Dave Chappelle
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Podcast Appearances
He had the intro where his man goes, ladies and gentlemen, the most two beautiful words in comedy, Richard Pryor.
Man, man, crowd goes nuts.
And he goes out there, and you could tell early on that this was not his night.
And maybe 30 minutes into his set, he stops, and it's something I wouldn't even know you could do.
He looks around and he goes, look, he goes, I want to do this for you guys, but he goes, I'm not feeling well.
He said, I'm sorry.
He goes, I don't got it in me tonight.
I'm sorry.
Just like that.
And, man, you could hear, like,
like a pin drop.
And then this guy in the back of the room jumps to his feet like that.
He jumps up, he goes, we love you, Richard.
And the place exploded.
Longest, loudest ovation.
Like, man, it went on and on and he stood there.
And then, okay, I'm young, right?
But then I realized what I'm looking at, that this is his last show for them.
They probably will never see him live again.
And people were crying and wiping tears out their eyes.