Watch Dave Chappelle’s special Sticks & Stones: Now streaming on Netflix
By Raymond
Dave Chappelle makes his long-awaited return in his latest stand-up special, Sticks & Stones, now streaming on Netflix.
Legendary comedian Dave Chappelle has returned to Netflix with his latest stand-up special, Sticks and Stones. Filmed in Atlanta, the 65 minute long special was released two days after the comedians 46th birthday and covers a wide range of topics that are sure to make headlines by the end of the week.
An eye-opening set
Fittingly for the set, Chappelle opens up the show by singing lyrics from Prince’s hit single 1999, as the crowd began to sing with him. A heartwarming choice for an artist, who was once parodied on Chappelle’s groundbreaking show, The Chappelle Show, which aired on Comedy Central for three seasons.
Effortlessly, the stand-up comedian transitions into his observational, yet dark humor as he quips that Anthony Bourdain had the best job in the world and still died an untimely death. Chappelle somehow flips that into a joke about his friend who made it and lost everything after a divorce. The moral to this whole bit is that things aren’t as they seem and no one’s life is perfect, even Dave compared his life to an above ground pool.
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Hard life for a celebrity
For roughly 20 minutes of his set, Chappelle discusses how hard it is to be a celebrity in today’s age, due to the fact that audiences are more like “celebrity hunters” than spectators. Celebrities have to be extra careful because they do not want to be the next victim of “Got Ya” culture.
Michael Jackson has been dead for a decade but has two new cases since the Leaving Neverland documentary was released. Chapplle address this by calling himself a self-proclaimed “victim blamer,” in a jokingly sense.
However, when it comes to R.Kelly, Chappelle thinks that the R&B singer probably did it. Dave took time in his special to address Surviving R. Kelly director, Dream Hampton’s claims that he declined being in the documentary because it was ‘too hot for TV’ . The fact is that the comedian does not know the singer at all.
Even other comedians were targets of celebrity hunting season. Chappelle thinks that Kevin Hart was four tweets shy of being perfect which caused him to quit the Oscars. Ironically, Hart stated he wasn’t going to apologize for his tweet, yet he spent six weeks on a press run apologizing for them.
Jussie Smollett and Standards & Practicing
The last portion of his set will probably be the most controversial part and broken down into many think pieces in the coming days. While he was doing Chappelle Show, Standards and Practicing would not let him say certain words on Comedy Central. Their reasoning for allowing him to say certain words and banning others did not make any sense once he explains his reasoning.
Other topics discussed during this bit is his controversies with the LBGTQ community, Louis CK, the opioid crisis, Louis C.K., and various social-political issues going on in America today.
Lastly, Dave Chappelle saved his best material for last when addressing the Jussie Smollett controversy. The legendary comedian is at his best when he’s able to interweave the jokes from the rest of his set into his final joke and he does it with no issues during Sticks and Stones.
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You can watch Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones now streaming on Netflix.