Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Dave Chappelle: The Bird Revelation (2007)

 
Genre: Comedy
Directed by: Stan Lathan
Cast: Dave Chappelle 
Running Time: 49 minutes


 

Live on stage (mostly sitting on a stool) in The Comedy Store, in Los Angeles, Dave Chappelle hits the crowd hard with his usual takes on difficult material. Here, again, there is talk of racism. There is also a big section on the sexual assaults accusations that was rocking Hollywood (and still are for that matter).

It needs to be mentioned that Chappelle’s work is not for the easily offended people. Again, he is solid in The Bird Revelation, though maybe not as much as usual. Maybe it was all the sitting, but it felt like he was not projecting the material as much, so it felt like some lines were getting lost. Also, he went way overboard with that banging the mic on himself and on stuff habit he has. I usually overlook that, but, here, it was difficult.

In spite of these little things, this was still a very funny show by a comic in top form.

 

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