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Unread 01-22-2013, 05:36 PM   #1
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Serious Chappelle's Show Is 10 Years Old Today. No Sketch Show Has Surpassed It. Discuss.
I'd make this entire post just Youtube links, but this bracket breakdown of the 64 greatest sketches contains all the links you could ever want AND funny commentary and insight.

But yeah, it's been ten years. Which is actually very scary for me because I live in this bubble where it's always just been put on hiatus while Dave Chappelle works out some stuff, maybe make a concert documentary, but always with an eventual triumphant return on the horizon.

Now though...shit, ten years seems like a long time. And it's even more sobering to think that nothing's really risen up to take over it's mantle. I mean there have been some great revolutions in sitcoms, but nothing's really come close to Chappelle's Show in terms of just sheer hilarity per second of sketch. Some can do it on a sketch-by-sketch basis*, but even then you can see the strain. I'm pretty sure Dave Chappelle is a sketch comedy genius, and I don't know when we'll even get one of those anymore, and I guess I'm bummed but I'm also reliving his sketches which means I can't be bummed, and it's all very confusing.

*Off the top of my head, I'd maybe include Numberwang and the East v. West Bowl.
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Yeah, Key and Peele is pretty good but it's not as funny.
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Yeah, Key and Peele is pretty good but it's not as funny.
I really like Key and Peele, but I think it's sort of emblematic of the inherent problem with a lot of non-Chappelle Shows, in that its very aware of the fundamentals of comedy and can push and pull on the aspects it wants, but at best it can produce something...I dunno, composed.

I guess the best way to say it is that a lot of sketch comedy these days is made by people who have come up through established comedy channels, where they've honed their craft and refined what they want to say, and they produce these beautiful little crystalline objects of humor with great regularity. And Chappelle's show just feels really organic, like a gushing/messy vein of hilarity.
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I liked the idea of The Chapelle Show (and a few sketches) better than I liked what I saw of the show itself. But I'm a fan of Chapelle for walking away from it for the reasons he did.
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Meh, he was better on House.
Hahahaha. That was about as funny as a Dave Chappelle sketch.
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I liked the idea of The Chapelle Show (and a few sketches) better than I liked what I saw of the show itself.
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."
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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."
Well, what I mean is a couple of things. For one, I can appreciate the humor and quality of the show even though what little I saw didn't consistently amuse me, and the only reason I think that is is because I don't always like sketch comedy a lot.

Also I do think that Chappelle had at least a somewhat specific focus based on some things he said when he was getting burned out on the show

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It's because of this thread that I'm now watching all these Chappelle's Show clips for the first time ever tonight.
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It's because of this thread that I'm now watching all these Chappelle's Show clips for the first time ever tonight.
Ugggggh, I want that so bad. I just want a neuralyzer so I can watch Prince for the first time everytime.
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