Dave Chappelle's new YouTube special '8:46' is timely, powerful stand-up.
“Why would anybody care what their favorite comedian thinks after they saw a police officer kneel on a man’s neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds?”
Early this morning Dave Chappelle released a furious, righteous, impassioned monologue on the murder of George Floyd and the protests that have sprung up throughout the country.
Chappelle’s looseness greatly helps in this case. He mentions that he normally wouldn’t release something this hastily put together, but the whole spur-of-the-moment feeling about this video—like he’s not performing stand-up but just pouring out his heart and mind about the fucked up world we live in—is a huge reason that it makes such an impact.
Anyway, “8:46”—which, as Chappelle points out, is also the time of birth on his birth certificate—is a reminder of stand-up’s power, and something pretty much everybody should watch. And it’s also benefiting
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