Dave Chappelle
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He loved his brother so much.
But what I learned that night, because he was always a villain in movies, he was hilarious.
He was like an artful storyteller.
His stories had all this texture.
And then one day on the set, we were doing some sketch, and...
Charlie is telling us all these stories about coming with Eddie.
And in the middle of lunch, he goes, someone said something about Rick James.
And he said, man, I fought Rick James on five different occasions.
And, man, he started telling us all the times in every story he beat up Rick James and all this.
And, man, we were dying laughing.
And we pulled him aside and said, man, can we do that on the show?
He said, wait, wait, you want me to beat up Rick James on the show?
I'm like, not really.
And we just had him tell the stories, and we dramatized them.
And now you think, you know, and as we're shooting it, I'm like, hell, this is like...
Because we were on set dying laughing.
And then here's the kicker, then we're on the set and Charlie goes, I bet you I can get Rick to come for this.
And he did, he did.
We ended up doing one sketch with Rick James and then another sketch about Prince.
And I asked Prince to do the sketch and he was like, no.