Dave Chappelle
New ‘Chappelle’s Home Team’ Netflix Series On Deck, Opens With ‘Earthquake: Legendary’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lester Cohen / Courtesy of Netflix The much-anticipated series of comedy specials executive produced by Dave Chappelle will air on Netflix, starting off with veteran comic Earthquake. Chappelle’s Home Team is a series of stand-alone comedy specials, all with Chappelle serving as the executive producer. Each special, which will air on Netflix, features a comic who he has worked with in the past who possesses over 30 years of experience on the comedy stage. The first of these four specials to make its debut is Earthquake: Legendary. This special showcases the hilarious comedy of Earthquake, a D.C. native who has been a fixture on the scene for decades notably with BET’s Comicview, and is a recurring character on CBS’ The Neighborhood along with hosting his ...
Dave Chappelle Blasts Ohio Council “Clowns” Over Affordable Housing Plans
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty A recent council meeting in Ohio was the stage for Dave Chappelle to blow his lid and chastize council members and threaten to pull his business investments – all over plans for proposed housing development in the town he calls home. According to reports, the comedian was present at the Yellow Springs, Ohio village council meeting on Monday (February 7th) which was convened to discuss the plans to rezone an area in the town to make way for a housing development to be built there by Oberer Homes. The initial plan was for the 53-acre area to contain single-family duplexes and townhouses, with some set aside to create affordable housing. Chappelle, who is a fixture in the audience at council meetings, went to the microphone to vent his fr...
Patton Oswalt Defends Performance with Dave Chappelle, Says They “Disagree About Transgender Rights”
Patton Oswalt ended 2021 with a surprise performance alongside his longtime friend Dave Chappelle, and he began 2022 by justifying that decision. In an Instagram post on Sunday, January 2nd, Oswalt defended his friendship with Chappelle, apologized for not considering “the hurt this would cause,” and said he and his old pal, “100% disagree about transgender rights & representation.” Oswalt closed out the year with a performance at McCaw Hall in Seattle, while Chappelle did the same at the nearby Climate Pledge Arena. As Oswalt wrote in a January 1st post, he “Finished me set at @mccawhall and got a text from @davechappelle. Come over to the arena he’s performing in next door and do a guest set. Why not? I waved good-bye to this hell-year with a genius I started comedy with 34 years ago...
Patton Oswalt Defends Last-Minute Performance With Dave Chappelle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @pattonoswalt / Instagram Patton Oswalt performed with Dave Chappelle during a New Year’s Eve show, and he did what he did. The star comedian and actor took to Instagram to defend hitting the stage with his longtime friend, while noting he doesn’t agree with his homie’s stance on the LGBTQ+ community. In case you missed it, the Chappelle criticism has been exponential since his last Netflix special, The Closer, where his rhetoric about the LGBTQ+ community led to many calling for his cancelation. Although that isn’t happening, the anti-Chappelle backlash has remained consistent. Related Stories But nevertheless, many are standing with Chappelle, including Oswalt, who explained that he got a call from Dave saying he was performing nearby, so of course he c...
Foo Fighters’ Historic Madison Square Garden Concert Streaming for Free: Watch
On June 20th, 2021, Foo Fighters took the stage at Madison Square Garden to play the arena’s first full-capacity concert since the beginning of the pandemic. Featuring surprises, unmissable moments, and three full hours of material, the blistering, emotional, cathartic performance was later named one of our favorite live shows of the year. Highlights included an opening solo rendition of “Times Like These” by Dave Grohl, segueing into a full-band performance of “The Pretender”; a surprise appearance by Dave Chappelle, who sang a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep”; and a high-energy version of Queen’s “Somebody to Love” with Taylor Hawkins on lead vocals. For the night’s encore, Foo Fighters embodied their Dee Gees alter-ego for a cover of Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” and then closed t...
Netflix Is a Joke Fest Featuring Dave Chappelle, John Mulaney, Larry David Debuting in Spring 2022
After being pushed back due to COVID-19 concerns, the inaugural Netflix is a Joke: The Festival is now going down next spring from April 28th through May 8th across Los Angeles. Taking place across 25 venues, the comedy festival’s lineup is stacked with huge stars, many of whom already have Netflix specials or shows. Dave Chappelle will lead a showcase on April 28th at Hollywood Bowl, while John Mulaney and Bill Burr will each headline a show at the Forum. Meanwhile, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will hold a conversation at the YouTube Theater, and Gabriel “Fluffy” Iglesias will make history as the first standup comedian to ever perform at Dodger Stadium. Other big names include David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, and Chris Rock. There will also be an LGBTQ+ Celebration event s...
Dave Chappelle’s High School Moving Forward with Plans to Rename Theater in His Honor
Dave Chappelle’s high school is moving forward with plans to rename a theater in his honor despite a contentious meeting between the comedian and some of the school’s students during an event last week. The Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC “stand[s] behind our decision to honor the wishes of our co-founder, the late Peggy Cooper Cafritz, to name the theatre after Chappelle,” reads a statement from the school released on Monday. Last week, Chappelle made an unannounced visit to his alma matter ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. During a Q&A with students, the comedian faced questions about his recent Netflix special, The Closer, which included controversial comments about the transgender community. Advertisement Related Video Politco, which was the first to report new...
Dave Chappelle Returns To High School Alma Mater Amid ‘The Closer’ Controversy
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Dave Chappelle continues to stand in stark defiance of the critique raised after his latest Netflix stand-up special The Closer went wide. After being told he was no longer welcome, the Washington, D.C. native returned to his hometown to visit his alma mater and was met with jeers and tough questions from the student body. POLITICO provided a detailed account of Chappelle’s surprise visit to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, with the famed comedian hosting an hourlong Q&A session on Tuesday (Nov. 23) that found him being called a “bigot” by one student and complaints of his visit from some of the parents of the students. In response to the 16-year-old student who called him a bigot and reportedly said that Chappelle ha...
Dave Chappelle Called a “Bigot,” Drops the N-Word During Contentious Visit to His Old High School
Dave Chappelle had a contentious encounter with students of his old high school during a surprise visit earlier this week. According to Politco, Chappelle stopped by Washington, D.C.’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts on Tuesday, where he handed out free Thanksgiving dinners and gifted tickets to his new documentary. However, during a Q&A with students, the comedian was faced with questions over his recent Netflix special Closer. In the special, which was released in October, Chappelle made several jokes about transgendered people, defended J.K. Rowlings’ anti-trans comments, and went as far to declare himself “Team TERF” (TERF is the acronym for a trans-exclusionary radical feminist). His comments were met with immense criticism, and members of Netflix’s LGBTQ+ community staged a wal...
The Surprises, Snubs, and Changing Rules for This Year’s Grammy Nominations
On Tuesday morning, the Recording Academy revealed the full slate of nominations for the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Over the past few tumultuous years, the Recording Academy has overseen changes in leadership and nominating procedures, with one more twist being announced just this morning before the nominations were unveiled: the Big Four general field categories (Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist) would grow from 8 to 10 nominees each. This is the second expansion in recent years, with only five nominees in those categories through 2018. The 10 nominees for Album of the Year include on-again-off-again rival superstars Kanye West and Taylor Swift. West, who was nominated for Album of the Year for each of his first three albums, has not been in the...
Dave Chappelle’s Alma Mater Delays Renaming Ceremony Over Backlash
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty The uproar over Dave Chappelle’s recent comedy special, The Closer has caused him some headaches. And apparently, that backlash has hit closer to home as it has affected a planned fundraiser event meant to honor the comedian. According to reports, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in the Georgetown neighborhood of Chappelle’s hometown of Washington D.C. has quietly delayed holding a fundraising event meant to rename the theater after him. The event was to take place on November 23rd, but administrators decided to hold off over concerns from the student body over some of Chappelle’s commentary in the Netflix special that took aim at the LGBTQ+ community and his unapologetic position over some jokes directed at the trans community. R...
Dave Chappelle Uninvited from High School’s Fundraiser: “They’re Canceling Stuff I Didn’t Even Want to Do”
Dave Chappelle hasn’t been cancelled, and there’s lots of evidence that for the rich and famous, cancel culture doesn’t exist. But the comedian does continue to receive pushback for the bigoted comments he made in his recent Netflix special, The Closer. As the IndyStar reports, he was uninvited from a fundraiser being held by his old high school, though Chapelle responded by saying, “They’re canceling stuff I didn’t even want to do.” Chappelle joked about the fundraiser Friday night in Indianapolis after a screening of his new documentary Untitled. He made several references to being ‘cancelled,’ using the high school fundraiser as an example and complaining that he “can’t even raise money for children.” Claiming moral superiority, Chappelle told the crow...
