America Taught Dave Chappelle That Millionaires Can Sharecrop Too
By: Fghjh Tytys
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America Taught Dave Chappelle That Millionaires Can Sharecrop Too

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What separates Dave Chappelle apart from his peers travels further than him being today’s #1 comedian. Yes, he writes and performs stand up better than 98% of the human race. And yes his POV beams so brilliant that at times society gets introduced to undiscovered angles of itself. But the creator of the Chappelle’s Show no longer needs jokes to captivate an audience.

Today, Dave Chappelle stands as one of our generation’s greatest storytellers. Like a 1973 Bordeaux, his skill for crocheting hilarious details into luminously poignant tales has aged exquisitely whilst refining consumers. He has the command to make us hold our breath for eight minutes and forty six seconds as he reps for George Floyd. He can stalk a stage being as entertained by his own material as us or sit hunched on a stool for 60 minutes. Regardless of his posture, our attention remains erect.

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Earlier this week, he uploaded to his website, Unforgiven, an 18-minute soliloquy that exposed the poor ethics behind his Chappelle’s Show contract. It concluded with the savant declaring war on Comedy Central and its parent company, Viacom. There were funny bits, but few jokes. He offered a couple of stories from different periods in his life. Each demanded its own space and identity yet remained loyal to the theme: violation. He took us full circle, beginning with his first year as a teen comic who was bullied out of a joke by an adult comic. He moved some years forward, when a three card monte con artist cautioned him to “never come between a man and his meal.” These two flashbacks were set up for his gripe with Comedy Central. The network, along with HBO Max, has been streaming Chappelle’s Show ever since Dave hosted SNL the night Biden was projected to secure election. According to Dave (and his agent), he has no voice in the matter. He also won’t receive a penny of the new streaming revenue.

Dave reflected on a corporate room full of Comedy Central suits encouraging a broke comedian whose wife was with-child to sign a “terrible deal.” He spoke on foreign contract vocabulary like “likeness of image” and “perpetuity” as dressed up slave holdings, and punctuated his point with the fact that although his deal with the network was predatory in nature and essentially a lifetime sentence, it was standard and legal. Then Dave held up that mirror and paralleled his multimedia enemy with that of the Me Too movement. Not to be taken literally, he was referencing a mentality that allows those with a certain power and privilege — not to exclude economic status — to disrupt, violate and possibly ruin the life of someone with less. Whether the gap is money, notoriety, physical strength or civil rights, in the United States especially, the lesser someone has the greater chance that they become prey.