Last night, Dave Chappelle did two surprise shows at Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco, both of which sold out in about an hour, naturally. Someone who was in the audience told me that he mentioned a comeback no less than five times during his set:
Admittedly, Chappelle does not have an act, so he mostly riffed on current topics and interacted with the audience for about 90 minutes. Still, he was hilarious as always. Perhaps the most shocking thing, outside of the fact that Dave has bulked up considerably and could now be considered ripped, was how much he brought up a potential comeback. He even stated that if he could give one bit of advice to anyone it would be "Don't quit your show!" Dave seems to be "in training," both literally and figuratively, for a comeback.Interesting! It sure wouldn't be tough for Chappelle to make a comeback if he wanted to; I'm sure there are a number of networks that would line up to throw money at him to make another show, seeing as Chappelle's Show was one of the biggest hits Comedy Central ever produced. Also: he's ripped now? Weird.
Of course he's ripped, all of this time off has given him time to work on his Praying Mantis martial arts.
@JoshUng haha, I was just about to watch that movie.
"You have to be ripped to be hilarious." - Carrot Top
Comedians from Carrot Top to Ricky Gervais get ripped, showing that not only is it a thing that happens, but it has absolutely no correlation with how funny they are.
(Dave Chappelle is funny though.)
In addition to flexing his new "guns", Dave seemed to be testing how to approach the comeback component which will obviously have to be adressed if he were to do an HBO special, etc. The man can smoke cigarettes like no other as well.
I'm surprised he hasn't already taken a stab at a comeback. It's been six years, quite a long time.
He's been doing announced stand-up for a while, but I wonder what he means by comeback? Because I don't see him doing another television show unless he has the full creative control that he can only get on HBO or something like that.
I was at the show last thursday starting at 10:30 and he seems to keep extending his stay there, so either he's just really bored or he really wants to try and test the audience for new material. The show didn't end until well into 3am with the club owner pretty much forcing him to shut it down. Great stuff.