Netflix Is More Than A Joke.
Review? You can't review a thing like this. Dave Chappelle is f###### furious! And he should be. We all should be. He shouldn't be told to shut up and tell p### jokes like Los Angeles Laker LeBron James shouldn't be told to "shut up and dribble" by some c### (King...hey, we understand). The G.O.A.T. King of Comedy didn't attend the Grammy's he won this year at the STAPLES Center as he was at home crying "like a baby" like we all were after the tragic, still unbelievable loss of Kobe and GiGi to begin the COVID-19 worst year of 2020 that has lost so many loved ones and now has erupted in violence and police brutality after those who had a problem with American football and legend of the people Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in peaceful protest, didn't have one with a crooked cop putting one on George Floyd's neck until calling for his dead mother he couldn't breathe anymore in a country lead by a so-called President with both his hands on his phone. Thinking that illuminating light still won't reveal that orange face under that white hood. It only seems like yesterday that Kobe was "saving the world", one about to elect Trump in 2016 by hitting 60 in his final game like, "Dear Basketball...Mamba out", Chappelle flipping between channels with cops shot in Dallas on every other. You see Chappelle's couldn't go to the La La Lakerland home of the purple and gold in this Hollywood city of stars this calender as both the number 8 and 24 jerseys were hanging for. That's the date of Dave's birthday man. So coming out of quarantine like the most important and influential musician to his comedian Donald Glover's Childish Gambino album by the '53.49' number, '3.15.20.' released right as we went into lockdown, what's this 8.46?
That's not only the time Dave Chappelle was born but the length of time that f###### cop (whose name we won't say. He only deserved to be referred to as a prison number from now on) had his f###### knee on George Floyd's neck. 8 MINUTES AND FORTY SIX FUCKING SECONDS. Sorry for swearing, but we're way past censorship now. Chappelle compares this to the time he first moved to California and was shook one scared of his first earthquake that lasted a grand total of 35 seconds. I can relate Dave, now living in Japan. If one here lasts even longer than the time it takes to look up from what we're doing I react like I've just seen that glass in 'Jurassic Park' vibrate...and I don't stay perfectly still. Two seconds. 35. 8 MINUTES AND FORTY MOTHER FUCKING Seconds! Do you know how much hatred you have to have in your heart to assume that position for THAT long?! This cop still had his knee on George's neck when the paramedics took his pulse. Are you out of your God damned minds? Like Marvin Gaye said and he does all over the other thing you need to watch on Netflix like Ava DuVernay's '13th' documentary and 'When They See Us' (that scene where he says, "no one gives a f### about me" to the prison guard is about the size of it) and 'Do The Right Thing' and 'BlackKklansman' most important and influential director in the once United States of America, Spike Lee's greatest and most thought provoking movie yet, 'Da 5 Bloods' starring Delroy Lindo and 'Black Panther', James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, Chadwick Boseman, what the f### is going on? Well Dave's about to tell you as he lights a cigarette takes a stool and thumbs through a Moleskin notebook that actually looks like a Bible. In the middle of a peaceful Beaverbrook, Ohio, taking to a candlelit stage one June evening in front of some socially distant spectators, temperature checked for the history making first live show. This writer was fortunate to see Chappelle on Broadway (too scared to approach him after the show) about a couple of weeks away from a year ago in New York round July 4th when I was celebrating the independence day fireworks and the same month of my birth 1985 setting of Netflix's season 3 of their best (until now) shows, 'Stranger Things'. At that show they locked our phones in cases so we wouldn't film for our own streams (good call). Imagine a year later fans seperated by ball player heights, needing a thermometer and donning face masks like the Far East always with iconic Chappelle Show logos like the chain on Chappelle's chest or the one rapper, activist and close friend of Dave, Talib Kweli debuted on Instagram to promote his podcast last week. Imagine all that. You don't have to be Gal Gadot to wonder women and men. Imagine all that's happened in 2020 this time last year. But this time the 'C' in this calendar of coronavirus stand for, "courage" right now.
Consequence raps over A Tribe Called Quest's 'Stressed Out' classic whilst a more than stressed Chappelle takes to the stage to deal with all the consequences (why is the people that are persecuted and not the ones doing the persecution that always have to deal this way?). On stage his show takes a minute to get off the ground (but you f##### know the reasons why) like fellow legend Jerry Seinfeld's latest one. But just like at comedian in a car he once got coffee with once it starts up it really goes, as Netflix show they and this is more than a joke. "Am I boring you" Chappelle asks a compelled crowd who are actually hanging on to his every word as America is for its dear life. Breaking more than funny bones like his 'Sticks and Stones' like his 'Equanimity and the Bird Revelation', the Mark Twain Prize winner for American humor (which you can also see on Netflix) shows satire is his greatest strength as America's greatest comedian has just became the country's greatest social commentator with this guerilla concert were scared to death we still don't give a f### about what Ja Rule thinks at a time like this. It's not about celebrity as Chappelle is trusting "the streets to speak" and couldn't be prouder of all the protestor standing up for all we've lost. TRAYVON MARTIN. ERIC GARNER. PHILANDO CASTILE. BREONNA TAYLOR. The list goes on, but we hope no more. As no more black men and women should lose their lives to corrupt police brutality. Until white people can see that all Black Lives Matter, all lives cannot. "Not if black lives don't" his Leonard Washington character says in response to his white-faced one saying that, "all lives matter" in Chappelle's classic 2016 SNL skit of 'The Walking Dead's' Negan swinging Lucille and barbed wire. Slinging barbs here playing for more than laughs-but dropping a warm anecdotal joke in here and there (like joshing that his 'A Star Is Born' co-star and friend Bradley Cooper has done enough 'Hangover' movies)-Dave knocks this one out of whatever park they're lawn chair sitting in. "Normally I wouldn't show you something so unrefined", Dave Chappelle says in a statement that comes with this video via YouTube. "I hope you understand." And oh how we do as his fidgeting and restless look of unease whilst delivering this mad but moving monologue on the state of those fighting to be United ones right now is a symbol for the "this is America" he is living in today. If only everyone else could too. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Da 5 Bloods', '13th', 'When They See Us'.
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