33 Minutes of Dave Chappelle (Updated 2023)

calendar and today's day. role I need an alibi I can't be a celebrity this is the worst thing I'm seeing I can see why I see why the stars are crazy now I went to Disney World with my kids, which is very important to me. I don't get to see my kids as much. I do the Chappelle Show 20 hours a day, sleep for like half an hour, raise my kids for 10 or 20

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and go back to work. Now it's like, hey man, hey, would you mind not calling me? in front of my kids we took a day off even Mickey Mouse did it I said this is the most unprofessional thing I've ever seen R James oh I was fed up I got it with the hook B broke his head off everyone was screaming oh my god oh OMG Mickey Mouse is Mexican before I go I want to share this story with you because it's important to this point I want your community to know that one of the best people I met was a transgender woman and this is not a man I knew who became women.

This woman was trans when I met her. She lived in San Francisco. Daphne Dworman is a name. I would do 18 shows in the Bay Area, sometimes in Oakland and dirty Hood nightclub and she would be there, a white trans woman who laughed loud and loud at everything I said, especially the trans jokes, very disconcerting because she was obviously trans and one night after one of the shows I ran into each other and it turned out that it was a dream to be a comedian and I was a hero. It is very moving. I couldn't dislike someone who felt the same way about me.

We became fast friends and when I did that Sticks and Stones special right when I was coming out, it turned out that she was in San Francisco and I wanted to do a show but I needed an opening act and I remembered this trans woman I had met, so I called her on the phone and I called her myself. I said, Hi dapan, this is Dave Chappelle, I couldn't believe it. that and then I go, I'm in San Francisco and then she started saying a bunch of crazy things, I was like, relax now, I don't want anything, I was um, I was calling because I'm doing a show and I need an opening.

I performed and was wondering if you would open the show and she said yeah I didn't know it at the time but this woman had only done stand up comedy eight times in her life this is little to no EXP experience and now she's about to opening a show for what many call the goat she is an amateur in stature but in practice she was very professional she arrived early which is something I appreciate because I like people to arrive on time she was dressed to the nines I want I mean, I'm transphobic and even I was like, "You look good," I walked up on stage with all the style of a professional comedian, grabbed that microphone and walked right there in the middle and looked at the crowd like a gangster.

You should have seen it work like that. bombed for 45

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straight and I'm not exaggerating young man, that show was terrible, it stunk and then she brings me in and you know, you know it was like a glass of water after a handful of salt, the crowd was happy to see me. killing him, but this is what impressed me: any other comedian I've ever seen, if they bombed as bad as her, she would have snuck out the back of the theater and gone home and cried or something and she didn't do that not only Didn't he leave?

She found a seat right in front, you know, when a new comedian watches an experienced comedian in comedy, we call this taking classes and this took my entire class. She sat there and laughed as hard as she always laughs like she hadn't even had anything bad happen to her and I saw her on the show. Something bad happened to her. She was drunk and started talking to me while I'm on stage, but in the same way that a person would talk to a television when she was alone, she is talking to me. So, that didn't bother me because I knew her, but the crowd didn't like it at all because she stunk and a guy in the back of the room stood up and Dap's hair was dyed blonde at that moment and the guy screamed. and his energy felt wild when he said hi DNE and all the clamp guys who got tense we didn't know he was a Heckler or an active shooter and he said he said does the carpet match the curtains?

Yes, he was up, the whole crowd groaned. because everyone was so bad grandma except Dapan she laughed which was strange and she didn't even look back and said sir I don't have carpets I have hardwood floors just like that guy when she said he blew the roof off of the place cut all the tension with that joke she made up for 45 minutes of a stinking show and after that she couldn't do anything wrong and I kept swinging, she kept talking to me and then the show became something cooler than a show, It just became a conversation between a black man and a white trans woman and we started bombarding all those questions that you think about and would be afraid to ask.

I was just asking. them and she was answering them and their answers were funny as the crowd was falling out of their chairs and and at the end of the show I go oh D I said well that was fun I go I love you to death but I have no idea what you are speaking, the whole crowd laughed except Dapan, now she looks at me as if I am no longer her friend, as if I am something bigger than me, as if I am the whole world and the boy, and she said: "No I don't need you understand me I said what she said I just need you to believe so she says I'm having a human experience and when she said it the whole crowd gasped and I gave her a Fight Club look I said I believe you because she didn't say anything about the. pronouns, he didn't say anything about me being in trouble, he said just believe that I'm a person and I'm going through it and know that I believe you because it takes one to know one, so I said good night to the crowd and they started to turn around. crazy and before the applause reached its crescendo, I said don't forget my opening act.

The crowd stood up and I looked at her and tears came out of her eyes. I couldn't believe it was happening I couldn't believe it was happening because her show sucked, it was a great night. I remember the late great Paul Mooney was there, there was a lot of amazing comedy and we all went backstage and were drinking. and talking, laughing and dancing, he stole the room, she made everyone laugh out loud, spinning the story telling us all these crazy stories about her, we all laughed a lot and while she tells us and everyone laughs, I look at around me and I think oh my God, she's funny.

I took her aside. I said you were funny. I didn't know that when you were on stage. I said you're doing some things wrong, but I can help you. I said any time I'm in San Francisco, why not? Won't you open the program for me and I'll just try to give you some tips to see if you can't figure this out? And she said: Are you serious? I like it, yes, and she grabbed me very hard, hug me, squeeze me and push. She left violently because I am transphobic. I said limits when Sticks and Stones came out.

A lot of people in the trans community were furious with me and apparently dragged me on Twitter. I don't give a damn because Twitter is not a real place and The hardest thing a person can do is go against his tribe if they don't agree with his intent, but Dy did that for me, he wrote a tweet that was very beautiful and what he said was that's almost exactly what he said it takes to hit someone. you should think less about them and I know him and he doesn't, he doesn't hit, he doesn't hit, he hits lines and he is a master of his craft, that's what she said, beautiful tweet, beautiful friend, that took a lot of heart to defend myself like that and when she did, the trans community dragged that all over Twitter for days, they were attacking her and she was holding hers because she's funny, but six days after that wonderful night I described to you, my friend Daphne. she committed suicide oh yeah it's a true story my heart was broken yeah it wasn't the jokes I don't know if it was them that dragged her in I don't know what's going on in her life but I bet dragging her out didn't help .

I was very angry with them, I was very angry with her, I felt like Daphne lied to me, she always says she identified as a woman and then one day she goes up to the roof of a building, jumps and kills herself, clearly only a man would do that. Make a gangster like that. It bothers me so much to hear a joke like that. I'm telling you right now. Daely would have loved that joke. That's why she was my friend. She was reading her obituary and found out that she survived. by a daughter uh and the moment I found out that and this is true Anon Cooper from CNN texted me and everything he said was very kind, he said, I'm sorry to hear about you, your friend and I texted him back. text right away, uh, new phone this, he said, it's Anderson Cooper, I said, oh, I said Anderson, I'm going to look, I need to find his family and he texted me back with all the phone numbers and all this information .

I say this to say if you ever want to know about something gay. Call CNN's Anderson Cooper. This is faster than Google. What I did was I contacted his family and started a trust fund for his daughter because I know that's all he really cared about and I don't know what the trans community is. I did it for her but I don't care because I feel like she wasn't her tribe she was mine she was a comedian in her soul her daughter is very young but I hope she's alive when she turns 21 because I'm going to give her this money myself and by then I'll be ready to have the conversation that I'm not ready to have today, but I'll tell that girl, miss, that I knew your father and she was a wonderful woman, oh.