Dave Chappelle, host, (Half Baked, Con Air, Undercover Brother) performs a
monologue at the beginning of each show and then introduces several
pieces of sketch comedy. At the end of the show, the musical guest performs,
usually a really sweet rap group.
Dave really presses the envelope with some of his sketches. One of the
most hilarious Chappelle’s Show sketches was a parody of MTV’s Real World.
When Dave introduces the sketch, he explains that MTV always puts one black
guy in a house with a bunch of crazy white people. In this sketch, Dave
puts a really square white guy in a house full of crazy black people. His
girlfriend gets stolen, his dad gets stabbed, and eventually he freaks
out and leaves. I’m glad there’s somebody out there who isn’t afraid to do
this kind of stuff. I don’t know how Dave gets away with some of the things
he puts on his show.
Other sketches include “Trading Spouses”, where a white family and a
black family switch dads, “Ask a Black Dude”, and a sketch about a "black
white supremacist" - a Klu Klux Klan leader who is blind and doesn’t know he’s actually black. If you can’t
handle a ton of really offensive jokes, don’t watch Chappelle’s Show.
Despite Chappelle's raunchy language and racially-based humor, I think
he's actually doing something positive. By exaggerating the conditions of
the relationship between the races, he emphasizes the fact that our
prejudices don't have to exist. Take Clayton Bigbsy, the black white supremacist,
for example. He hates blacks but he is actually black himself. It really
proves a good point.
The best part about Chappelle's show is the fact that he pushes his
jokes to the limit. A crackhead flushing himself down the toilet to escape a
drug intervention? You won't see that on any other show. I was very
impressed by the raw, in-your-face style of this program. It’s refreshing to see
some really immature, politically incorrect sketch comedy in the midst of
all the mediocre cookie-cutter shows I’ve been seing lately.
Chappelle’s show is airs 10:30pm on Wednesdays. The new season starts
January 21st.
Check out the official website:
Chapelle's Show
by: Jason Swett
