Chappelle's Show Is 10 Years Old Today. No Sketch Show Has Surpassed It. Discuss.

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Originally Posted by Lumenskir

1) It's just "Chappelle's Show", no 'The'.

2) Cuz I'm genuinely curious, what's the 'idea of' Chappelle's Show you liked? As in, I could tell that there are individual sketches with 'points' or 'messages' they want to push, but I never really saw the show having anything like a guiding thesis beyond "What Dave and his writers found funny."

I'd say it was famous for racial humor or humor that pushes the boundaries. I don't think you can overlook sketches like "The Niggar Family" or what have you. Of course many of the sketches have nothing to do with that but those stand out in my mind as perhaps part of a "thesis". On the other hand ones like "I'm James Brown Bitch" or "Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have to Choke a Bitch?" became the most popular memes (ironically the show was extremely popular, perhaps most popular by sheer number, among middle-class caucasian teenagers) and have next to nothing to do with race.

Key and Peele is in a similar tradition of having a few sketches about race (including the two's biracialness), but again, many or most have nothing to do with that (most obvious I can think of is the two college guys branding themselves with their teams logo, the one guy keeps screwing it up and has to keep painfully branding the guy over and over again).