Dave Chappelle

And my grandfather, her dad's laugh is like music, man.

And I think that's another thing that made me want to be funny, just hearing that music come out of them.

It made me feel joyful.

avenues but you picked comedy so okay yeah or i don't know if i picked it okay so i can't remember a time when i didn't feel like i was a funny guy okay or some kind of equivalent of like yeah i was like that was my thing but i didn't know that was a thing when i was eight years old uh my grandmother had a friend come visit

who was a jazz singer, Johnny Hartman, the famous jazz singer, one of the only vocalists that John Coltrane has ever recorded with.

Beautiful voice, smoked cigarettes, his voice sounded like velvet, so smooth.

And I remember I had just done a book report on Dr. Charles Drew.

I was eight.

And I was thinking, you know, I was going to be a doctor.

And I showed the guy the book report and he goes, man, he goes, that's good.

I'm going to be a doctor.

He goes, nah.

He said, cause I was cutting up all day.

I was eight.

He said, you're going to be a comedian.

And I go, what's that?

He said, well, you know, like a Red Fox or Richard Pryor.

You know who that is?

I'm like, yeah, yeah.

I watch, you know, from Sanford and Son.