(audience laughing) - the chappelle show redefines sketch comedy. it brought in living color back to the fore, but it even took it further. - i always wanted to say this, for shizzle. (audience laughing) - it passed boundaries that you thought were, woo, we can t touch. a blind, black kkk member? - don t be afraid! i feel the light. (audience laughing) - [desus] chappelle was an amazing show. - he was like so on it with the commentary, but still hard funny, which which is hard to do, man, to toe that line. - mm-hmm. - what black man don t have some bloody gloves on his property? nigga, i got one right here. that don t mean i did anything. (audience laughing) - he s willing to tell it like it is and sometimes what it is, is not comfortable, but his ability to make us laugh at those uncomfortable things, that was a gift. - is this the 5 o clock free crack giveaway? - i feel like dave chappelle can exist
- you come here. yes. - martin was good at being spontaneous. he could come off the cuff and when you look at some of those old def jam performances, a lot of what he did was improvised. i don t know that he ever went out there with a playbook. - i know big bird outta business, but what the (beep) is up? (audience laughs) - def comedy jam was a black comics paradise. - after decades of being told how to behave, what s appropriate, what s okay and what s not okay, black comedians had enough. you will no longer censor me. - we put on the acts that we wanted to see, edgy. - i m so broke, if a nigga robbed me, he ll just be practicing. (audience laughs) - def jam comes along and boom! now everybody knows bill bellamy, adele givens, bernie mac, steve harvey, eddie griffin. so i m grateful for it. how could you not be? - she said, does this (beep) taste like pumpkin pie? (audience laughing) made me mad as hell, i said, don t ask me no damn question like that! i ain t never had no pu
- then she said, even if you sit in a vat of clorox til hell freeze over, you ain t gonna be nothin but black. and she was right cause i sat in the clorox and i got burned. (audience laughing) - although it was really successful, she was the only black female that had a special for a really long time to come. - 2001 was the very important time in black standup because you cannot ignore the sisters in comedy. - the queens of comedy was mo nique, sommore, miss laura and adele givens. and these were ladies, who on their own, were powerhouses. - (beep) these skinny bitches! look at her shakin . bitch, cause you hungry! (audience laughing) - but to put all that power together, it exploded. - oh no, not tonight, mother. (audience laughing) - i think it was just like girl power unleashed. they got together and they showed us women can do it too. - god bless you. keep supporting us. (audience cheering) people don t know that i wasn t one of the original queens of comedy. they had taken
that you forget it was him. just a game i play i- (screams) - we were doing things that were really on the edge. there was some controversy, there was some pushback from fox. - if living with oppression is a sin, then i d be guilty! - [narrator] oppression for black men. if only he wasn t so dark. (audience laughs) - another show that really served up our comedy and our music, our culture, was showtime at the apollo. - for a lot of artists to make a name for themselves, you had to come through the apollo and prove yourself. - and don t you know backwards begin with a b? (audience laughs) - the apollo theater is a very magical place. you can literally feel the energy of every performer that ever performed there. - i was reading about michael jackson cause you know all about the nose, and i don t get it. cause they tell me he can t breathe late at night, just. (shrill vocalizing) (audience laughs)
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