Dave Chappelle

I never looked at it like that.

I always thought it was corporate interest and culture negotiating itself.

So, you know, most of those people who were critical of what I was doing didn't seem like they were of it.

It's like they had their faces pressed against the glass commenting on what we were doing in there, but they weren't in there doing it.

And I think I spoke to you about this earlier.

Every opinion you can think of,

is represented in a comedy club.

Every type of person you can imagine does stand-up comedy, transgender stand-up comics, black, white, Asian, every kind of perspective.

And we all champion, whatever opinion we champion, we would never think to silence one another.

We might duke it out on stage in the sense of like, if someone says something racist and I get mad, I'll be like, yo, put me up next.

because I don't want to say something about what he said.

But silencing that person wouldn't be anything.

And then after the show, we'd all be upstairs drinking.

And we might still talk about it or argue about it, but that's our life, and we're artists, and that's what we do, and we have this outlet.

So for a media outlet to speculate on a comedy show that they weren't at or misinterpret a joke or, you know, nothing makes a comedian madder than reading his joke wrong in the paper.

And reading a joke is nothing like hearing one or being one.

And the intention of a comedy show is a very unique intention.

We are playing with whatever the culture is made of.

And we break it down and we get it right or we get it wrong.

But in all art, if it's going to be good or even hopefully great, you've got to have a margin of error.