The Impact of Chappelle's Show | Joe Rogan & Donnell Rawlings

Fix Mel Gibson's dad was 92 and he was in a wheelchair and now he's a hundred and he's walking around What's the issue with stem cell situation in America's? I don't hear too much the last time and I'm not probably as knowledge as you are, but wasn't um Christopher Reeves trying to Promote more stem cell research. I'm sure he was yeah. He had that spinal cord injury from horse horse accident He was doing those horse jumps Yeah South Park thing remember I don't remember Eating dead babies to like get the stem cell They're the best They're also pushing the boundaries like they're the ones out there that are promoting like ridiculous preposterous comedy That's completely offensive, but brilliant That's one of the things that when we were doing a Chappelle show The one of the things I appreciate more than anything about this show was how it brought people of all races your backgrounds Together to do the thing that we all should have in common and that's to laugh and also to not push the button But touch on racial stuff without having an angry undertone and that's what's so fucked up about America now whenever you talk about race it feels like one side somebody has to be tense Yeah, you know say it's never like a comfortable stage never like and I know things are intense But we have to be able to laugh first once you get people to laugh You can talk about whatever you want and then even if a person is not in agreement or have the same thoughts At the end of day you should be able to respect that person and I think those same people should be able to share laugh yeah, and there was a fun silly Non-aggressive quality to the way you guys put together sketches that got the point across and everybody laughed everybody laughs But when I joke to this to this day when I travel I do my audiences It's interesting because of course you would think I'm gonna draw a certain audience because I'm black which I you know Which I am and I do but it's weird I could go to places and it's straight up like Dave call him the muddy boot motherfuckers You know I'm saying like the muddy boot motherfuckers the muddy boots to jump they got John Deere, right? You know I'm saying they know all that oak shit you talking about You know them John Deere is no all that shit. They probably call it right now say no Joe I think you got that wrong you got to cut the heart from this You know you got to go left to right you know I'm saying and I've noticed I have those people And then I have hood people But it's just interest when you can look out and this is what that show did when you can look on the audience And you say you have all of America there. It was the best sketch comedy show in the history of television I think I think in living color is very very very overlooked people forget how goddamn Raking and groundbreaking it was right in both of them like it's wherever I go people always They always bring it up as a big point of my career, but I was like every 10 years every 15 years comes a time where The audience wants something different yeah, they sick shit watered down Yeah, same way when in living color same way with Def Con the gym came out You know you didn't see a lot of Black stand-ups on TV, but they had this underground circuit It was bubbling that was bubbling and it was it was the right time when they pulled out the right time and living color comes around It's the right time yeah, the day Chappelle show comes around It's the right time to Richard Parrish show even though that only lasted three or four episode It was the right time and it caught on at the right time yeah in terms of like heartbreaking sketch comedy shows though like that that that KKK bit where he had the Let me tell you something do you understand in the history of sketch? Nobody has premiered a sketch show and came off so hardcore The first night it's hard as hard as it comes when they ended that shit when when we asked why Why after all these years Would you so so it was like because? She's a nigger lover I Was like I was like that was one of them that was one of the joints I'm like wake up everybody almost sleep it in I knew from that moment that this show was gonna be on the next level Yeah, well was he was free it was so many more when we did funny thing a lot of things I Used to do I was a warm-up comedian for a chappelle show So whenever you saw a chappelle show episode and if you notice that whenever I came on screen And I'm not being cocky people would go nuts They'd be like oh shit and the reason was because I was a guy did one of the audience before Dave came out So I knew if I go gut the room out at the beginning People don't even people don't even they didn't nobody knew I was anything if I ripped that at the beginning and do when they See me on the screen. It's gonna be like it's gonna be big You know worse. Yeah, and and and that show man. It was just like It was just a lot of things to happen that show people like the Rick James sketch The day we played that during the wraparound man that shit hit so hard. I was like this shit is Crazy crazy funny thing people don't know is that Comedy Central did not like that sketch I Central Here's this funny. I'm essentially like sketch and commie said you didn't think Charlie Murphy was funny in it and I watched we ran that shit sick just to let you know the directional people think I was a shit six times and every time Man, every time you heard Dave say I'm Rick James bitch. It was gut son. It was gut son Yo, what did the five fingers say to the face? Whizlance I had a sketch was getting kids to spend it in school Right, he was going to school to teachers what the five things they say. I'm Rick James, bitch All right time you suspended for a week you and Dave Chappelle go to the fucking timeout room is one of the most iconic Sketches of all time how wrong was Comedy Central? I mean not just a little wrong All the way wrong all the way wrong like almost like suicidal it was like hmm, but then it goes shows like it goes show You know how you have a vision with something you see it. Yeah, everybody may not see it Well, that's the problem with working with executives, too, right? It's like their visions different than your vision They'd like to shape you in a certain way and you know and I know Dave ran into problems with them wanting them to change Language so they could get more sponsors. Yeah, I think I think that That wasn't an issue and to be quite honest. I don't know exactly what happened. Everything is speculation You never talked to him never talked to him about it because the reason why I never talked to him about it Because I didn't need to talk to him about it. You know I'm saying That show was great for me. It was a great great platform for me and then It was more important my friendship and how he felt away from that was more important Then so why did you leave right? Where'd you go? Yeah First time I saw him like as long as you okay cuz it'll be scary for anybody one of your closest friends somebody you work with All of a sudden just goes to another country. You don't hear from him You know yeah, but when I first saw him after that like I was excited, and I was just like you know What whatever it was we had a moment? We made history and people go on people going to do other things and just keep it moving well that show was Really people always say daniel if it wasn't for the chappelle show this and that Chappelle show Gave me a platform for people to see what I've been doing for years And you know you see talents in the club now you see a muffin is good as shit good as shit But will they get the right platform for the world to see him? Yeah, I'm saying and that's kind of separate You see one person go from one level to the next level who has the right platform to showcase a talent and that show did that for me? And with that said I gave that show everything every time I had a second on camera Every time like if you look at two and a half years on that show if you had an editor break down How many times I spoke it would probably be a total of four minutes? I'll get a word here I get a phrase here But I told myself whenever they turn that motherfucking camera I'm going for it like even if I'm not talking I'm gonna make my body so expressive that your eyeball draws to with no I remember Neil told me one time He said because I always I always get a mic because I'll come up with a line or something to throw in And we were doing a Rick James sketch, and I didn't have a mic. I was a yo Sam and Neil said you're not gonna Get a mic, bro. I said I might I might I was like I Might say something he's like you're not gonna say anything I was like fuck so I told myself when he smacks this motherfucker Because if you look at that scene when he smacks I said what I was like a like a Watch the Square Park mine. I Pushed that I said He didn't give me a mic, but I said what the fuck with my face and I always as People always ask him other showing every young actors and stuff like that you talk to me What do you need to do? I was like with anything the best thing to do is figure out a way to get on a set You get on a set you do background you learn you get opportunities You got to be around it you got to get a skill set, but when it's time to show up You got to show up You have to show up motherfuckers talk a lot of show This out there and then when they say action motherfucker saying ready to show up