1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:06,381 --> 00:00:07,257 ["Killing Me Softly with His Song" playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:11,177 --> 00:00:14,973 ♪ I heard he sang a good song ♪ 5 00:00:15,056 --> 00:00:19,102 ♪ I heard he had a style ♪ 6 00:00:19,185 --> 00:00:24,107 ♪ And so I came to see him To listen for a while ♪ 7 00:00:26,776 --> 00:00:30,822 ♪ And there he was This young boy ♪ 8 00:00:31,322 --> 00:00:34,284 ♪ A stranger to my eyes ♪ 9 00:00:34,367 --> 00:00:37,954 ♪ Strumming my pain With his fingers ♪ 10 00:00:38,371 --> 00:00:41,583 ♪ Singing my life with his words ♪ 11 00:00:42,292 --> 00:00:45,336 ♪ Killing me softly with his song ♪ 12 00:00:48,298 --> 00:00:51,426 I came back here where I started 13 00:00:51,509 --> 00:00:55,305 because I will shoot my final Netflix special tonight. 14 00:01:01,436 --> 00:01:02,312 That's right. 15 00:01:06,024 --> 00:01:07,358 And after this shit... 16 00:01:08,735 --> 00:01:10,820 it's time to make America wait again. 17 00:01:14,741 --> 00:01:15,950 I've done too well. 18 00:01:16,451 --> 00:01:20,455 You know, if you black in show business and do too well, it's scary. 19 00:01:20,997 --> 00:01:24,125 You got to get the fuck out of the casino while the getting's good, 20 00:01:24,209 --> 00:01:25,585 while you're still winning. 21 00:01:26,711 --> 00:01:29,839 If you don't walk away from the table, that's how niggas get Kevin Harted. 22 00:01:33,718 --> 00:01:34,803 You already know. 23 00:01:37,514 --> 00:01:40,475 That's my man. I'm just saying, if he got a sex tape out... 24 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:43,812 well, it's just a matter of time for me. 25 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:51,903 But you know why I be thinking sometimes 26 00:01:51,986 --> 00:01:54,906 I wanna stop doing comedy, and you know... 27 00:01:55,573 --> 00:01:57,742 I don't wanna sound like a braggart saying this, 28 00:01:57,826 --> 00:02:00,161 but the real, like, reason I wanna stop 29 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:02,914 is because I'm too goddamn good at it. 30 00:02:04,833 --> 00:02:05,792 I'm dope, nigga, like-- 31 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:08,545 I'm not even-- I'm not even exaggerating. 32 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:10,505 It's not exciting. 33 00:02:12,048 --> 00:02:13,550 Every night before I come out on stage, 34 00:02:13,633 --> 00:02:16,219 I'll be backstage like, "I'm sure this is gonna go well." 35 00:02:20,056 --> 00:02:21,349 And it always does. 36 00:02:23,143 --> 00:02:26,563 I'm so good at writing jokes... 37 00:02:26,646 --> 00:02:28,815 And this is not even an exaggeration. 38 00:02:28,898 --> 00:02:31,734 I actually write jokes backwards. 39 00:02:32,485 --> 00:02:36,239 I will write a punch line with no particular setup in mind. 40 00:02:36,322 --> 00:02:38,116 I just put it on a scrap of paper, 41 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:40,618 and I'll throw that scrap of paper in my fishbowl. 42 00:02:40,702 --> 00:02:44,372 I have a fishbowl in my house filled with random punch lines. 43 00:02:44,956 --> 00:02:47,083 And every once in a while, I'll shake the bowl 44 00:02:47,167 --> 00:02:49,127 and I'll dig in there and pull one out, 45 00:02:49,210 --> 00:02:51,421 and see if I can make that shit work. 46 00:02:53,047 --> 00:02:54,716 And I picked one for this special. 47 00:02:56,134 --> 00:02:58,219 It's not an easy punch line to pull off. 48 00:02:58,928 --> 00:02:59,762 Are you ready? 49 00:03:00,013 --> 00:03:01,222 Yeah. 50 00:03:01,306 --> 00:03:03,766 Here it goes. The punch line is, 51 00:03:04,350 --> 00:03:06,227 "So I kicked her in the pussy." 52 00:03:11,107 --> 00:03:12,692 I haven't finished the joke yet. 53 00:03:13,693 --> 00:03:15,904 I just know whatever happens in the beginning of the joke, 54 00:03:15,987 --> 00:03:18,156 at the end of the joke, for some reason, 55 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,825 I'm gonna kick somebody in the pussy, 56 00:03:21,117 --> 00:03:23,203 and it's going to be hilarious. 57 00:03:25,121 --> 00:03:26,414 You know what's weird? 58 00:03:27,248 --> 00:03:29,042 I've always been this talented. 59 00:03:30,585 --> 00:03:32,378 I can't remember a time when I wasn't. 60 00:03:32,462 --> 00:03:35,924 You know, when I was growing up, I was probably about eight years old, 61 00:03:36,007 --> 00:03:38,843 and at the time, we were living in Silver Spring. 62 00:03:39,844 --> 00:03:40,720 Yeah. 63 00:03:42,222 --> 00:03:43,056 Yes. 64 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,725 Common misconception about me and DC, 65 00:03:45,808 --> 00:03:47,936 a lot of people think I'm from the 'hood. 66 00:03:48,019 --> 00:03:48,978 That's not true. 67 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:53,233 But I never bothered to correct anybody... 68 00:03:55,443 --> 00:03:57,570 because I wanted the streets to embrace me. 69 00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:02,867 As a matter of fact, I kept it up as a ruse. 70 00:04:03,451 --> 00:04:06,079 Like sometimes I'll hang out with rappers like Nas and them, 71 00:04:06,162 --> 00:04:08,498 and these motherfuckers start talking about the projects. 72 00:04:08,581 --> 00:04:11,668 "Yo, it was wild in the PJs, yo." 73 00:04:11,751 --> 00:04:13,711 And I'll be like, "Word, nigga, word." 74 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:15,088 But I don't know. 75 00:04:16,589 --> 00:04:17,507 I have no idea. 76 00:04:19,717 --> 00:04:22,428 My parents did just well enough 77 00:04:22,762 --> 00:04:25,431 so that I could grow up poor around white people. 78 00:04:31,646 --> 00:04:33,940 To be honest, when Nas and them talk about the projects, 79 00:04:34,023 --> 00:04:36,109 nigga, I used to get jealous. 80 00:04:37,026 --> 00:04:38,653 Because it sounded fun. 81 00:04:38,736 --> 00:04:42,115 Everybody in the projects was poor, 82 00:04:42,365 --> 00:04:43,324 and that's fair. 83 00:04:43,658 --> 00:04:45,159 But if you were poor in Silver Spring, 84 00:04:45,243 --> 00:04:48,538 nigga, it felt like it was only happening to you. 85 00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:54,210 Nas does not know the pain... 86 00:04:56,129 --> 00:04:59,132 of that first sleepover at a white friend's house. 87 00:05:02,552 --> 00:05:05,596 When you come back home on Sunday and just look at your parents like... 88 00:05:06,723 --> 00:05:08,725 "Y'all need to step your game up. 89 00:05:12,312 --> 00:05:14,397 Everything at Timmy's house works." 90 00:05:18,609 --> 00:05:20,194 Remember the first time you saw that? 91 00:05:20,528 --> 00:05:21,654 The cold winter 92 00:05:21,738 --> 00:05:23,990 and to be at a white friend's house and see them motherfuckers 93 00:05:24,073 --> 00:05:26,075 in their living room without their coats on? 94 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:38,212 Timmy was one of my first white friends, like, in my life, man. 95 00:05:38,588 --> 00:05:43,176 Good dude, too. He moved to Silver Spring from Utah of all places. 96 00:05:43,843 --> 00:05:45,303 I guess his family was affiliated 97 00:05:45,386 --> 00:05:48,181 with that Mormon church they got down there. 98 00:05:49,140 --> 00:05:50,350 Me and him used to hang out. 99 00:05:50,433 --> 00:05:52,852 One day, I was at his house, just hanging out, and Timmy says, 100 00:05:52,935 --> 00:05:56,481 "Dave, why don't you stay for dinner tonight?" 101 00:05:56,814 --> 00:06:00,109 I said, "Oh, man, I'd love to, but I can't." 102 00:06:00,610 --> 00:06:03,279 If I'm not home before dark, my mother will kill me." 103 00:06:05,031 --> 00:06:06,032 That was a lie. 104 00:06:07,658 --> 00:06:10,953 My mother had several jobs. I hadn't seen her in three or four days. 105 00:06:13,664 --> 00:06:15,750 And the only reason I lied to Timmy 106 00:06:15,833 --> 00:06:19,420 was because at that point in my life, it was my experience 107 00:06:19,962 --> 00:06:22,048 that white dinner wasn't delicious. 108 00:06:27,303 --> 00:06:30,431 I'd rather go home and fry some bologna or some shit like that. 109 00:06:38,022 --> 00:06:40,316 But then old Timmy threw me a curveball I wasn't expecting. 110 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,111 He said, "Oh, it's too bad you can't stay, Dave, 'cause... 111 00:06:43,861 --> 00:06:47,407 Mama made Stove Top stuffing." 112 00:06:48,449 --> 00:06:50,701 I said, "What the fuck 113 00:06:52,328 --> 00:06:54,997 Hold on, nigga. Let me make some phone calls real quick." 114 00:06:59,043 --> 00:07:00,795 I had seen that commercial so many times, 115 00:07:00,878 --> 00:07:03,965 I had dreamt of getting my hands on some of that Stove Top stuffing. 116 00:07:05,633 --> 00:07:08,928 Finally I met a motherfucker that actually had a box of Stove Top in the house. 117 00:07:09,011 --> 00:07:12,598 I couldn't miss this opportunity, so I pretended to call my mother. 118 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:15,476 Then I came back and I said, "Timmy. 119 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:18,980 Timmy, you're not gonna believe this. Great news. Mom said I can stay." 120 00:07:19,063 --> 00:07:20,731 He said, "Fantastic." 121 00:07:20,815 --> 00:07:23,359 He said, "Why don't you come with me, and we'll help set the table, 122 00:07:23,443 --> 00:07:25,194 and then we can say the blessing?" 123 00:07:25,278 --> 00:07:29,073 I had no interest in setting this motherfucker's table 124 00:07:29,157 --> 00:07:32,160 or saying these crazy-ass Mormon prayers. 125 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:35,955 I just wanted the goddamn stuffing. 126 00:07:37,999 --> 00:07:39,959 I told Timmy, "You know what? I'd love to help, 127 00:07:40,042 --> 00:07:41,878 but let me go wash my hands first." 128 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:43,337 My plan was simple. 129 00:07:44,046 --> 00:07:45,381 Wash my hands slowly, 130 00:07:45,465 --> 00:07:46,966 and by the time I'm done, 131 00:07:47,049 --> 00:07:49,844 the table will be set, the blessing will be said, 132 00:07:49,927 --> 00:07:53,014 and all that there will be left to do is eat. 133 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:56,350 Went to the bathroom. 134 00:07:57,059 --> 00:07:58,769 I wash my hands very slowly. 135 00:07:58,936 --> 00:08:00,980 I must have been in there for about ten minutes. 136 00:08:02,398 --> 00:08:03,316 And suddenly... 137 00:08:04,108 --> 00:08:05,902 one of his mothers came to the door. 138 00:08:15,411 --> 00:08:18,456 She was like, "Hi. David, right?" 139 00:08:18,915 --> 00:08:20,333 I said, "Yes, ma'am." 140 00:08:20,791 --> 00:08:24,921 She said, "Timmy tells me that you're planning on staying for dinner." 141 00:08:25,505 --> 00:08:27,423 I said, "I hope that's not a problem, ma'am." 142 00:08:27,715 --> 00:08:30,092 She says, "No, it's no problem. We'd love to have you. 143 00:08:30,176 --> 00:08:32,803 It's just that we weren't expecting company. 144 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:34,055 And I'm afraid... 145 00:08:34,931 --> 00:08:37,683 there's not enough Stove Top stuffing... 146 00:08:38,601 --> 00:08:39,727 for everybody." 147 00:08:42,813 --> 00:08:44,815 So I kicked her in the pussy. 148 00:08:45,608 --> 00:08:46,984 Ladies and gentlemen... 149 00:08:48,027 --> 00:08:50,071 I told you I'm dope, nigga. 150 00:08:50,154 --> 00:08:53,407 I told you that I was gonna say it, and you still didn't see it coming. 151 00:08:53,991 --> 00:08:56,619 And that's why I make the big bucks. 152 00:09:06,128 --> 00:09:07,213 Oh, my God. 153 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:12,885 But there's a more important reason that I would stop doing comedy right now. 154 00:09:13,928 --> 00:09:16,347 And this reason is the real reason that's been percolating, 155 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:18,933 and it really is the crowd. Not you. 156 00:09:19,016 --> 00:09:22,853 I'm talking about the crowd on the big stage. 157 00:09:22,937 --> 00:09:26,983 It's too hard to entertain a country whose ears are so brittle. 158 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:28,568 Motherfuckers are so sensitive, 159 00:09:28,651 --> 00:09:31,862 the whole country has turned into bitch-ass niggas. 160 00:09:40,288 --> 00:09:42,456 Everything you say upsets somebody. 161 00:09:43,708 --> 00:09:45,501 You know, I can remember when it all started. 162 00:09:45,585 --> 00:09:47,628 It was when I was doing Chappelle's Show. 163 00:09:47,712 --> 00:09:49,422 When I was doing Chappelle's Show... 164 00:09:51,507 --> 00:09:52,383 I used to do the show, 165 00:09:52,466 --> 00:09:55,011 and then on the weekends, I'd do concerts and shit like that. 166 00:09:55,094 --> 00:09:56,387 So, I'm doing a concert, 167 00:09:56,470 --> 00:09:58,973 and there was a couple in the front row. Beautiful couple. 168 00:09:59,557 --> 00:10:02,435 The wife... The wife was obviously Asian. 169 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:06,897 You could see it in her face. 170 00:10:18,117 --> 00:10:19,035 The husband... 171 00:10:20,244 --> 00:10:23,247 this motherfucker was mysterious, to say the least. 172 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,958 Couldn't quite pinpoint where he was from. 173 00:10:26,042 --> 00:10:28,502 Caramel-colored fella, very nice hair, 174 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:30,921 but he could have been from anywhere. Bangladesh, Mexico. 175 00:10:31,005 --> 00:10:32,757 I can't guess with a nigga like this. 176 00:10:33,924 --> 00:10:37,928 All I knew for sure about this guy... 177 00:10:39,221 --> 00:10:41,015 was that his wife was a bitch. 178 00:10:43,351 --> 00:10:45,353 I could see that in her face, too. No, he was laughing and having a good time, 179 00:10:48,439 --> 00:10:52,318 and she was scowling at me at a goddamn comedy show. 180 00:10:52,401 --> 00:10:53,569 I couldn't figure it out. 181 00:10:54,278 --> 00:10:57,573 And then I realized at some point that she was pregnant, 182 00:10:57,657 --> 00:10:59,450 and I was smoking on stage. 183 00:10:59,533 --> 00:11:02,078 I said, "Oh, my God. That's probably why she's mad." 184 00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:04,163 So I started to put my cigarette out, 185 00:11:04,246 --> 00:11:07,500 but then she hit me with one of them fake non-smoker coughs. 186 00:11:10,294 --> 00:11:11,253 So I just kept smoking. 187 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:14,256 I thought to myself, "Bitch, that baby will be fine. Relax." 188 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,096 Then I tried to break the tension. I just asked her-- This is all I said. 189 00:11:20,179 --> 00:11:22,223 I go, "Hey, where are you guys from?" 190 00:11:22,306 --> 00:11:26,602 And I could tell that she was on to me. Very condescendingly, she says, 191 00:11:26,686 --> 00:11:29,563 "I'm from California. 192 00:11:31,357 --> 00:11:34,068 If you're asking my ethnicity... 193 00:11:35,111 --> 00:11:36,612 I am Chinese." 194 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:38,864 And her husband was just cool about the shit. 195 00:11:38,948 --> 00:11:40,950 He was like, "I'm Mexican, bro." 196 00:11:43,452 --> 00:11:45,871 I said, "Well, I'm sorry if I offended you by asking, 197 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:47,498 but you're very beautiful couple. 198 00:11:48,207 --> 00:11:50,668 And, miss, there's no question that you're gonna give birth 199 00:11:51,168 --> 00:11:53,838 to the hardest-working baby this world has ever seen." 200 00:11:59,009 --> 00:12:00,261 It's not a bad joke. 201 00:12:01,637 --> 00:12:03,055 She got very upset. 202 00:12:03,139 --> 00:12:04,890 She got up to leave immediately. 203 00:12:04,974 --> 00:12:07,893 She didn't just leave. She had to take one last dig at me on the way out. 204 00:12:09,019 --> 00:12:14,525 "I will never buy one of your fucking DVDs again, Dave Chappelle." 205 00:12:16,318 --> 00:12:18,612 I said, "Ma'am, with all due respect... 206 00:12:19,655 --> 00:12:21,699 Chinese people don't buy DVDs." 207 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:31,083 And the crowd went crazy. 208 00:12:31,167 --> 00:12:33,043 We were all laughing and having a good time. 209 00:12:33,127 --> 00:12:34,795 I didn't even think anything of it. 210 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:36,756 And then, just three days later, 211 00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:39,925 this lady sends a fucking letter to my promoter 212 00:12:40,009 --> 00:12:42,636 telling him not to book me for shows anymore 213 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:44,972 because I was quote "racist." Huh? 214 00:12:45,556 --> 00:12:48,350 And... And I'm quoting her, 215 00:12:48,434 --> 00:12:51,687 "insensitive to the nature of my interracial marriage." 216 00:12:52,271 --> 00:12:54,648 I was like, "Word, bitch, I was?" 217 00:12:59,612 --> 00:13:02,448 If she had just done a little bit of research... 218 00:13:02,990 --> 00:13:08,078 She would know that I myself am in an interracial marriage. 219 00:13:09,121 --> 00:13:09,997 That's right. 220 00:13:11,373 --> 00:13:15,211 In fact, my wife is Asian, too. 221 00:13:15,377 --> 00:13:18,672 Surprise, bitch. I'll see you on Thanksgiving. 222 00:13:25,304 --> 00:13:26,847 But my wife's not Chinese. 223 00:13:27,681 --> 00:13:28,766 She's Filipino. 224 00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:31,393 That's right. 225 00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:34,313 And our kids look Puerto Rican somehow, so there you go. 226 00:13:38,442 --> 00:13:40,152 I don't give a fuck about interracial marriage. 227 00:13:40,236 --> 00:13:42,655 In fact, you know what? My mother is half white. 228 00:13:42,738 --> 00:13:44,532 -A lot of people don't know that. 229 00:13:44,615 --> 00:13:47,117 All right, you a little too excited, but okay. 230 00:13:50,371 --> 00:13:52,748 A lot of people don't believe me when I say that, but it's true. 231 00:13:52,832 --> 00:13:55,251 You can't tell looking at me. 232 00:13:56,252 --> 00:13:57,920 But if I grew my hair out... 233 00:13:59,922 --> 00:14:02,174 you would think you was at a fucking Katt Williams concert. 234 00:14:02,258 --> 00:14:03,342 My shit is... 235 00:14:04,885 --> 00:14:06,136 My shit is beautiful. 236 00:14:08,514 --> 00:14:10,474 But motherfuckers are just taking it too far. 237 00:14:10,558 --> 00:14:15,145 I don't know why or how everybody got this goddamn sensitive. 238 00:14:15,229 --> 00:14:16,772 You know who hates me the most? 239 00:14:16,856 --> 00:14:18,274 The transgender community. 240 00:14:19,567 --> 00:14:20,609 Yo, yeah, these motherfuck-- 241 00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:22,820 I mean, I didn't realize how bad it was. 242 00:14:22,903 --> 00:14:26,782 These motherfuckers was really mad about that last Netflix special. 243 00:14:33,581 --> 00:14:36,417 It's tough, man. I don't know what to do about it 'cause... 244 00:14:36,750 --> 00:14:37,918 'Cause I like them. 245 00:14:39,003 --> 00:14:41,380 Always have. Never had a problem with them. 246 00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:42,673 You know. 247 00:14:43,507 --> 00:14:44,717 Just fucking around. 248 00:14:46,051 --> 00:14:48,721 A matter fact, I think I make fun of everybody. 249 00:14:49,513 --> 00:14:52,099 I mean, as a group of people, they have to admit that... 250 00:14:54,143 --> 00:14:55,686 it's kind of fucking hilarious, man. 251 00:14:55,769 --> 00:14:57,229 I'm sorry, bro. It's like... 252 00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:01,191 I've never seen somebody in such a hilarious predicament 253 00:15:01,942 --> 00:15:04,028 not have a sense of humor about it. 254 00:15:04,820 --> 00:15:08,490 They're born feeling like they're something other than they're born as, 255 00:15:08,574 --> 00:15:09,617 and that's... 256 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:13,245 That's kind of funny. 257 00:15:14,622 --> 00:15:16,874 I mean, it's funny if it's not happening to you. 258 00:15:18,542 --> 00:15:21,337 It's like that white black bitch that's in the news all the time. 259 00:15:23,631 --> 00:15:24,673 Rachel Dolezal. 260 00:15:25,925 --> 00:15:28,594 She always says that. She-- She-- She was-- 261 00:15:28,677 --> 00:15:31,889 She's a white woman, but then she dressed up like a nigga and... 262 00:15:33,140 --> 00:15:36,602 shot her way up to the very top of blackness. 263 00:15:39,772 --> 00:15:42,775 And I always wanted to meet her just so I can understand. 264 00:15:42,858 --> 00:15:46,111 I just wanted to have dinner with her, so I can just look in her eyes... 265 00:15:47,196 --> 00:15:49,448 and call her a nigga to her face. 266 00:15:52,910 --> 00:15:55,579 What the fuck is that bitch talking about? "I identify as black." 267 00:15:55,663 --> 00:15:58,666 That is trans-talk, lady. Stop biting. 268 00:15:58,832 --> 00:16:00,209 Stop biting. 269 00:16:02,252 --> 00:16:03,712 There's a big difference between her and a trans. 270 00:16:03,796 --> 00:16:07,049 The difference between her and a trans is I believe transgenders. 271 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:11,428 I don't understand them either, but I know they mean what they say. 272 00:16:13,263 --> 00:16:15,099 Them niggas cut they dicks off. 273 00:16:16,183 --> 00:16:17,851 That's all the proof I need. 274 00:16:19,019 --> 00:16:20,688 Never seen somebody just throw their dick away. 275 00:16:20,771 --> 00:16:21,605 Don't need it. 276 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:29,780 I don't understand, but I believe you, 277 00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:32,032 and I support your decision, motherfucker. 278 00:16:33,617 --> 00:16:36,745 But how far is Rachel willing to go 279 00:16:38,038 --> 00:16:41,291 What is Rachel willing to do so that we blacks can believe 280 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:44,545 that she believes she's actually one of us? 281 00:16:47,089 --> 00:16:49,758 Bitch, are you willing to put a lien on your house? 282 00:16:52,302 --> 00:16:55,222 So that you can invest in a mix tape that probably won't work out. 283 00:17:03,230 --> 00:17:04,773 She didn't even change her name. 284 00:17:05,983 --> 00:17:08,235 Didn't even change her name. 285 00:17:08,318 --> 00:17:10,029 Her name is Rachel. 286 00:17:10,112 --> 00:17:11,864 I can't believe in that name. 287 00:17:13,657 --> 00:17:14,700 You want my support, 288 00:17:14,783 --> 00:17:18,328 you gonna have to change your name to the blackest shit I've ever heard. 289 00:17:20,664 --> 00:17:23,375 Bitch, you gonna have to change your name to Draymond Green. 290 00:17:27,254 --> 00:17:29,173 I don't know a blacker name than that. 291 00:17:30,132 --> 00:17:31,717 That shit is black on paper. 292 00:17:33,302 --> 00:17:36,513 If you type "Draymond Green" in the Airbnb... 293 00:17:37,931 --> 00:17:40,100 that shit will log off automatic. 294 00:17:50,778 --> 00:17:51,987 People get mad, bro. 295 00:17:53,113 --> 00:17:54,990 People get mad about everything I say. 296 00:17:55,824 --> 00:17:58,744 I was doing a show. I was in Portland, Oregon. 297 00:17:59,620 --> 00:18:02,122 And I was checked in a hotel 298 00:18:02,206 --> 00:18:04,541 under the name Charles Edward Cheese. 299 00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:15,469 I came back to my room late at night... 300 00:18:17,429 --> 00:18:22,101 and there was a note. It was like a letter on my desk. 301 00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:24,144 It was addressed to "Mr. Cheese." 302 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:26,313 So, obviously, I'm gonna assume 303 00:18:26,396 --> 00:18:28,565 that whoever wrote this letter must be an intimate friend. 304 00:18:28,649 --> 00:18:31,110 This is not some kind of name that a person would just guess. 305 00:18:31,193 --> 00:18:32,402 But then I open the letter, 306 00:18:32,486 --> 00:18:35,030 and it turns out I don't know this person at all. 307 00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:36,698 It's a fan letter. 308 00:18:37,282 --> 00:18:39,910 I'm not even used to the idea that I have fans, 309 00:18:39,993 --> 00:18:41,328 but I'm grateful for it. 310 00:18:41,411 --> 00:18:42,246 And... 311 00:18:43,205 --> 00:18:45,999 And even though I'm grateful for fans, I... 312 00:18:46,917 --> 00:18:48,544 I don't read those letters. 313 00:18:51,505 --> 00:18:54,174 Be nice if I did, but realistically, it's like, 314 00:18:54,258 --> 00:18:56,677 "What am I, Santa Claus, nigga? I don't have time for this. 315 00:18:57,594 --> 00:18:59,680 Got shit I wanna do. I'm trying to chill." 316 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:02,182 Read all these dreams and wishes from strangers. 317 00:19:02,266 --> 00:19:03,767 But then-- But I read it. 318 00:19:03,851 --> 00:19:06,311 I'd already opened it, so I just read the whole letter. 319 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:07,771 And you know what, man? 320 00:19:08,188 --> 00:19:11,400 Whoever wrote this letter truly loves me. 321 00:19:12,526 --> 00:19:14,653 I mean, they were really fucking nice in the letter. 322 00:19:14,736 --> 00:19:18,115 And then they described to me what it was like to come to the show. 323 00:19:18,198 --> 00:19:20,951 How excited they were and how much fun they were having. 324 00:19:21,743 --> 00:19:22,995 And then they said... 325 00:19:23,745 --> 00:19:26,498 that when I got to my jokes about transgenders... 326 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,250 that they were quote, 327 00:19:29,459 --> 00:19:30,711 "devastated." 328 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,799 'Cause turns out that whoever wrote the letter was transgender. 329 00:19:36,258 --> 00:19:37,885 I'm gonna be real for a second. 330 00:19:38,927 --> 00:19:41,638 As a policy, you gotta understand, 331 00:19:41,722 --> 00:19:45,350 I never feel bad about anything I say up here. 332 00:19:54,318 --> 00:19:58,197 And I would never admit this to you if I hadn't locked your phones up. 333 00:20:02,743 --> 00:20:05,829 But it was the weirdest thing, like when I read this letter... 334 00:20:06,997 --> 00:20:08,916 the shit made me feel bad. 335 00:20:08,999 --> 00:20:11,251 I didn't feel bad about what I said, you understand. 336 00:20:11,335 --> 00:20:15,505 I felt bad that I made somebody else feel bad. 337 00:20:15,881 --> 00:20:18,800 To be honest, I don't even know what I said that upset that person. 338 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:21,178 I have so many transgender jokes. 339 00:20:27,226 --> 00:20:28,518 But I feel like... 340 00:20:29,228 --> 00:20:31,104 I feel like it was probably... 341 00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:34,233 this joke I'm about to tell you right now. 342 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:36,193 Sorry. 343 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:39,196 And it's not even that bad of a joke. 344 00:20:39,279 --> 00:20:41,782 It's a true joke. I mean, it's not true, but I-- 345 00:20:41,865 --> 00:20:43,325 I had read in the paper 346 00:20:43,408 --> 00:20:46,203 that Caitlyn Jenner was contemplating posing nude 347 00:20:46,286 --> 00:20:48,914 in an upcoming issue of Sports Illustrated. 348 00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:53,835 And I know it's not politically correct to say these things, 349 00:20:53,919 --> 00:20:57,339 so I just figured, ""Fuck it, I'll say it for everybody else. 350 00:20:58,215 --> 00:20:59,174 Yuck." 351 00:21:04,638 --> 00:21:08,016 You know, sometimes, I just want to read some stats. 352 00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:11,436 I don't know why you gonna cram some man pussy 353 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,730 in the middle of the sports page lines. 354 00:21:14,564 --> 00:21:16,233 I just didn't think that was the place for it. 355 00:21:16,316 --> 00:21:19,194 But I wasn't saying anything like Caitlyn Jenner's a bad person. 356 00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:22,239 I'm not mad at her. I'm not even mad at Sports Illustrated. 357 00:21:22,322 --> 00:21:23,991 If I'm mad at somebody... 358 00:21:24,950 --> 00:21:27,119 I'm probably just mad at myself. 359 00:21:27,411 --> 00:21:28,370 You understand? 360 00:21:28,537 --> 00:21:33,250 'Cause deep down, I know that I am not strong enough... 361 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:36,461 to not look at those pictures. 362 00:21:41,883 --> 00:21:44,469 And I don't think I'm ready to see what she's trying to show. 363 00:21:46,513 --> 00:21:47,472 So, Caitlyn... 364 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,934 goddamn it, if you go through with this thing... 365 00:21:53,061 --> 00:21:55,272 bitch, you better go hard or go home. 366 00:21:56,815 --> 00:21:58,984 I want you to go all the way. 367 00:21:59,234 --> 00:22:01,945 Hustler style. Do you know what Hustler style means, miss? 368 00:22:02,029 --> 00:22:04,406 That means spread the lips... 369 00:22:14,958 --> 00:22:17,544 I hope she spreads the lips and there's an itty-bitty dick inside. 370 00:22:20,964 --> 00:22:23,508 The show is behind the curtains. 371 00:22:35,228 --> 00:22:37,272 I don't know what I said that upset that person. 372 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:39,983 But I'm gonna tell you something. 373 00:22:40,817 --> 00:22:42,069 When I read that letter... 374 00:22:42,652 --> 00:22:44,237 in the moments after I read it, 375 00:22:44,321 --> 00:22:48,533 I did something that many black men in America 376 00:22:48,617 --> 00:22:51,661 do not have the time or the money to do. 377 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:54,956 I thought about how I felt. 378 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:01,505 Asked myself a very basic question 379 00:23:01,588 --> 00:23:03,465 that I don't think I ever directly contemplated. 380 00:23:03,548 --> 00:23:06,093 I said, "Man, Dave, if you're writing all these jokes, 381 00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:10,180 do you have a problem with transgender people?" 382 00:23:10,263 --> 00:23:14,643 And the answer is absolutely not. 383 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:16,728 The fuck you guys think I am? 384 00:23:16,812 --> 00:23:20,273 I don't understand all the choices that people make. 385 00:23:20,732 --> 00:23:22,901 But I do understand that life is hard, 386 00:23:22,984 --> 00:23:25,987 and that those types of choices do not disqualify you 387 00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,491 from a life with dignity and happiness and safety in it. 388 00:23:38,667 --> 00:23:39,918 But if I'm honest... 389 00:23:45,465 --> 00:23:48,844 my problem has never been with transgender people. 390 00:23:48,927 --> 00:23:50,762 My problem has always been 391 00:23:50,846 --> 00:23:54,057 with the dialogue about transgender people. 392 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:57,811 I just feel like these things should not be discussed 393 00:23:57,894 --> 00:23:59,729 in front of the blacks. 394 00:24:02,649 --> 00:24:03,942 It's fucking insulting, 395 00:24:04,025 --> 00:24:06,903 all this talk about how these people feel inside. 396 00:24:06,987 --> 00:24:13,076 Since when has America given a fuck how any of us feel inside? 397 00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:22,043 And I cannot shake this awful suspicion 398 00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:26,214 that the only reason everybody is talking about transgenders 399 00:24:26,298 --> 00:24:29,384 is because white men want to do it. 400 00:24:29,801 --> 00:24:30,635 That's right. 401 00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:32,220 I just said that. 402 00:24:34,097 --> 00:24:36,433 If it was just women that felt that way 403 00:24:36,516 --> 00:24:38,393 or black dudes and Mexican dudes being like, 404 00:24:38,477 --> 00:24:40,187 "Hey, ya'll, we feel like girls inside." 405 00:24:40,270 --> 00:24:43,148 They'd be like, "Shut up, nigger. No one asked you how you felt. 406 00:24:43,648 --> 00:24:45,817 Come on, everybody, we have strawberries to pick." 407 00:24:47,903 --> 00:24:49,696 It reeks of white privilege. 408 00:24:50,322 --> 00:24:54,159 You never asked yourself why it was easier for Bruce Jenner to change his gender 409 00:24:54,242 --> 00:24:57,996 than it was for Cassius Clay to change his fucking name? 410 00:25:05,378 --> 00:25:07,297 And if I were to be brutally honest... 411 00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:09,341 Go, Dave. 412 00:25:09,424 --> 00:25:12,802 ...the only reason I ever have been mad at the transgender community, 413 00:25:12,886 --> 00:25:15,096 is because I was at a club in LA 414 00:25:15,514 --> 00:25:19,017 and danced with one of these niggas for six songs straight. 415 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:22,229 I had no idea. 416 00:25:24,022 --> 00:25:25,941 Then the lights came up and I saw them knuckles. 417 00:25:26,024 --> 00:25:28,193 I said, "Oh, no!" 418 00:25:28,944 --> 00:25:30,987 And everybody was laughing at me. 419 00:25:31,947 --> 00:25:32,989 WorldStar. 420 00:25:37,035 --> 00:25:40,121 I said, "Why didn't you say anything?" 421 00:25:41,581 --> 00:25:43,166 Then I heard that sultry voice. 422 00:25:44,376 --> 00:25:46,711 "I didn't say anything, Dave Chappelle, 423 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:49,506 because I was having a wonderful time. 424 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,385 And I wasn't sure how you'd feel about it." 425 00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:57,055 I said, "You knew how I'd feel." 426 00:26:00,225 --> 00:26:03,603 And she said, "I'm going home. I don't want any trouble from you." 427 00:26:04,437 --> 00:26:06,982 I said, "Home? It's only two songs left. 428 00:26:07,065 --> 00:26:08,984 I mean, we might as well... 429 00:26:10,443 --> 00:26:11,528 finish the night." 430 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:17,784 And we ended up having breakfast together. 431 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:21,663 Oh, grow up. That doesn't make me gay. 432 00:26:22,539 --> 00:26:23,957 I just titty-fuck them. 433 00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:28,878 Those titties are as real as any titties in LA. 434 00:26:29,337 --> 00:26:30,338 It was two o'clock in the morning. 435 00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:34,092 I was just borrowing a little friction from a stranger. Whoops! 436 00:26:44,769 --> 00:26:46,313 It's the madness of youth. 437 00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:49,357 It's the types of mistakes a man makes when he's young. 438 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,484 I wouldn't even know that it's necessarily a mistake. 439 00:26:51,568 --> 00:26:52,986 It was a wild night out. 440 00:26:54,946 --> 00:26:57,991 But I don't do it like that anymore. I'm old. I'm 44 now. 441 00:26:58,867 --> 00:26:59,701 Right. 442 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:07,375 It's the first time in my life I've ever started to physically feel my age. 443 00:27:07,459 --> 00:27:09,169 You can-- It's tough, man. 444 00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:12,631 You know how I know I'm getting old? This is embarrassing, but... 445 00:27:13,214 --> 00:27:14,633 I was in my hotel room. 446 00:27:16,217 --> 00:27:18,887 I was-- I'm not gonna lie, I was jerking off. 447 00:27:19,846 --> 00:27:21,806 And I was really sweating it out. 448 00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:26,227 And this is when I knew I was old. 449 00:27:26,728 --> 00:27:29,606 I just gave up in the middle like nothing even happened. 450 00:27:38,490 --> 00:27:40,867 I don't like looking at my dick anymore. 451 00:27:41,743 --> 00:27:43,745 My dick looks distinguished. 452 00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:46,247 It's old. An old-looking dick. 453 00:27:46,331 --> 00:27:49,709 It's got salt-and-pepper hair all around it. 454 00:27:51,711 --> 00:27:54,506 My dick looks like Morgan Freeman in the '90s. 455 00:27:56,716 --> 00:27:58,009 Without the dots. 456 00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:02,263 My dick narrates, 457 00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:05,684 "Dave pulled me out and started jerking me around. 458 00:28:05,767 --> 00:28:07,102 Jerking me around. 459 00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:10,939 But not with the same vigor as when he was young. 460 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,984 He and I both knew nothing was coming out." 461 00:28:21,449 --> 00:28:23,368 I see my age in my children. 462 00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:27,789 I came home from the road, this is not long ago. 463 00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:31,668 I'd been gone for-- If you picture, I was gone for weeks and weeks, 464 00:28:31,751 --> 00:28:34,754 and when I came back, nobody was home. 465 00:28:36,756 --> 00:28:39,217 Not one person in my family thought that 466 00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:41,845 maybe I'd like to see them when I got back. 467 00:28:42,762 --> 00:28:45,140 They knew when I was coming back, but they just weren't... 468 00:28:45,223 --> 00:28:46,182 They just weren't home. 469 00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:48,893 And that shit was a wake-up call. 470 00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:51,438 You know, like, when my kids were little, and the tour bus would pull up to the house, 471 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,942 these motherfuckers would spill out. 472 00:28:57,318 --> 00:29:00,155 "Dad is home. Hooray!" 473 00:29:00,238 --> 00:29:01,740 And they'd hug me and kiss me. 474 00:29:01,823 --> 00:29:04,826 And then, as the years went on, they'd get less interested. 475 00:29:04,909 --> 00:29:08,872 "Hey, everybody, look, it's Mr. Promises back from the road." 476 00:29:14,252 --> 00:29:16,004 But an empty house, that's... 477 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,298 That's some cold shit. 478 00:29:20,383 --> 00:29:23,219 I went into my oldest son's room. I was like, "Hello" 479 00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:24,137 He was gone. 480 00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:26,723 I'd never done this to him before, but for some reason, I just did it. 481 00:29:26,806 --> 00:29:29,225 I just... I just looked through his shit. 482 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:33,938 Just to see who this motherfucker was becoming. 483 00:29:35,398 --> 00:29:38,359 I found these notebooks, and I started going through the notebooks, 484 00:29:38,443 --> 00:29:41,070 and it was all this wonderful poetry in them. 485 00:29:41,154 --> 00:29:42,530 It was his handwriting. 486 00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:45,366 I didn't even know this nigga wrote poems. 487 00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:51,539 Then I look through his drawers, and I open up his middle drawer... 488 00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:54,334 and I found this rolling paper. 489 00:29:56,544 --> 00:29:59,255 And I looked down at them papers, like, "Oh... 490 00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:02,258 that's where that poetry is coming from." 491 00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:09,682 And that shit broke my heart. 492 00:30:10,683 --> 00:30:13,937 I mean, I smoke weed, but I mourned my son's innocence. 493 00:30:14,437 --> 00:30:15,855 And I cried a little bit... 494 00:30:16,564 --> 00:30:19,067 and I took his papers upstairs in my room. 495 00:30:20,819 --> 00:30:23,154 Rolled some weed that I'd hid from the family. 496 00:30:24,113 --> 00:30:25,740 And I got really high. 497 00:30:26,449 --> 00:30:27,992 And then I got paranoid... 498 00:30:28,910 --> 00:30:31,037 so I put his papers back how I found them... 499 00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:34,999 so he wouldn't know what I was up to. 500 00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:40,421 This nigga won't even know that that happened till he sees this special. 501 00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:45,260 Yeah, nigga, I found your papers. 502 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:49,806 He's a cold motherfucker. 503 00:30:49,889 --> 00:30:52,976 This kid is only 16 years old. Listen to what he did to me. 504 00:30:53,059 --> 00:30:54,978 This motherfucker calls me up... 505 00:30:55,395 --> 00:30:57,981 in the middle of the night. It was one o'clock in the morning. He goes, "Dad, don't be mad." 506 00:31:00,733 --> 00:31:03,319 I knew something was terribly wrong. 507 00:31:04,654 --> 00:31:07,323 I said, "What's going on?" He said, "Listen, I'm fine. 508 00:31:07,407 --> 00:31:09,450 And don't forget you told me to do this. 509 00:31:10,451 --> 00:31:11,661 I'm at a party, 510 00:31:12,036 --> 00:31:15,373 and my designated driver had too much to drink. 511 00:31:15,707 --> 00:31:17,959 Me and my friends need you to come pick us up." 512 00:31:18,042 --> 00:31:21,170 I said, "Jesus Christ. It's one o'clock in the morning, nigga. 513 00:31:21,254 --> 00:31:23,006 I am shitfaced." 514 00:31:33,725 --> 00:31:37,145 But then I figured fuck, it's better me than some kid. 515 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:41,691 I might as well roll the dice and go pick my nigga up. 516 00:31:41,774 --> 00:31:43,651 I said, "All right, I'm coming to get you. 517 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:48,907 Give me the address and I'll be right there." 518 00:31:50,283 --> 00:31:52,535 And then he gave me the address, and I was shocked. 519 00:31:52,619 --> 00:31:55,163 I said, "Son, you are not gonna believe this, but... 520 00:31:56,623 --> 00:31:58,958 I'm at the same party, nigga." 521 00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:12,138 They grow up fast, don't they? 522 00:32:13,306 --> 00:32:14,641 Can I ask you a weird question? I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable. 523 00:32:16,142 --> 00:32:17,101 You don't have to answer it, 524 00:32:17,185 --> 00:32:19,771 and if it doesn't go well, we'll just edit it out anyway. 525 00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:24,609 Is it weird to be the only white people in a row? 526 00:32:29,614 --> 00:32:31,157 I mean, you can be honest. 527 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,451 Does it feel strange? Are you worried at all? 528 00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:37,372 Give me your money, motherfucker. I'm just fucking with you. 529 00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:41,459 This guy's got ice in his veins. He didn't even buckle. 530 00:32:44,337 --> 00:32:46,839 You know, like many black men my age, 531 00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:49,676 the first time I voted was eight years ago. 532 00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:55,223 That's right. 533 00:32:57,100 --> 00:33:00,311 I saw Obama on TBS, said, "I'm voting for this nigga." 534 00:33:03,523 --> 00:33:05,525 I remember the day I voted for Obama. 535 00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:07,026 I voted in Ohio. 536 00:33:07,443 --> 00:33:09,904 And my vote matters in Ohio. 537 00:33:10,363 --> 00:33:12,115 Ohio is a battleground state. 538 00:33:12,198 --> 00:33:15,660 But when I pulled up to the polls, all of the soldiers were in line. 539 00:33:15,743 --> 00:33:17,954 There were so many black people in that goddamn line, 540 00:33:18,037 --> 00:33:21,332 I didn't even know it was the polls. I thought it was the check-cashing place. 541 00:33:25,795 --> 00:33:27,296 We were hugging each other, 542 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:30,883 and old people were singing hymns and spirituals and shit. 543 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:35,179 It was like the OJ verdict times ten or some shit. 544 00:33:35,263 --> 00:33:37,348 I've never seen black people that happy. 545 00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:43,813 Eight years later, I'm pulling up to the polls again. 546 00:33:44,564 --> 00:33:47,108 This time, I'm driving a brand-new Porsche. 547 00:33:47,525 --> 00:33:50,236 Because the Obama years were very good to me. 548 00:33:58,286 --> 00:33:59,662 I was early voting... 549 00:34:00,246 --> 00:34:01,914 and when I parked my car, 550 00:34:01,998 --> 00:34:03,624 I figured out something 551 00:34:03,708 --> 00:34:06,878 that it would take the rest of the country another week to figure out. 552 00:34:07,462 --> 00:34:10,673 I understood that Donald Trump was gonna be our next president. 553 00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:13,801 Because in Ohio, unlike DC, 554 00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:16,554 you could see the results in the parking lot. 555 00:34:17,263 --> 00:34:21,017 All these goddamn pickup trucks and tractors and shit. 556 00:34:30,526 --> 00:34:35,656 And then I walked up, and I saw a long, long line... 557 00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:38,451 of dusty white people. 558 00:34:43,873 --> 00:34:46,626 Yes, ladies and gentlemen, these were the poor whites. 559 00:34:47,835 --> 00:34:51,964 I must tell you, I've never had a problem with white people ever in my life, 560 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:53,674 but full disclosure... 561 00:34:55,551 --> 00:34:57,929 the poor whites are my least favorites. 562 00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:03,142 We've got a lot of trouble out of them. 563 00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:08,314 And I've never seen so many of them up close. 564 00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:12,610 I looked them right in their coal-smeared faces. 565 00:35:16,489 --> 00:35:17,990 And to my surprise... 566 00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:20,493 you know what I didn't see? 567 00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:25,957 I didn't see one deplorable face in that group. 568 00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:29,210 Saw some angry faces and some determined faces, 569 00:35:29,293 --> 00:35:32,046 but they felt like decent folk. 570 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:36,175 No, they did. In fact, I'm not even lying, and not to sound fucked up, 571 00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:37,802 but I felt sorry for them. 572 00:35:38,219 --> 00:35:39,554 I know the game there. 573 00:35:40,012 --> 00:35:42,306 I know that rich white people 574 00:35:42,390 --> 00:35:44,517 call poor white people trash. 575 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,853 And the only reason I know that 576 00:35:46,936 --> 00:35:49,313 is because I made so much money last year, 577 00:35:49,939 --> 00:35:53,359 the rich whites told me they say it at a cocktail party. 578 00:35:57,905 --> 00:35:59,532 And I'm not with that shit. 579 00:36:00,283 --> 00:36:01,409 I stood with them in line, 580 00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:04,162 like all of us Americans are required to do in a democracy, 581 00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:06,372 nobody skips the line to vote, 582 00:36:06,914 --> 00:36:08,332 and I listened to them. 583 00:36:08,541 --> 00:36:12,378 I listened to them say naive poor white people things. 584 00:36:14,088 --> 00:36:17,091 "Man, Donald Trump's gonna go to Washington, 585 00:36:17,175 --> 00:36:19,510 and he's gonna fight for us." 586 00:36:20,511 --> 00:36:24,223 I'm standing there thinking in my mind, "You dumb motherfucker. 587 00:36:30,104 --> 00:36:32,231 You are poor. 588 00:36:33,649 --> 00:36:35,109 He's fighting for me." 589 00:36:48,414 --> 00:36:50,958 And they all looked at me. They could tell who I was voting for, 590 00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:53,461 just as easily as I could tell who they were voting for. 591 00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:56,130 But do you guys know what we all had in common? 592 00:36:56,923 --> 00:36:59,634 Not one of us, not a single one of us, 593 00:36:59,842 --> 00:37:03,262 looked like we felt good about what we had to do in that booth. 594 00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:05,973 We were just doing our goddamn duty. 595 00:37:06,057 --> 00:37:08,893 Yes, I voted for Hillary Clinton, of course I did. 596 00:37:11,479 --> 00:37:15,233 I voted for her because I liked what she said 597 00:37:15,524 --> 00:37:18,986 vastly better than I liked what he said. 598 00:37:21,697 --> 00:37:23,574 To be honest with you, at that point, 599 00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:27,453 that shit was like watching Darth Vader do the "I Have a Dream" speech. 600 00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:30,706 That bitch is mean as hell. 601 00:37:30,790 --> 00:37:34,126 She'd already Karate Kid swept Bernie Sanders legs from underneath him. 602 00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:36,545 Boy, it was hard voting for that shit. 603 00:37:37,838 --> 00:37:39,465 But it was the lesser of the evils. 604 00:37:39,548 --> 00:37:42,802 I know you were a Clinton supporter, miss. I am sorry to say like that. 605 00:37:42,885 --> 00:37:45,388 It didn't feel bad voting for her, 606 00:37:45,471 --> 00:37:48,015 but it didn't feel as good as it should've. 607 00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:50,559 She was gonna be our first woman president. 608 00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:52,895 They were gonna make coins out of this bitch. 609 00:37:59,694 --> 00:38:02,238 And somehow, she just missed the dunk. 610 00:38:03,739 --> 00:38:06,242 Of course she should've beat him. 611 00:38:06,325 --> 00:38:07,868 You know what voting for her felt like? 612 00:38:07,952 --> 00:38:09,954 It was bittersweet. It felt like 613 00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:14,208 I was lucky enough to eat Halle Berry's pussy. 614 00:38:16,460 --> 00:38:18,796 And whilst I was doing so, 615 00:38:19,088 --> 00:38:21,757 she fucking farted in my face, man. 616 00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:32,977 Now you understand, I'd still do it. 617 00:38:35,354 --> 00:38:38,774 But, boy, I wish she didn't fart in this great nation's face. 618 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:46,490 I voted that day, and then that same day I flew to New York City. 619 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:48,284 I had work. 620 00:38:48,868 --> 00:38:50,703 That night, I was in a comedy club in New York, 621 00:38:50,786 --> 00:38:55,291 and I said to an audience almost exactly what I just said to you. 622 00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:58,252 And I didn't know that there was a journalist in the room. 623 00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:01,047 And this journalist wrote an article. 624 00:39:01,130 --> 00:39:02,673 The headline of the article said, 625 00:39:02,757 --> 00:39:08,262 "Dave Chappelle is an avid Donald Trump supporter." 626 00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:12,683 Yeah. I had no idea the paper said that. 627 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:14,143 You know how I found out? 628 00:39:14,226 --> 00:39:16,896 My wife called me from Ohio the next morning 629 00:39:16,979 --> 00:39:18,356 in a goddamn panic. 630 00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:21,776 "David. David, what the fuck... 631 00:39:22,943 --> 00:39:24,737 is going on in New York?" 632 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,241 I said, "I've been good, but what have you heard?" 633 00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:40,711 My wife said, "The paper is saying that you're a Donald Trump supporter." 634 00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:42,505 I was like... 635 00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,221 I said, "Don't worry about that shit, baby. 636 00:39:51,639 --> 00:39:53,891 Nobody in their right mind would believe that." 637 00:39:53,974 --> 00:39:57,103 And she said, "No, David, people believe it." 638 00:39:57,186 --> 00:40:00,022 And then she started reading the comments to me. 639 00:40:00,481 --> 00:40:01,857 Oh, they were terrible. 640 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,779 All these black people calling me all kinds of Uncle Toms and shit. 641 00:40:07,988 --> 00:40:12,159 I should tell you, this is a very serious allegation from one black to another. 642 00:40:15,621 --> 00:40:18,666 I was incensed. Uncle Tom? 643 00:40:20,126 --> 00:40:21,544 How am I Uncle Tom, nigga? 644 00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:24,255 You the one that reads the Observer. 645 00:40:27,049 --> 00:40:29,468 Anyway, all this shit goes down. 646 00:40:30,845 --> 00:40:33,472 And Saturday night rolls around, 647 00:40:33,556 --> 00:40:35,307 and now Trump is the president, 648 00:40:35,391 --> 00:40:37,518 and I'm hosting Saturday Night Live. 649 00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:46,652 And I didn't really prepare my monologue. 650 00:40:46,735 --> 00:40:47,987 I just kind of winged it. 651 00:40:49,155 --> 00:40:51,323 At the end of the monologue, I don't even remember what I said. 652 00:40:51,407 --> 00:40:52,741 I said something like, "Fuck it. 653 00:40:52,825 --> 00:40:55,786 We're historically disenfranchised, and we're gonna give him--" 654 00:40:55,870 --> 00:40:57,746 Something about, "We're gonna give him a chance if he gives us a chance." 655 00:40:57,830 --> 00:41:00,416 I don't know what I said, but whatever I said, 656 00:41:00,499 --> 00:41:02,835 I really wish I didn't say that shit. 657 00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:07,423 It was not worth the trouble. 658 00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:10,718 Walking to the barbershop and all them black people be looking at me like, 659 00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:13,429 "Yo, Dave, what's up with your boy?" 660 00:41:13,512 --> 00:41:15,723 Yo, nigga, yo! 661 00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:19,685 He's not my boy. 662 00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:24,940 'Cause I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, if you support him or not, 663 00:41:25,024 --> 00:41:27,818 any objective person is gonna have to admit 664 00:41:27,902 --> 00:41:31,447 that this motherfucker is having a terrible go of it. 665 00:41:35,868 --> 00:41:37,036 He really is. 666 00:41:39,830 --> 00:41:43,334 We've had presidents before that have done bad jobs, 667 00:41:43,417 --> 00:41:45,878 but this shit is worse than a bad job. 668 00:41:46,378 --> 00:41:48,672 It's scary to watch. 669 00:41:49,465 --> 00:41:50,299 Holy shit. 670 00:41:50,382 --> 00:41:54,386 It's like seeing a crack pipe in your Uber driver's passenger seat. 671 00:41:59,391 --> 00:42:01,602 What the fuck is wrong with this guy? 672 00:42:02,561 --> 00:42:05,981 Yo, he is lunching, nigga. I watched... 673 00:42:06,982 --> 00:42:10,945 I watched Donald Trump in a press conference. 674 00:42:11,028 --> 00:42:13,489 And this motherfucker had all the media gathered, 675 00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:15,282 and this nigga literally, 676 00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:18,786 literally asked the media to their face 677 00:42:18,869 --> 00:42:20,496 to stop finding shit out. 678 00:42:20,579 --> 00:42:21,830 I was like, "Yo. 679 00:42:23,290 --> 00:42:25,960 Yo, this motherfucker is bugging." 680 00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:28,921 And then... I'm not even making this up. 681 00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:31,507 His lips started sweating. 682 00:42:32,967 --> 00:42:38,347 His lips. Have you ever seen a motherfucker's lips sweat? 683 00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:41,892 What the fuck is wrong with this nigga's lips? 684 00:42:42,935 --> 00:42:45,813 It's like if you're on a plane, right? You ever been on a plane... 685 00:42:45,896 --> 00:42:49,149 I get scared to fly. I do it all the time. I'll be scared on there. 686 00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:51,569 And sometimes a plane will hit turbulence. 687 00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:54,530 And then I get nervous, but I always look at the flight attendant, 688 00:42:54,613 --> 00:42:57,866 and she looks calm, and it makes me feel calm. 689 00:42:58,951 --> 00:43:01,745 But if that bitch's lips were sweating? 690 00:43:05,249 --> 00:43:07,960 It's terrifying. Like, "Yo, nigga, why are your lips sweating? 691 00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:09,169 What do you know?" 692 00:43:11,505 --> 00:43:12,548 And then... 693 00:43:13,048 --> 00:43:16,135 I'm not making this up. This motherfucker grabbed the podium, he goes, 694 00:43:16,594 --> 00:43:22,099 "You don't know how scary the things I read in my briefings are." 695 00:43:22,182 --> 00:43:25,853 And I was like, "Holy shit, man. You ain't supposed to tell us that, bro." 696 00:43:27,855 --> 00:43:29,607 That's bad leadership. 697 00:43:30,649 --> 00:43:32,735 As a parent, you think I'm gonna sit my kids down, 698 00:43:32,818 --> 00:43:35,821 "Hey, little man, come here real quick. I'm gonna holler at you for a second. 699 00:43:35,904 --> 00:43:36,822 Yo... 700 00:43:39,867 --> 00:43:41,452 I'm three months behind on the rent, nigga, 701 00:43:41,535 --> 00:43:44,538 and I am worried. 702 00:43:44,913 --> 00:43:45,998 Very worried. 703 00:43:47,750 --> 00:43:49,627 Go on, go to school and have a productive day. 704 00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:52,838 I was just thinking out loud. Getting some shit off my chest." 705 00:43:52,921 --> 00:43:55,633 I'm like, "What the fuck are you doing, bro?" 706 00:43:58,135 --> 00:43:59,595 This is bad, man. 707 00:44:04,016 --> 00:44:05,976 Jesus Christ. 708 00:44:07,561 --> 00:44:12,024 All this motherfucker's ideas sound like "high people" ideas. 709 00:44:13,108 --> 00:44:15,486 He doesn't think these things through before he tells us. 710 00:44:15,569 --> 00:44:17,988 He tells us what he's thinking as soon as it occurs to him. 711 00:44:18,072 --> 00:44:19,490 That shit sounds nuts. 712 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,993 "I'm gonna go to China, 713 00:44:23,202 --> 00:44:25,496 and I'm gonna get those jobs from China and bring them back here to America." 714 00:44:31,043 --> 00:44:34,546 For what, nigga? So iPhones can be $9,000? 715 00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:38,592 Leave that job in China where it belongs. 716 00:44:38,676 --> 00:44:40,761 None of us want to work that hard. 717 00:44:42,805 --> 00:44:44,306 What the fuck is he thinking? 718 00:44:47,643 --> 00:44:50,104 I want to wear Nikes. I don't want to make them shits. 719 00:44:50,187 --> 00:44:51,730 What the fuck are you doing? 720 00:44:54,316 --> 00:44:57,695 Stop trying to give us Chinese jobs. 721 00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:03,867 "I am going to bring back coal." 722 00:45:03,951 --> 00:45:05,536 Coal?! 723 00:45:07,621 --> 00:45:09,289 I'm not even exaggerating... 724 00:45:09,498 --> 00:45:15,379 I have never in my life even seen a fucking lump of coal. 725 00:45:17,131 --> 00:45:20,259 I honestly don't even know what coal is for. 726 00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:25,931 If you gonna have motherfuckers digging in the dirt looking for shit, 727 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:29,059 find me some truffles, nigga. That's what I'm about. 728 00:45:30,728 --> 00:45:33,605 At least truffle prices are getting out of control. 729 00:45:34,898 --> 00:45:35,816 If it gets any worse, 730 00:45:35,899 --> 00:45:38,944 I'm gonna be back down to regular butter like everybody else. 731 00:45:43,323 --> 00:45:44,867 Terrible, terrible job. 732 00:45:47,077 --> 00:45:50,622 This motherfucker hit North Korea with rap battle threats. 733 00:45:50,706 --> 00:45:51,957 "Fire and Fury." 734 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:56,336 Like, "Yo! Yo, what you doing?" 735 00:46:01,425 --> 00:46:03,260 This is fucking Korea, man. 736 00:46:04,386 --> 00:46:06,680 Kim Jong-un is a scary motherfucker. 737 00:46:06,764 --> 00:46:09,224 He might be as crazy as Trump. 738 00:46:12,936 --> 00:46:14,188 Some scary shit. 739 00:46:14,980 --> 00:46:17,232 And if you one of them naive motherfuckers that thinks 740 00:46:17,316 --> 00:46:19,443 that a war with Korea is gonna be easy, 741 00:46:19,526 --> 00:46:23,697 then you don't play Call of Duty at three a.m. like I do. 742 00:46:24,615 --> 00:46:26,408 'Cause that's when the Koreans play. 743 00:46:27,701 --> 00:46:28,994 Fucking eight-year-old Korean kid 744 00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:31,455 took out my whole goddamn platoon last night. 745 00:46:40,881 --> 00:46:43,300 I've never seen somebody in an office so high 746 00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:46,053 with the most just basic fucking solutions. 747 00:46:46,136 --> 00:46:47,137 Like, you know... 748 00:46:47,638 --> 00:46:50,557 "We should not let any more Muslims in the country 749 00:46:50,641 --> 00:46:52,768 till we can figure out what's going on." 750 00:46:52,851 --> 00:46:56,563 Did he just say, "Figure out what's going on"? 751 00:46:57,689 --> 00:47:00,234 Who doesn't know how to do basic math? 752 00:47:00,317 --> 00:47:02,027 Let's count it out, okay? 753 00:47:02,110 --> 00:47:05,030 It's been 17 mass shootings in the United States. 754 00:47:05,197 --> 00:47:07,241 Four of them were done by Muslims. 755 00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,952 None of those four Muslims were from any of the seven countries 756 00:47:10,035 --> 00:47:12,287 in your stupid-ass original ban. 757 00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:23,006 And since he brought it up, the other 13 shootings 758 00:47:23,423 --> 00:47:25,592 were done by the tiki-torch whites. 759 00:47:28,887 --> 00:47:29,972 These are facts. 760 00:47:30,681 --> 00:47:33,475 You don't see me trying to ban white people from the show 761 00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:35,811 to keep the rest of the audience safe. 762 00:47:36,895 --> 00:47:40,399 It's a fucking terrible idea, because it's mean and it's racist. 763 00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:41,984 And most importantly... 764 00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:45,863 it would be catastrophic to my bottom line. 765 00:47:49,575 --> 00:47:51,034 If there were no white people here tonight, 766 00:47:51,118 --> 00:47:53,871 I might leave this bitch with $1,800. 767 00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:58,041 This man needs to realize 768 00:47:58,125 --> 00:47:59,960 that we all need each other. 769 00:48:00,252 --> 00:48:04,673 And that's why we will never, ever be able to beat China. 770 00:48:04,756 --> 00:48:07,009 Because everybody in America is racist, 771 00:48:07,092 --> 00:48:09,428 and everybody in China is Chinese. 772 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,642 This motherfucker called it all wrong. 773 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:19,062 And don't believe the media either, 'cause as all this shit is happening, 774 00:48:19,146 --> 00:48:21,356 the media is trying to make us believe 775 00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,651 that the extremities amongst us are the norms. 776 00:48:24,735 --> 00:48:27,112 We can disagree, that's fine. 777 00:48:27,362 --> 00:48:30,699 And most of us are keeping a cool head about this shit. 778 00:48:30,991 --> 00:48:31,825 You know what I mean? 779 00:48:31,909 --> 00:48:35,120 Americans generally respect one another's beliefs, 780 00:48:35,203 --> 00:48:36,830 even if they don't share those beliefs. 781 00:48:36,914 --> 00:48:39,833 I know I do. I respect everybody's beliefs, 782 00:48:39,917 --> 00:48:41,501 except Amish people. 783 00:48:43,962 --> 00:48:46,673 'Cause they are the only ones that I can say clearly, 784 00:48:46,757 --> 00:48:48,050 "Their God is wrong." 785 00:48:51,178 --> 00:48:55,933 Speed limit is 75 miles an hour in Ohio, 786 00:48:56,016 --> 00:49:01,688 and one lane of traffic is blocked by a goddamn horse and buggy. 787 00:49:03,023 --> 00:49:04,816 Nigga, your God is ridiculous. 788 00:49:09,279 --> 00:49:11,782 All the Amish people around my way know me, too. 789 00:49:11,865 --> 00:49:13,992 Not from television, obviously. 790 00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:18,872 They know me from the streets. 791 00:49:20,248 --> 00:49:23,835 'Cause when I see them horse and buggies, I pull the Porsche over and talk to 'em. 792 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,798 "Ezekiel. 793 00:49:29,883 --> 00:49:31,551 Ezekiel, are you sure 794 00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:34,972 that God doesn't want you to have any of this technology or this energy? 795 00:49:35,681 --> 00:49:36,682 Huh? 796 00:49:37,140 --> 00:49:38,016 Hmm? 797 00:49:39,184 --> 00:49:40,102 Huh? 798 00:49:40,352 --> 00:49:42,479 I can't hear you. Let me turn this air conditioner off. 799 00:49:42,562 --> 00:49:43,814 What did you say?" 800 00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:50,320 And them niggas be like, "Get away from me, ye. 801 00:49:51,321 --> 00:49:55,200 Ye tried to tempt me like the devil." 802 00:49:55,826 --> 00:49:56,702 "Devil? 803 00:49:57,285 --> 00:50:00,455 Nah, bro. I'm trying to put you onto the game, Zeke. 804 00:50:01,540 --> 00:50:05,794 It's a big world out here, nigga. I just went 25 miles in 30 minutes. 805 00:50:06,586 --> 00:50:08,296 That's a day's journey for you. 806 00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:14,219 You don't even know what the weather's gonna be tomorrow, do you? 807 00:50:16,138 --> 00:50:16,972 I do. 808 00:50:18,765 --> 00:50:22,853 You don't even know that there's a valuable Pokémon on your shoulder. 809 00:50:22,936 --> 00:50:24,229 Ta-ta." 810 00:50:24,730 --> 00:50:26,106 And then I drive away. 811 00:50:31,486 --> 00:50:33,655 Yeah, I want to hit it. 812 00:50:33,739 --> 00:50:35,365 You want to hit my vape pen? 813 00:50:35,949 --> 00:50:39,244 Oh, sorry, nigga, I'm trying not to get herpes. My bad. 814 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,543 I've been playing cat-and-mouse with herpes for 30 years now, but... 815 00:50:47,127 --> 00:50:50,047 Every night, I go to the club, I be like, "Not tonight, herpes." 816 00:50:53,550 --> 00:50:55,677 No disrespect. I'm not saying you have herpes. 817 00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:59,556 I'm just saying one out of five people do, so let's just... 818 00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:03,226 Let's just all be careful around this motherfucker and make sure that... 819 00:51:03,769 --> 00:51:05,896 we leave with the lips we came with. 820 00:51:14,654 --> 00:51:17,616 Sometimes I think that the media is hard on Trump. 821 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,661 'Cause I'll see shit that they get on him about that doesn't seem bad to me. 822 00:51:22,287 --> 00:51:23,955 Nigga got into trouble about 823 00:51:24,498 --> 00:51:26,500 not staying in the White House enough. 824 00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:28,794 Who gives a fuck? This motherfucker was rich. 825 00:51:29,628 --> 00:51:31,463 He used to shit in a gold toilet. 826 00:51:32,964 --> 00:51:35,133 It's true. I don't know if you've ever been to the White House. 827 00:51:35,217 --> 00:51:37,385 It looks like a very nice place to work, but... 828 00:51:38,053 --> 00:51:40,180 I wouldn't want to live in that Scooby-Doo-ass house either. 829 00:51:40,263 --> 00:51:43,350 That shit is... terrifying looking. 830 00:51:44,601 --> 00:51:46,228 Imagine you trying to jerk off in the crib, 831 00:51:46,311 --> 00:51:48,230 and Abraham Lincoln's just looking at you like... 832 00:51:57,155 --> 00:51:59,366 Shit, Bush didn't stay there, either. He was rich, too. 833 00:51:59,449 --> 00:52:01,868 He was like, "Fuck that. I'm going to my ranch in Texas." 834 00:52:02,410 --> 00:52:05,247 Obama was the first motherfucker to move into the White House like, 835 00:52:05,330 --> 00:52:06,748 "This is a nice place. 836 00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:09,543 Look at this rug." 837 00:52:20,470 --> 00:52:23,473 The media got on him about putting Jared Kushner in his cabinet, 838 00:52:23,557 --> 00:52:25,517 and I didn't think that that was the worst thing he'd done. 839 00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:26,977 I mean, it was still early. 840 00:52:27,727 --> 00:52:28,770 It's not unprecedented. 841 00:52:28,854 --> 00:52:31,857 Kennedy had his brother as attorney general, right? 842 00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:33,942 This motherfucker's a Washington outsider. 843 00:52:34,025 --> 00:52:36,236 To be honest with you, I'd probably do the same thing. 844 00:52:36,862 --> 00:52:38,280 As a matter of fact, I do. 845 00:52:38,905 --> 00:52:43,076 You think I go to a Hollywood meeting with all them white folks by myself? 846 00:52:44,536 --> 00:52:47,247 I bring my nigga Mac Mittens from the streets. 847 00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:49,916 I don't even know his real name. 848 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,210 Everybody just calls him Mac Mittens. 849 00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:56,548 But I know he's not qualified to even listen to these meetings, 850 00:52:56,631 --> 00:53:00,135 but this motherfucker just makes me feel good. 851 00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:01,803 And all the white people look at me like, 852 00:53:01,887 --> 00:53:04,181 "Dave, do you mind asking your friend Mac Mittens 853 00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:06,766 to excuse us so we can talk business?" 854 00:53:06,850 --> 00:53:08,268 And I say, "Fuck that. 855 00:53:09,102 --> 00:53:12,105 Anything you say to me, Mac Mittens can hear that shit." 856 00:53:13,857 --> 00:53:16,067 And he listened to the whole meeting. 857 00:53:16,526 --> 00:53:18,445 When they done talking, I just look over to Mac Mittens, 858 00:53:18,528 --> 00:53:20,780 and if he gives me the signal... "Meow-meow!" 859 00:53:22,532 --> 00:53:23,867 I'll sign the papers. 860 00:53:25,619 --> 00:53:26,828 It's a gut check. 861 00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:29,414 Or how about this one? 862 00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:32,542 Remember when it was the day after the election, 863 00:53:32,626 --> 00:53:35,879 and the president of Taiwan called Donald Trump to congratulate him? 864 00:53:36,838 --> 00:53:39,257 And Donald Trump, of course, took the call 865 00:53:39,341 --> 00:53:41,384 and talked to the president of Taiwan. 866 00:53:41,676 --> 00:53:43,345 The problem with that was... 867 00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:45,972 Taiwan doesn't have a president. 868 00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:51,811 The United States functions on what they call "a one China policy," 869 00:53:51,895 --> 00:53:55,482 and Taiwan is a renegade province of said China. 870 00:53:55,565 --> 00:53:57,651 And Donald Trump didn't know that, 871 00:53:57,734 --> 00:54:01,154 and picked up the phone and started yammering away, and... 872 00:54:01,863 --> 00:54:04,491 the media ate his ass up. And I'm not gonna lie, 873 00:54:05,075 --> 00:54:06,201 I was laughing, I was like, 874 00:54:06,284 --> 00:54:09,663 "Oh, shit. This dumb motherfucker is in trouble." 875 00:54:13,333 --> 00:54:16,044 And then that night, I was in bed drifting off to sleep, 876 00:54:16,127 --> 00:54:19,381 and then, I had to admit it to myself. I was like... 877 00:54:21,132 --> 00:54:23,093 "I didn't know that shit, either." 878 00:54:28,682 --> 00:54:31,559 And then I realized the media got the story wrong. 879 00:54:31,643 --> 00:54:34,229 The story wasn't that Donald Trump took the call. 880 00:54:34,312 --> 00:54:41,027 The biggest story is that nobody told Donald Trump not to take the call. 881 00:54:41,111 --> 00:54:42,195 That's terrifying. 882 00:54:42,279 --> 00:54:44,948 Goddamn, nigga, you don't have a Mac Mittens on your team? 883 00:54:48,159 --> 00:54:49,619 It wasn't like they were calling the White House. 884 00:54:49,703 --> 00:54:51,579 They were calling the switchboard at Trump Tower, 885 00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:53,456 and they were getting through, anybody. 886 00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:57,127 "Mr. President, there's a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi on the phone for you." 887 00:54:57,210 --> 00:54:58,378 "Yes, put him through. 888 00:54:58,461 --> 00:55:00,297 Hello. Hello, Rikki-Tikki. 889 00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:01,715 Good to talk to you." 890 00:55:02,257 --> 00:55:05,176 "Mr. President, there's a John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt on the phone." 891 00:55:05,802 --> 00:55:08,096 "His name is my name, too. Put him through. 892 00:55:08,179 --> 00:55:11,016 Hello. Hello, John Jacob. Let's talk business." 893 00:55:15,603 --> 00:55:17,355 How many people in this room 894 00:55:17,814 --> 00:55:20,191 are not originally from the United States? 895 00:55:20,817 --> 00:55:23,695 -Round of applause. 896 00:55:23,778 --> 00:55:25,405 Where are you from, bro? You right there. 897 00:55:25,488 --> 00:55:26,323 Iraq. 898 00:55:26,406 --> 00:55:28,742 You're from Iraq? Ewww! 899 00:55:31,494 --> 00:55:32,704 I'm just fucking around. 900 00:55:32,787 --> 00:55:35,040 How long you been here in the country? 901 00:55:35,373 --> 00:55:36,207 Twenty-three years. 902 00:55:36,291 --> 00:55:38,126 Twenty Are you a citizen yet? 903 00:55:38,209 --> 00:55:41,546 You are? Congratulations, nigga. Congratulations. 904 00:55:42,714 --> 00:55:44,758 Well, welcome to this great land. 905 00:55:47,177 --> 00:55:48,970 You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson, 906 00:55:49,429 --> 00:55:51,931 'cause I'm sure this wasn't on your entry exam. 907 00:55:52,724 --> 00:55:54,309 But every naturalized American 908 00:55:54,392 --> 00:55:56,728 has heard something about what I'm about to tell you. 909 00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:00,023 Picture, it's the early '50s in the United States. 910 00:56:00,106 --> 00:56:02,317 This 14-year-old boy goes down... 911 00:56:03,151 --> 00:56:04,903 from Chicago to Mississippi 912 00:56:05,403 --> 00:56:07,655 to meet his extended family for the first time. 913 00:56:07,739 --> 00:56:08,656 He'd never been to Mississippi. 914 00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:12,243 And before he went, his mother said to him, 915 00:56:12,327 --> 00:56:13,870 very pointedly, she said, 916 00:56:13,953 --> 00:56:19,250 "If a white man looks you in your eyes in Mississippi, look away." 917 00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:23,338 And I don't know what you know about black people from Chicago, 918 00:56:23,421 --> 00:56:26,341 but they're not a scared people. 919 00:56:28,635 --> 00:56:31,429 Legend has it, he was in front of a convenience store, 920 00:56:31,513 --> 00:56:34,099 hanging out with his cousins, having a good time, 921 00:56:34,432 --> 00:56:37,477 and a white woman walked out of the store, 922 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,897 and he thought she was pretty, and he said... 923 00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:42,774 "Bye, baby." 924 00:56:43,566 --> 00:56:47,195 Not realizing that he had just made a fatal mistake. 925 00:56:47,946 --> 00:56:49,364 Four days later... 926 00:56:49,906 --> 00:56:53,451 Four days later, a group of adult white men 927 00:56:54,035 --> 00:56:55,787 burst into this family's home 928 00:56:55,870 --> 00:56:59,332 and snatched a 14-year-old boy out of bed, 929 00:56:59,416 --> 00:57:03,211 in front of his family that was powerless to stop them, 930 00:57:03,294 --> 00:57:06,714 and he was never seen alive again. 931 00:57:07,382 --> 00:57:09,592 His name was Emmett Till. 932 00:57:10,635 --> 00:57:13,513 They found his body maybe a few days later. 933 00:57:13,888 --> 00:57:14,973 It was in a creek, 934 00:57:15,223 --> 00:57:17,392 tied to a wheel so it would sink, 935 00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,477 horribly beaten and bloated. 936 00:57:19,811 --> 00:57:20,728 Hideous. 937 00:57:21,604 --> 00:57:23,815 And lucky for everybody in America... 938 00:57:24,607 --> 00:57:28,778 his mother was a fucking gangster. 939 00:57:30,655 --> 00:57:31,489 She was. 940 00:57:37,328 --> 00:57:38,329 If you can imagine, 941 00:57:38,413 --> 00:57:41,499 in the very midst of a mother's worst nightmare, 942 00:57:41,583 --> 00:57:44,794 this woman had the foresight to think about everybody. 943 00:57:45,128 --> 00:57:47,755 She said, "Leave my son's casket open." 944 00:57:48,631 --> 00:57:52,802 She said, "The world needs to see what they did to my baby." 945 00:57:53,761 --> 00:57:56,097 And every publication here in the United States, 946 00:57:56,181 --> 00:57:59,309 from Jet magazine all the way to the New York Times, 947 00:57:59,392 --> 00:58:02,979 had this boy's horribly bloated body on its cover. 948 00:58:03,062 --> 00:58:06,608 And if our Civil Rights Movement was a car, 949 00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,320 this boy's dead body was premium gas. 950 00:58:10,403 --> 00:58:13,281 This was a very definitive moment in American history, 951 00:58:13,364 --> 00:58:15,366 where every thinking and feeling person was like... 952 00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:18,077 "Yuck! We gotta do better than this." 953 00:58:18,536 --> 00:58:21,247 And they fought beautifully, and here we all are. 954 00:58:27,670 --> 00:58:31,925 And the reason that I bring that up tonight 955 00:58:32,008 --> 00:58:35,386 and why it's relevant now, is because less than a year ago, 956 00:58:35,470 --> 00:58:37,597 the woman that he allegedly whistled at... 957 00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:40,934 admitted on her deathbed... 958 00:58:41,601 --> 00:58:45,188 that she lied in her court testimony. 959 00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:48,608 And you can imagine, when we read that shit, 960 00:58:48,691 --> 00:58:52,987 we was like, "Ooh! You lying-ass, bitch." 961 00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:56,491 Was furious. 962 00:58:57,450 --> 00:58:59,827 That was my initial reaction. 963 00:58:59,911 --> 00:59:02,539 And initial reactions, we all learned as we get older, 964 00:59:02,622 --> 00:59:06,626 are often wrong or more often incomplete. 965 00:59:06,709 --> 00:59:10,630 They call this phenomenon "standing too close to an elephant." 966 00:59:10,713 --> 00:59:13,883 The analogy being that if you stand too close to an elephant, 967 00:59:13,967 --> 00:59:15,677 you can't see the elephant. 968 00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:19,055 All you see is its penis-like skin. 969 00:59:21,432 --> 00:59:24,352 You gotta step back and give it a better look. 970 00:59:24,435 --> 00:59:27,981 And on stepping back and thinking about it for a few moments, 971 00:59:28,064 --> 00:59:31,985 I realized that it must have been very difficult for this woman 972 00:59:32,068 --> 00:59:35,863 to tell a truth that heinous about herself at any point in her life. 973 00:59:35,947 --> 00:59:37,282 Even the very end. 974 00:59:37,532 --> 00:59:39,075 And I was grateful 975 00:59:39,158 --> 00:59:41,828 that she had the courage to tell it before she left this world. 976 00:59:41,911 --> 00:59:43,413 Because it's an important truth 977 00:59:43,997 --> 00:59:45,456 and we needed to know. 978 00:59:45,540 --> 00:59:48,751 And I said to myself, "Well, thank you for telling the truth... 979 00:59:49,252 --> 00:59:51,671 you lying-ass bitch." 980 00:59:56,259 --> 00:59:59,220 And then time goes on, 981 00:59:59,304 --> 01:00:02,974 and then after time, you can kind of see the whole elephant. 982 01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:04,642 And it's humbling. 983 01:00:05,018 --> 01:00:07,437 'Cause you realize that this woman lied 984 01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:09,981 and that lie caused a murder. 985 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,944 But that murder set in motion a sequence of events 986 01:00:15,486 --> 01:00:17,822 that made my wonderful life possible. 987 01:00:17,905 --> 01:00:19,949 That made this very night possible. 988 01:00:20,033 --> 01:00:26,205 How could this be that this lie could make the world a better place? 989 01:00:26,414 --> 01:00:27,540 It's maddening. 990 01:00:28,374 --> 01:00:31,252 And that's how I feel about this president. 991 01:00:32,420 --> 01:00:38,301 I feel like this motherfucker might be the lie that saves us all. 992 01:00:39,719 --> 01:00:43,556 Because I have never felt more American 993 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,893 than when we all hate on this motherfucker together. 994 01:00:47,477 --> 01:00:50,563 Jesus Christ. It's good. 995 01:00:52,065 --> 01:00:56,486 And when it happens, I can see everybody that's stuggling. 996 01:00:57,278 --> 01:00:58,363 So if I'm on stage 997 01:00:58,446 --> 01:01:01,157 and I tell a joke that makes you want to beat up a transgender, 998 01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,619 then you're probably a piece of shit and don't come see me anymore. 999 01:01:05,620 --> 01:01:07,914 Or if you don't understand that when a football player 1000 01:01:07,997 --> 01:01:09,916 takes a knee during the national anthem, 1001 01:01:09,999 --> 01:01:12,418 he's actually standing up for me, then you might not want to fuck with me anymore. 1002 01:01:16,881 --> 01:01:19,467 'Cause I swear no matter how bad it gets, 1003 01:01:20,051 --> 01:01:21,636 you're my countrymen, 1004 01:01:21,719 --> 01:01:25,431 and I know for a fact that I'm determined to work shit out with y'all. 1005 01:01:25,515 --> 01:01:29,143 And if that woman that said that heinous lie was alive today, 1006 01:01:29,227 --> 01:01:31,354 I would thank her for lying. 1007 01:01:31,938 --> 01:01:34,357 And then I would kick her in the pussy. 1008 01:01:34,649 --> 01:01:36,859 Thank you very much, Washington, DC. 1009 01:01:37,443 --> 01:01:40,279 God bless you and good night. 1010 01:01:58,923 --> 01:02:01,300 ♪ Reaching through the darkness... ♪ 1011 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:11,936 ♪ Just like Him Breaking through the darkness ♪ 1012 01:02:12,019 --> 01:02:14,605 ♪ Hey, yo, Material All right, could dry the tears ♪ 1013 01:02:14,689 --> 01:02:17,483 ♪ Of a thousand peers For a thousand years ♪ 1014 01:02:17,567 --> 01:02:19,986 ♪ And a thousand cheers Born to erase my fears ♪ 1015 01:02:20,069 --> 01:02:22,822 ♪ I'm better off living life Where Jesus is ♪ 1016 01:02:22,905 --> 01:02:25,950 ♪ Not an atheist But them Christian kids ♪ 1017 01:02:26,033 --> 01:02:28,536 ♪ A little too judgmental About my sins ♪ 1018 01:02:28,619 --> 01:02:32,123 ♪ And I aim to win But I miss the mark ♪ 1019 01:02:32,206 --> 01:02:34,208 ♪ Paul, Peter and Joseph Will now depart ♪ 1020 01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:37,587 ♪ But I follow my heart Without any disguise ♪ 1021 01:02:37,670 --> 01:02:40,381 ♪ Blood dripping from my sleeve 'Cause my heart don't see ♪ 1022 01:02:40,465 --> 01:02:43,760 ♪ That intentions are public With smiles and positivity ♪ ♪ Behind a fake is a snake That could murder me, murder! ♪ 1023 01:02:47,221 --> 01:02:49,390 ♪ Life's filled With things you never heard-a ♪ 1024 01:02:49,474 --> 01:02:52,351 ♪ Been trying to get in Since niggas was really word up ♪ 1025 01:02:52,435 --> 01:02:54,896 ♪ Struggles that I've been through Make the average man curl up ♪ 1026 01:02:54,979 --> 01:02:58,232 ♪ Godson, "Coming, Grandma" Saying, "Hurry up!" ♪ 1027 01:02:58,316 --> 01:02:59,942 -♪ Yeah! ♪ 1028 01:03:01,944 --> 01:03:06,574 ♪ Reaching out for dreams Just like me ♪ 1029 01:03:07,617 --> 01:03:10,620 ♪ Reaching through the darkness ♪ 1030 01:03:10,703 --> 01:03:15,374 ♪ Glorious as a daybreak is ♪ 1031 01:03:16,083 --> 01:03:20,463 ♪ Just like Him Ringing through the darkness ♪ 1032 01:03:20,546 --> 01:03:22,006 ♪ Hey, yo Scriptures I spit ♪ 1033 01:03:22,089 --> 01:03:23,800 ♪ They be glossy in nature ♪ 1034 01:03:23,883 --> 01:03:26,636 ♪ Themes that I dream in my mind Might save ya ♪ 1035 01:03:26,719 --> 01:03:29,430 ♪ I am no savior Seen as an ambassador ♪ 1036 01:03:29,514 --> 01:03:32,725 ♪ And dance around the bull With a cape like a matador ♪