Dave Chappelle

It’s been a strange few weeks for Saturday Night Live. Two weeks ago, during a night hosted by Madame Web actress Dakota Johnson, cast members Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman distanced themselves from Dave Chappelle when the transphobic comedian crashed SNL’s goodbye segment at show’s end. Then, last week, the show laundered Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s racist Civil War denialism. Now, America’s premier sketch-comedy series has decided to welcome Shane Gillis to host. Back in 2019, SNL announced…

Dave Chappelle has won his fifth Grammy for best comedy album and second in a row for What’s in a Name, a 40-minute Netflix special taken from a speech at his former high school, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, where he defended his controversial 2021 special The Closer, which won the comedy album prize at the 2023 Grammys, and expressed support for freedom of expression. With his win at the 2024 Grammys, Chappelle beat fellow nominees Wanda Sykes (I’m an Entertainer), Sarah Silverman (Someone…

Trevor Noah is returning to host the Grammy Awards for a fourth time — but this is the first time he is hosting as a nominee. Noah earned his first nomination for best comedy album at the 2020 show with Son of Patricia, losing to Dave Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones. He’s battling the comedy king again on Sunday, alongside other Black icons: Chris Rock (Selective Outrage) and Wanda Sykes (I’m An Entertainer). All of their specials aired on Netflix; Sarah Silverman’s Someone You Love, on HBO, round out…

Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer, the comic’s seventh stand-up special for Netflix, opens with a quote about the nature of success by Henry David Thoreau before capturing the comic in stark black-and-white, moving through the crowd in slow-mo (cigarette in hand, naturally) to Radiohead’s “Daydreaming,” like a championship boxer before a fight. We’re at the Lincoln Theatre in Chappelle’s hometown of Washington, D.C., the very place where he filmed his first stand-up special, Killin’ Them Softly, 24 years ago. Quite a lot’s…

Dave Chappelle has dropped the trailer for his new Netflix comedy special The Dreamer, out on December 31. On Sunday, the comedian released a trailer for the special, featuring Morgan Freeman delivering one of his trademark voiceovers as Chappelle takes the stage. “What do you dream about? Not the ones when you go to sleep; the ones you hold in your heart,” Freeman asks in the teaser. “Don’t be intimidated by the audacity of your dream. Be inspired by it.” The trailer then cuts to Chappelle and Freeman…

Talking on the Town podcast, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos—who, host Matt Belloni pointed out, has been reluctant to divulge ratings and audience numbers in the past—explained the timing of yesterday’s “What We Watched” engagement report, including why it’s taken Netflix so long to offer this level of data transparency.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI Unlocked“At the beginning , we did not want to lay out the breadcrumbs for future competitors. And also, it really did resonate with talent really positively,…

Elon Musk has had a strained relationship with California and the Bay Area in particular these last few years, especially since the company moved to Austin, Texas.Photo: Christian Marquardt - Pool (Getty Images)A judge told Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his attorneys that, no, the court won’t move his upcoming securities fraud trial out of San Francisco even if there’s a dwindling number of people in the Bay Area with a positive opinion of the Twitter owner.On Friday, federal judge Edward Chen rejected the claim that the jury…

After recently making transphobic remarks, Twitter CEO Elon Musk got booed by the crowd when he appeared onstage with comedian Dave Chappelle who has been repeatedly criticized for his own transphobic remarks.Musk appeared in Chappelle's show on Sunday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco, reports The Verge.During Chappelle's set, the controversial comedian presented the controversial billionaire who entered the stage to confused applause and boos.Videos of Musk's appearance immediately appeared on Twitter.The…

Screenshot: TwitterElon Musk, who was booed mercilessly by a stadium full of people on Sunday during a Dave Chappelle stand-up show, has deleted tweets that sought to explain away the jeers. Musk had claimed the crowd was “90% cheers” and that there was a fight in the audience that stopped him from speaking normally, both apparent lies that were deleted by the billionaire late Monday. And Twitter users took the opportunity to absolutely eviscerate Musk over his unbelievable claims.Musk, now the second wealthiest person in…

Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle on stage in a surreptitiously recorded video at Chase Center in San Francisco on Sunday night.Gif: Twitter / Cleo PatrAElon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd in San Francisco on Sunday night after he was invited onstage by comedian Dave Chappelle. And the footage is pretty rough, even if you don’t particularly like Musk.“Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for the richest man in the world,” Chappelle said…