dave chappelle

Dave Chappelle Shows James Lipton The Joys Of Being On The Biographical Ass-Licking Receiving End

9:39AM STV | Dave Chappelle’s most recent AWOL streak ends Monday on Bravo, when he will appear on the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. Except, in a clever twist we’re presuming occurred only because Diana Ross was unavailable, Chappelle will interview Lipton for the whole show. More »

7:15AM Defamer Hollywood | Dave Chappelle has broken his own marathon stand-up record, beating his nearly 6-hour-long set last April with one Sunday night at the Laugh Factory that lasted 6 hours and 12 minutes. “Dave was determined to keep his record because he recently heard that Dane Cook was planning on trying to break (his) record,” said club owner Jamie Masada, awed by Chappelle’s selflessless in potentially saving an audience from 6 mind-numbing hours of Dane Cook. [AP] More »

Non-Exhausted Dave Chappelle Spotted Near White House

9:45AM Defamer Hollywood | If we’re going to point out Dave Chappelle’s every suspicion-raising trip to the emergency room, it seems only fair that we should turn our readers’ attention to follow-up stories in which the comedian suddenly resurfaces on the other side of the country, showing no signs of the exhaustion that required a brief, publicity-attracting hospital stay. Accordingly, we note this serendipitous encounter outside of the White House between CNN correspondent Ed Henry and the Chappelle from earlier this morning, in which the reporter stumbled upon the peripatetic comic during his morning constitutional from Georgetown to Captiol Hill. Blogs Henry: But as I headed through the screening machine in the Secret Service’s security shack, I overheard someone say, “Hey, that’s Dave Chappelle out there. That’s Dave Chappelle, I’m telling you.” “No way,” I said. “Isn’t he in the hospital?” More »

Dave Chappelle Exhausted

3:50AM Defamer Hollywood | The shocking news that Dave Chappelle briefly checked into a local emergency room this weekend for “exhaustion,” the go-to publicist excuse for suspiciously hospitalised celebrities far, far below the comedian’s talent-grade, will in all likelihood invite knee-jerk speculation that another head-clearing trip to Africa is in the offing. But take heart, fans: long unburdened of the dehydration-inducing demands of huge amounts of basic-cable money, Chappelle merely succumbed to the punishing physical effects of his legendary, marathon stand-up sessions, a problem that shouldn’t recur once he tightens up his set to to a more manageable three-and-a-half hours. Dave Chappelle hospitalised for exhaustion [CNN.com] More »