Ricky Gervais has explained why
Netflix didn't bother promoting his new stand up

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special on Twitter or Ricky said Netflix
aren't doing any posters because they can't be

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arst they think it's going to be
huge whatever, and Jim gaff again in

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his weekly post Force CBS wrote his
own oh bit, Jim Wright, So

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I'm not going to use this time
to write about my offbeat good looks.

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What a great father? Was or
my humbleness. I'll let the President do

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that in his impromptu televised address.
Another issue that might hinder the integrity of

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this self memorial is the fact that
I'm still live. Therefore, this memorial

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is certainly incomplete. Sure, as
of today, I'm a grossly undappreciated comedian

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and actor. But maybe in the
future I will be acknowledged. I mean,

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probably not, but I might receive
the respect I deserve. It's possible

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a reviewer we'll be able to describe
one of my acting performances as something other

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than surprising. Then again, I
could have suddenly passed away prior to the

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airing of this commentary. All right, that's your comedy news for today,

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Yeah, Chappelle, I don't know, man. If you enjoy the program,

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A couple of ways you can support. You can go to buy me

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in the tip jar. I'll take
your money. I'll go to the National

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Don't Chain. I'll get a large
iced coffee. I'll drink it. I'll

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shut you out on the show.
The other thing you can do, if

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you're hiptoo podcasting two point zero and
value for value, use the Fountain app,

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throw a couple of SATs in my
way. If you know what I'm

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talking about, you do. If
you don't, it's details in the show

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notes. See you tomorrow.