Dave Chappelle appeared as a shock warm-up act at Chris Rock and Kevin Hart’s packed Madison Sq. Backyard present Saturday night time — the place he riffed about “cancel tradition” and his latest on-stage attacker.
The controversial comedian, who was pressured final week to transfer a Minneapolis present amid backlash, quipped that his LGBTQ-bashing jokes have made him such a pariah, “I needed to sneak my means in right here,” in line with The Hollywood Reporter.
Wearing a Nirvana T-shirt and smoking a cigarette throughout the transient opening set, Chappelle addressed an incident wherein a 23-year-old bisexual rapper tackled him on stage with a weapon at LA’s Hollywood Bowl in Could.
The under-fire funnyman mentioned he hopes accused attacker Isaiah Lee will get monkeypox in jail —“not that he ought to die, however his ass ought to itch for 4 to 6 weeks.”
However Chappelle, 48, admitted that his earlier wisecrack that Lee “was a trans man” following the kerfuffle had bombed, fueled detrimental media consideration and “arrange one other two-day information cycle.” A budget shot had been a reference to warmth the comic caught for “trans-phobic” jokes in his Netflix particular.
Chappelle additionally ribbed his bodyguards for “sporting costume sneakers on the job” throughout his Could stand-up set, griping he would have been safer in the event that they weren’t “sliding everywhere like at a bowling alley.”
Rock and Hart additionally poked enjoyable of “cancel tradition,” with Rock addressing the slap he was given by Will Smith on the Oscars.
“Anybody who says phrases damage has by no means been punched within the face,” Rock quipped, sparking roaring laughter.
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