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MN) - Dave Chappelle got so angry with the crowd Tuesday night at Sacramento's Memorial Auditorium that the stand-up comic walked off the stage for nearly two minutes. Upon his return, he told the audience, "You people are stupid."

 

What got the comic so riled up? According to Chappelle, it was audience members who wouldn't "shut up and listen - like you're supposed to."

 

Chappelle is the creator and star of the No. 1-rated show on Comedy Central. It's that fame that helped the comic sell out the nearly 4,000-seat Memorial Auditorium weeks in advance of the show. And that popularity also caused the frustration for the performer, as audience members continually shouted a character's catchphrase from "Chappelle's Show" - it starts, "I'm Rick James ..." and ends with the b-word.

 

"The show is ruining my life," Chappelle told the crowd. Besides requiring him to work "20 hours a day," he said, it has made him a "star," which has resulted in the inability of fans to treat him as an individual.

 

"This (stand-up) is the most important thing I do, and because I'm on TV, you make it hard for me to do it," he said.

 

"People can't distinguish between what's real and fake. This ain't a TV show. You're not watching Comedy Central. I'm real up here talking."

 

Shouts continued to interrupt Chappelle's routine until he stopped to give a lecture on "how comedy usually works: I say something. You mull it over and decide whether you want to laugh or not, and then you do or not. Then I say something else, and you think about that.

 

"It's worked well all across the country, but you people ..."

 

Performing in Sacramento, the comic said, might turn out "to be a bad idea - like chocolate-covered fish."

 

Chappelle told the crowd he knew why they liked his sketch-comedy show: "Because it's good. You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong.

 

"You people are stupid."

 

Much of Chappelle's act - with its jokes about genitals,and sex talk, tales of strip-club escapades and frequent use of the n-word - is unprintable in a family newspaper. But that's not the best part, anyway. Chappelle is most effective when he ventures into social commentary - race, poverty, the cult of personality.

 

One of his better rants had to do with children and at what age they might be responsible for their own lives. Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old Utah girl who was kidnapped from her home, figured prominently in the commentary. He contrasted her case - she was discovered about nine months after her abduction only a few miles from her home - with that of 7-year-old Erica Pratt, who gnawed through her duct tape bindings to free herself from kidnappers in Philadelphia and was responsible for the arrest of the two men who had taken her. Pratt is African American, and her story received much less attention than did Smart's.

 

Then Chappelle placed Smart's case in opposition to that of Lionel Tate of Florida, who was convicted of murder in the death of a 6-year-old neighbor. Smart, at 15, was considered a child. But at 14, two years after the crime, Tate was sentenced as an adult to life in prison without parole. (A previously rejected plea bargain was later accepted, and he is now free.)

 

"When is a 15-year-old a kid and a 12-year-old an adult?" he asked, indicating it might be because one was white and one was not.

 

Chappelle said race relations are at such a low point in America that, "You can't say anything real when it comes to race. That's why Bill Cosby's in such trouble for saying black folks have got to take responsibility for their own lives.

 

"I spoke at my high school last week," he said, "and I told them, 'You've got to focus. Stop blaming white people for your problems.' "

 

He then added, sarcastically, " 'Learn to play basketball, tell jokes or sell crack. That's the only way I've seen people get out.' "

 

Chappelle's harshest words were addressed to those audience members who worship entertainers and athletes.

 

"Stop listening to celebrities," he said. "They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is."

 

Celebrity worship harms the object of affection as well, Chappelle said. "One day people love you more than they've ever loved anything in the world. And the next, you're in front of a courthouse dancing on top of a car."

 

In case the audience didn't get the reference to Michael Jackson, he said, "You know why Michael Jackson's had so many surgeries? He wanted you to like him more."

 

Chappelle, obviously, will not pander to his fans. "You guys are the worst listeners in the country," he told the Sacramento audience. "It's like 'The Silence of the Lambs.' Without the silence."

 

 

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Shouts continued to interrupt Chappelle's routine until he stopped to give a lecture on "how comedy usually works: I say something. You mull it over and decide whether you want to laugh or not, and then you do or not. Then I say something else, and you think about that. "

 

 

hahaha thats fucking funny

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he needs to take a lesson from red foxx and fuck with anyone in the audience who speaks up.

 

*speak up brother*

hey nigga, pay more and get a good seat!

 

*tell it brother*

ok honey, thank you very much....

is that your husband?

*where?*

anywhere....must be somebody in the world want you....I know I dont!

 

heckling is also part of "how comedy works"

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blah blah blah, race this, my people held back, black this, didnt get to that, shut the hell up chapelle, understand you are appreciated. You sold out a show, so fuck off about if they listened or not. Dont do the show if you are that pissed off. He is not going to stop doin the show cuz of the money. He is a fucktard, always has been in my opinion, actually, this rant made no sense, but fuck him, you are appreciated, accept it...

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Originally posted by ese

he needs to take a lesson from red foxx and fuck with anyone in the audience who speaks up.

 

*speak up brother*

hey nigga, pay more and get a good seat!

 

*tell it brother*

ok honey, thank you very much....

is that your husband?

*where?*

anywhere....must be somebody in the world want you....I know I dont!

 

heckling is also part of "how comedy works"

 

Yeah a true comedian knows how to fuck with the hecklers. Not saying Chappelle isn't, because maybe the heckling from the audience was overwhelming due to his popularity. He can't fuck with 100-200 people in the audience everytime someone shouts some shit out.

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i think he did the right thing, and i give him much respect for having the balls to do that. theres a difference between heckling and a bunch of retards that dont respect his stand up and only the find the most dumbed-down part of his show, the catch-phrases, funny. dont go to someones stand up show because you like the catch phrases on their show and you think it would be a good idea to yell them at the person (who the fuck would think this is beyond me), go to someones stand up show because you want to see them do stand up and you're prepared to shut the fuck up and listen to them do stand up.

 

how many times have you heard people say "that chapelle show is so funny! I'm rick james bitch!"?... people really are retards, if thats all they find funny than the market researchers were right.

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