Dave Chappelle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But the big one was not going to college because I'm the first person since slavery in our family to make that choice.
Way to go, Dave.
But I ended up moving to New York, and honestly, maybe it was the best education a person could ever get.
But the guardrails of that education was ambitious.
Ambition, not just like really artistic ambition.
I was enamored.
I always looked at comedy like, what else can it do?
And I still experiment with it, which is more dangerous now, but no less rewarding.
This job never gets easier.
It's never not fulfilling, and it's never not challenging.
No, no.
Okay, so the local scene in D.C.
was popping.
Like I said, Patton, who went on to be famous, he was there.
A guy named Tony Woods was one of the big guys on the scene.
BET had just started and it was local in D.C.
So Chris Thomas was doing all these things on BET.
Tommy Davidson was on in Living Color, but he was from our local scene.
Martin Lawrence was just getting big.
But these were all local guys.