1 00:00:30,447 --> 00:00:34,284 [audience cheering and applauding] 2 00:01:21,289 --> 00:01:23,875 [audience cheering] 3 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:40,432 [Dave] All right. 4 00:01:43,186 --> 00:01:45,021 Almost 24 years ago... 5 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:49,651 it was the last time I was on the stage in this room. 6 00:01:50,235 --> 00:01:52,862 [audience cheering] 7 00:01:52,946 --> 00:01:55,490 I was taping my first one-hour special. 8 00:01:55,573 --> 00:01:57,367 It was called Killin' Them Softly. 9 00:01:59,953 --> 00:02:03,331 My girlfriend was sitting in that row, pregnant. 10 00:02:03,414 --> 00:02:05,041 She's now my wife. 11 00:02:10,004 --> 00:02:14,134 The baby that she was carrying, my first child... 12 00:02:15,218 --> 00:02:17,178 I smoke weed with that nigga now. 13 00:02:25,395 --> 00:02:29,774 And what I remember most about that night was the pressure. 14 00:02:29,858 --> 00:02:32,318 Before the show, I had to run out on the avenue 15 00:02:32,402 --> 00:02:34,571 and hand out tickets to anybody who would take 'em 16 00:02:34,654 --> 00:02:36,865 'cause I couldn't even fill the fucking room. 17 00:02:37,574 --> 00:02:42,078 And, boy, what a difference 24 short years makes. 18 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,047 And right before that time, my father had died. 19 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:55,466 He never lived to see me do it. 20 00:02:56,593 --> 00:02:59,596 And when he died, I was inconsolable. 21 00:03:00,346 --> 00:03:02,432 I thought I'd never smile or laugh again. 22 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:05,727 And the only thing that got me out of that space 23 00:03:05,810 --> 00:03:09,397 was a comedian friend of mine, the late, great Norm MacDonald. 24 00:03:11,107 --> 00:03:13,443 That's right, shout out for Norm. 25 00:03:14,611 --> 00:03:17,196 And what Norm did, which I'll never forget, 26 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,866 as he knew that I was the biggest Jim Carrey fan in the world. 27 00:03:19,949 --> 00:03:21,200 I'm not gonna go into it, 28 00:03:21,284 --> 00:03:25,204 but Jim Carrey is talented in a way that you can't practice or rehearse. 29 00:03:25,288 --> 00:03:28,249 What a God-given talent. I was fascinated with him. 30 00:03:28,791 --> 00:03:32,170 And Norm knew that. He called me up, and he goes, "Dave, I'm..." 31 00:03:32,253 --> 00:03:34,672 He says, "I'm doing a movie with Jim Carrey..." 32 00:03:35,965 --> 00:03:39,636 "Do you want to meet him?" And I said, "Fuck, yes, I do." 33 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:44,140 It was the first time I could remember, since my father died, being excited. 34 00:03:45,099 --> 00:03:48,937 And the movie was called Man on the Moon. I didn't know any of this. 35 00:03:49,604 --> 00:03:52,440 In this movie, Jim Carrey was playing another comedian I admired. 36 00:03:52,523 --> 00:03:54,150 The late, great Andy Kaufman. 37 00:03:55,485 --> 00:03:59,239 Yes, and Jim Carrey was so immersed in that role, 38 00:03:59,322 --> 00:04:01,407 that from the moment he woke up, 39 00:04:01,491 --> 00:04:04,494 to the time he went to bed at night, he would live his life 40 00:04:05,161 --> 00:04:06,913 as Andy Kaufman. 41 00:04:06,996 --> 00:04:07,996 I didn't know that. 42 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:10,333 When they said, "Cut," this nigga was still... 43 00:04:12,126 --> 00:04:13,126 Andy Kaufman. 44 00:04:13,670 --> 00:04:17,757 So much so that everybody on the crew called him Andy. 45 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:20,134 I didn't know that. I just went to meet him. 46 00:04:20,218 --> 00:04:23,846 When he walked into the room we were to meet, I screamed, "Jim Carrey!" 47 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:25,473 And everyone said, "No!" 48 00:04:28,434 --> 00:04:30,061 "Call him Andy." 49 00:04:31,229 --> 00:04:32,480 And I didn't understand. 50 00:04:32,563 --> 00:04:35,566 He came over and was acting weird. I didn't know he was acting like Kaufman. 51 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:38,987 Just like, "Hey, how you doing?" And I was like, "Hello... 52 00:04:42,115 --> 00:04:43,115 Andy?" 53 00:04:44,826 --> 00:04:45,826 Now... 54 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:49,247 in hindsight, how fucking lucky am I 55 00:04:49,330 --> 00:04:51,916 that I got to see one of the greatest artists of my time 56 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,295 immersed in one of his most challenging processes ever? 57 00:04:55,378 --> 00:04:57,088 Very lucky to have seen that. 58 00:04:58,506 --> 00:04:59,799 But as it was happening... 59 00:05:02,218 --> 00:05:03,428 I was very disappointed. 60 00:05:06,055 --> 00:05:07,932 Because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey, 61 00:05:09,350 --> 00:05:13,896 and I had to pretend this nigga was Andy Kaufman all afternoon. 62 00:05:15,648 --> 00:05:16,983 It was clearly Jim Carrey. 63 00:05:17,066 --> 00:05:19,986 I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey. 64 00:05:20,862 --> 00:05:25,700 Anyway, I say all that to say... that's how trans people make me feel. 65 00:05:39,922 --> 00:05:40,922 Here we go. 66 00:05:45,219 --> 00:05:48,306 Now, if you guys came here to this show tonight... 67 00:05:52,018 --> 00:05:54,729 thinking that I'm gonna make fun of those people again, 68 00:05:56,105 --> 00:05:57,815 you've come to the wrong show. 69 00:05:59,358 --> 00:06:01,944 I'm not fucking with those people anymore. 70 00:06:03,112 --> 00:06:04,530 It wasn't worth the trouble. 71 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:07,200 I ain't saying shit about them. 72 00:06:07,283 --> 00:06:10,453 Maybe three or four times tonight, but that is it. 73 00:06:14,123 --> 00:06:15,666 Tired of talking about them. 74 00:06:17,335 --> 00:06:19,796 You wanna know why I'm tired of talking about 'em? 75 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:24,050 Because these people acted like I needed them to be funny. 76 00:06:24,133 --> 00:06:25,426 Well, that's ridiculous. 77 00:06:26,511 --> 00:06:28,554 I don't need you. I've got a whole new angle. 78 00:06:28,638 --> 00:06:30,723 You guys will never see this shit coming. 79 00:06:31,599 --> 00:06:35,186 I ain't doing trans jokes no more. Know what I'mma do tonight? Tonight... 80 00:06:35,895 --> 00:06:37,855 I'm doing all handicapped jokes. 81 00:06:40,483 --> 00:06:42,860 Well, they're not as organized as the gays. 82 00:06:44,112 --> 00:06:45,738 And I love punching down. 83 00:06:46,489 --> 00:06:50,868 There's probably a handicap in the back 'cause that's where they make them sit. 84 00:07:00,670 --> 00:07:03,005 "I came here to laugh at transgender people." 85 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:06,926 "I didn't know this nigga was gonna make jokes about us." 86 00:07:07,301 --> 00:07:09,887 "Come on, y'all, Let's get the fuck up out of here." 87 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:22,525 Yeah, it's about time somebody let these handicaps have it. 88 00:07:24,193 --> 00:07:26,404 Nigga met their match tonight. Fuck 'em. 89 00:07:27,405 --> 00:07:29,157 One time I was on Capitol Hill, 90 00:07:30,741 --> 00:07:32,618 and I seen a handicapped congressman. 91 00:07:34,078 --> 00:07:36,956 - Madison Cawthorn, that's his name. - [woman] Oh! 92 00:07:41,961 --> 00:07:44,046 He's a Republican from North Carolina. 93 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:45,673 And he was shocked 94 00:07:45,756 --> 00:07:48,134 'cause I saw him and I go, "Hello, Congressman." 95 00:07:48,217 --> 00:07:50,636 He didn't even know I knew who he was. He turned... 96 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:54,807 Then I just walked away. 97 00:07:56,309 --> 00:07:58,811 I wanted him to see me do something he couldn't do. 98 00:08:01,481 --> 00:08:02,481 I skipped. 99 00:08:05,943 --> 00:08:07,153 That nigga was mad. 100 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:17,538 He's no longer a congressman. 101 00:08:18,456 --> 00:08:20,291 I don't know if you follow politics. 102 00:08:20,416 --> 00:08:23,336 I'm not trying to be funny, but he lost his seat. 103 00:08:27,173 --> 00:08:28,674 He ran a bad race. 104 00:08:31,010 --> 00:08:33,095 Oh, buddy, yes, he did. 105 00:08:33,888 --> 00:08:35,264 You know what he did wrong? 106 00:08:35,348 --> 00:08:36,766 He was running for Congress again, 107 00:08:36,849 --> 00:08:38,893 and this motherfucker tried to be controversial. 108 00:08:38,976 --> 00:08:41,938 He was on all them right wing podcast talking all that shit. 109 00:08:42,021 --> 00:08:46,651 He was like, "Washington is worse than Hollywood." 110 00:08:46,734 --> 00:08:48,194 I was at home, like, "What?" 111 00:08:49,445 --> 00:08:51,447 He said, "These people are disgusting." 112 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:54,492 "They have orgies and sex parties and drug parties." 113 00:08:54,575 --> 00:08:57,537 And I was thinking, "This nigga sounds like Juicy Smoo-yay." 114 00:09:01,749 --> 00:09:02,583 He's lying. 115 00:09:02,667 --> 00:09:06,712 Now, I don't doubt that they do this kind of shit in Washington, 116 00:09:06,796 --> 00:09:09,006 but I doubt he's seen it with his own eyes. 117 00:09:10,341 --> 00:09:14,512 Because who the fuck invites a paraplegic to an orgy? 118 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:18,641 So this nigga can roll around and snitch on everybody? 119 00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:20,725 [mouthing] 120 00:09:31,862 --> 00:09:34,824 I said there's only one reason you gonna invite him to an orgy. 121 00:09:34,907 --> 00:09:36,409 And you know what that is. 122 00:09:36,492 --> 00:09:38,619 "Have at it, guys, I can't feel anything." 123 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:41,831 "Let's get this bill passed for America." 124 00:09:41,914 --> 00:09:43,332 "One at a time, folks." 125 00:09:48,504 --> 00:09:49,589 Oh, buddy. 126 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:53,843 Yep, yep, yep. 127 00:09:55,136 --> 00:09:57,888 The other handicaps are the new people I punch down on. 128 00:09:57,972 --> 00:09:59,307 To be honest with you, 129 00:10:00,516 --> 00:10:03,769 I've been trying to repair my relationship with the transgender community. 130 00:10:03,853 --> 00:10:06,731 'Cause I don't want them to think that I don't like them. 131 00:10:07,648 --> 00:10:10,568 You know how I've been repairing it? I wrote a play. 132 00:10:11,485 --> 00:10:13,821 I did. 'Cause I know that gays love plays. 133 00:10:16,741 --> 00:10:19,160 It's a very sad play, but it's moving. 134 00:10:19,785 --> 00:10:22,330 It's about a Black transgender woman 135 00:10:23,372 --> 00:10:25,625 whose pronoun is, sadly, nigga. 136 00:10:32,381 --> 00:10:33,633 It's a tear-jerker. 137 00:10:36,594 --> 00:10:38,554 At the end of the play, she dies of loneliness 138 00:10:38,638 --> 00:10:41,307 'cause white liberals don't know how to speak to her. 139 00:10:42,642 --> 00:10:43,642 Sad. 140 00:10:47,104 --> 00:10:48,189 Speaking of nigga... 141 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:52,234 I've also been working on a book, and this is true. 142 00:10:52,818 --> 00:10:56,405 I'm rewriting the American Classic, Huckleberry Finn, 143 00:10:57,698 --> 00:10:59,241 from Nigger Jim's perspective. 144 00:11:01,243 --> 00:11:03,329 It's called The Adventures of Nigger Jim. 145 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:05,665 That's how it starts. 146 00:11:05,748 --> 00:11:08,376 Huckleberry Finn walks up to him and goes, "You're Nigger Jim." 147 00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:10,920 And he's like, "Yo, I just said 'Jim.'" 148 00:11:13,714 --> 00:11:15,549 "What's your name, little buddy?" 149 00:11:15,633 --> 00:11:17,885 "Huckleberry Finn is my name." 150 00:11:17,968 --> 00:11:21,680 "What? Huckleberry? That's your real name?" 151 00:11:21,764 --> 00:11:22,765 "God-given." 152 00:11:23,724 --> 00:11:25,267 [exhales] "You know what?" 153 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:28,104 "Just call me Nigger Jim, it's fine." 154 00:11:31,899 --> 00:11:35,277 I don't care if you are Black or White or whatever. 155 00:11:35,361 --> 00:11:37,988 If you ever meet a white person named Huckleberry, 156 00:11:39,156 --> 00:11:40,533 he has less money than you. 157 00:11:42,952 --> 00:11:46,372 That is the white trashiest name I've ever heard in my fucking life. 158 00:11:46,455 --> 00:11:49,417 If you have a name like Huckleberry, you're doomed to fail. 159 00:11:51,210 --> 00:11:53,129 If I was in court and my lawyer came up like, 160 00:11:53,212 --> 00:11:57,633 "I am your attorney, Huckleberry Finn." I'd be like, "Uh-oh, I'm going to jail." 161 00:12:00,678 --> 00:12:02,430 God forbid I ever go to jail. 162 00:12:03,222 --> 00:12:06,225 But if I do, I hope it's in California. 163 00:12:07,101 --> 00:12:10,187 Soon as the judge sentence me, I'll be like, "Before you sentence me, 164 00:12:10,271 --> 00:12:11,564 I want the court to know... 165 00:12:12,398 --> 00:12:14,024 I identify as a woman." 166 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:19,447 "Send me... to a woman's jail." 167 00:12:22,199 --> 00:12:24,785 As soon I get in there, you know what I'mma be doing. 168 00:12:24,869 --> 00:12:27,872 "Give me your fruit cocktail, bitch, before I knock your teeth out." 169 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:29,999 "I'm a girl, just like you, bitch." 170 00:12:31,792 --> 00:12:35,504 "Come here and suck this girl dick I got. Don't make me explain myself." 171 00:12:56,692 --> 00:12:59,945 You know, I have a great reputation in show business, 172 00:13:00,029 --> 00:13:04,658 but in comedy, I'm what's known as a lazy comedian. 173 00:13:04,742 --> 00:13:08,704 Which is crazy 'cause I work all the time, but that's not why they call me lazy. 174 00:13:08,787 --> 00:13:11,040 They call me lazy 'cause I do shows sometimes... 175 00:13:11,123 --> 00:13:14,668 Twenty thousand people be in the crowd, and I'll tell a joke, 176 00:13:14,752 --> 00:13:17,087 and they'll all look at me like I'm crazy. 177 00:13:17,171 --> 00:13:20,090 But three or four people will laugh really hard. 178 00:13:21,091 --> 00:13:24,011 And I'll be on stage like, "Yeah, that's good enough." 179 00:13:31,143 --> 00:13:33,562 Well, this next joke is one of those jokes that... 180 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:38,817 You know what I mean? I like to tell it, but it never does good. 181 00:13:39,527 --> 00:13:41,403 But I'm gonna do it. Know what I don't do good? 182 00:13:41,487 --> 00:13:44,198 I'm not good at impressions, but this is an impression. 183 00:13:44,281 --> 00:13:45,991 You ready? Okay. 184 00:13:47,618 --> 00:13:48,786 This is not gonna work. 185 00:13:50,246 --> 00:13:51,747 A'ight, this is my impression. 186 00:13:53,082 --> 00:13:54,875 It's my impression... [exhales] 187 00:13:57,670 --> 00:13:59,463 of the dead people on the Titanic. 188 00:14:04,009 --> 00:14:05,344 You didn't let me finish. 189 00:14:06,845 --> 00:14:09,848 This is my impression of the dead people on the Titanic, 190 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:12,393 as the submersible was approaching their ship. 191 00:14:19,191 --> 00:14:21,360 That's good enough. All right, here it goes. 192 00:14:31,579 --> 00:14:33,247 I... Okay, here it goes. 193 00:14:36,792 --> 00:14:40,462 [trilling voice] Come join us in our watery grave. 194 00:14:46,635 --> 00:14:48,721 [normal voice] Oh, buddy, that's funny to me. 195 00:14:48,804 --> 00:14:52,057 Listen, that is a funny way to die. 196 00:14:53,475 --> 00:14:55,561 Twenty years from now, on my 70th birthday, 197 00:14:55,644 --> 00:14:58,397 I'm gonna take a submersible to see the submersible. 198 00:15:00,441 --> 00:15:02,151 Hopefully by then it should work. 199 00:15:05,237 --> 00:15:07,072 My wife hates that joke. You know... 200 00:15:08,365 --> 00:15:13,287 Do you know there's a strip club in D.C. called Camelot? 201 00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:16,165 [audience whooping] 202 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:19,001 - Is that still open? - [audience] Yes! 203 00:15:19,084 --> 00:15:21,879 I know what I'm doing after the show. I gotta tell you... 204 00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:25,174 the other day, my wife called me creepy. 205 00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:28,761 You know, I frequent strip clubs. It's something I like to do. 206 00:15:28,844 --> 00:15:33,766 And my wife said I was creepy 'cause I go to strip clubs by myself. 207 00:15:33,849 --> 00:15:36,226 Is that creepy? 208 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:41,607 I think that's better than going with the fellas. 209 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:43,776 That's creepy to me. 210 00:15:43,859 --> 00:15:45,694 "Hey, let's all go to the strip club 211 00:15:45,778 --> 00:15:48,530 and get our dicks hard together as a group of friends." 212 00:15:50,866 --> 00:15:53,077 "Drive home in a quiet car and not talk about 213 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,162 any of the things we've seen or done." 214 00:15:56,288 --> 00:15:58,999 No, nigga, I go by myself. 215 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,837 But my wife doesn't understand why I go to the strip club. 216 00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:05,547 It has nothing to do with sex. 217 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:08,842 I need a pinch of sexual energy in the room to relax, 218 00:16:08,926 --> 00:16:10,678 but it's more about being out. 219 00:16:11,428 --> 00:16:12,596 I like the music. 220 00:16:14,974 --> 00:16:16,934 A few naked chicks in there makes me feel good, 221 00:16:17,017 --> 00:16:19,436 but I'm not trying to socialize or meet anybody. 222 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,147 Sometimes I go to a strip club and I bring a book. 223 00:16:23,607 --> 00:16:27,152 I do, and I sit right by the stage 'cause the reading light is better. 224 00:16:31,657 --> 00:16:32,992 [mouthing] 225 00:16:42,292 --> 00:16:44,878 One time I went to a strip club, and this is weird, 226 00:16:44,962 --> 00:16:46,130 I don't know why... 227 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,883 The stripper, for some reason, told me her real name. 228 00:16:51,427 --> 00:16:52,678 I know. So I left. 229 00:16:54,513 --> 00:16:58,017 She's like, "Where are you going?" I was like, "Good night, Deborah." 230 00:17:04,940 --> 00:17:07,693 God bless her, but my wife is mistaken about my life. 231 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,571 She told me once she thinks my job is fun. 232 00:17:11,613 --> 00:17:14,074 My job is a job. 233 00:17:14,867 --> 00:17:15,909 I'm fun. 234 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:20,414 It's too dangerous, man. 235 00:17:21,665 --> 00:17:23,000 You know, all last year... 236 00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:28,213 I was touring with, arguably one of the greatest, 237 00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:31,759 if not the greatest living comedian, Chris Rock. 238 00:17:31,842 --> 00:17:33,844 Me and him toured all year last year. 239 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,683 And right before that tour started, 240 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,731 Chris was involved in what we Blacks might even consider a goddamn 9/11. 241 00:17:49,818 --> 00:17:55,032 Chris got slapped in the face at the Oscars... by Will Smith, 242 00:17:55,115 --> 00:17:57,743 which was one of the craziest things I'd ever seen. 243 00:17:57,826 --> 00:18:01,580 In fact, if you watch it live on television, like I did, 244 00:18:01,663 --> 00:18:03,999 when it happened, I thought it was fake. 245 00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:07,169 I did, and I wasn't sure. 246 00:18:07,252 --> 00:18:09,755 So, I waited 'cause unlike you, I know Chris. 247 00:18:09,838 --> 00:18:11,673 I waited 30, 40 minutes. 248 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:14,384 As long as it'll take him to get to another party. 249 00:18:14,468 --> 00:18:17,387 And I called him on FaceTime and he picked up. 250 00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,265 Soon as he picked up, he said, 251 00:18:20,349 --> 00:18:22,851 "Yous the only nigga I'd answer the phone for." 252 00:18:24,061 --> 00:18:25,521 Apparently, Obama and Oprah, 253 00:18:25,646 --> 00:18:28,649 everybody called this nigga to see if everything's all right. 254 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:35,864 And I thought it was fake. I didn't know. So I asked. 255 00:18:35,948 --> 00:18:38,367 I go, "Well, you know." He said, "What?" 256 00:18:38,450 --> 00:18:40,119 I said, "Did it hurt?" 257 00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:44,248 He said, "Yes, nigga, it hurt." 258 00:18:46,542 --> 00:18:48,377 And then I knew that it was real. 259 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:51,547 And then, and only then, was I offended. 260 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,051 I wasn't just offended he got slapped. That was only half of it. 261 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:57,970 The offensive part was after he slapped him, 262 00:18:58,053 --> 00:19:00,764 Will just sat down and enjoyed the rest of his evening. 263 00:19:00,848 --> 00:19:02,015 It was crazy. He was... 264 00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:04,977 [mouthing] "Thank you." 265 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:09,815 What the fuck is this? 266 00:19:11,942 --> 00:19:16,071 And then all year we was touring, and I couldn't wait to see 267 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,324 what he was going to say in his special about this slap. 268 00:19:19,408 --> 00:19:21,910 I told him all year, but the night he taped his special... 269 00:19:21,994 --> 00:19:23,829 Chris is one of these guys who's crafty. 270 00:19:23,912 --> 00:19:26,123 You never know what he's gonna say until he says it. 271 00:19:26,206 --> 00:19:28,000 I went to see him tape his special. 272 00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:30,085 He taped it up the street, in Baltimore. 273 00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:36,383 Now, you guys are from D.C., so you know about Baltimore? 274 00:19:39,636 --> 00:19:41,430 We all know that through the years, 275 00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:44,850 D.C. has been through some very, very tough times. 276 00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:48,896 Sadly, Baltimore is still in a very tough time. 277 00:19:52,649 --> 00:19:56,278 Not everybody in the world really can understand the depth of Baltimore. 278 00:19:56,361 --> 00:19:58,864 Baltimore is so desperate that... 279 00:20:01,158 --> 00:20:05,954 Tupac and his mother moved from Baltimore to Oakland for a better life. 280 00:20:14,963 --> 00:20:18,008 And Chris Rock went so hard on the paint. 281 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,887 And I can't believe he did this. He shocked a Baltimore crowd. 282 00:20:21,970 --> 00:20:24,640 I didn't know that was possible. I started doing comedy here. 283 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:27,559 Shocked 'em. And you know what he said that got 'em? 284 00:20:27,643 --> 00:20:30,479 He looked at the crowd... I didn't expect him to say this. 285 00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:33,232 He looked the crowds. All Black. Baltimore Black. 286 00:20:38,654 --> 00:20:40,530 Even if you rich and Black in Baltimore, 287 00:20:40,614 --> 00:20:43,200 you know them niggas is traumatized about something. 288 00:20:44,368 --> 00:20:49,081 Chris shocked them. This is what he said. He went to that crowd. He said... 289 00:20:49,164 --> 00:20:55,420 "I refuse to be a victim." The crowd said... [gasps] 290 00:20:57,089 --> 00:21:00,676 And I was backstage looking like, "Nigga watch the tape." 291 00:21:13,563 --> 00:21:15,607 I know it's fucked up, but I tell you the truth, 292 00:21:15,691 --> 00:21:18,986 you know, everything's funny. 293 00:21:19,069 --> 00:21:21,363 Everything's funny 'til it happens to you. 294 00:21:22,781 --> 00:21:25,492 Three months. A mere three months 295 00:21:25,575 --> 00:21:28,328 after that terrible attack that Chris Rock endured... 296 00:21:29,997 --> 00:21:32,207 I was on stage at the Hollywood Bowl. 297 00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:34,334 And a lunatic... 298 00:21:36,336 --> 00:21:38,380 jumped out of the crowd and attacked me. 299 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:41,967 I got to tell you, if it happens to you, you don't know what happened. 300 00:21:42,050 --> 00:21:43,260 It was like slow motion. 301 00:21:43,343 --> 00:21:45,429 I don't know this nigga... I just looked and said, 302 00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:48,140 "Oh, my God. I'm being attacked." 303 00:21:49,349 --> 00:21:53,687 And this motherfucker was ragged. He jumped me like, "Aah!" 304 00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:57,065 I'm old, but I'm fast. 305 00:21:57,149 --> 00:21:59,484 I caught this motherfucker's head with my hand 306 00:21:59,568 --> 00:22:01,695 and pulled his hoodie over his eyes. 307 00:22:01,778 --> 00:22:07,326 I can still feel his head in my hand. 308 00:22:08,535 --> 00:22:09,786 It was spongy. 309 00:22:11,997 --> 00:22:13,623 He had been growing dreadlocks. 310 00:22:14,458 --> 00:22:16,918 Not the beautiful dreads that Rastafarians grow. 311 00:22:17,002 --> 00:22:20,130 These were accidental L.A. homeless dreads. 312 00:22:20,839 --> 00:22:24,343 This shit had leaves and sticks and bottle caps and shit in it. 313 00:22:24,426 --> 00:22:25,594 Some kind of grease. 314 00:22:25,677 --> 00:22:27,512 I was like, "Ugh!" Like this. 315 00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:29,222 And then I fell down. 316 00:22:29,306 --> 00:22:31,475 He knocked me all the way on the ground. 317 00:22:32,184 --> 00:22:34,102 I was like, "Man, this is a bad situation." 318 00:22:34,186 --> 00:22:36,563 "I don't know if I'm going to die or what's gonna happen." 319 00:22:36,646 --> 00:22:39,024 But in that moment of vulnerability, 320 00:22:39,107 --> 00:22:42,611 you know what occurred to me that it never occurred to me before in my life? 321 00:22:42,694 --> 00:22:45,405 In that moment, it occurred to me 322 00:22:46,865 --> 00:22:48,325 that bodyguards... 323 00:22:50,118 --> 00:22:54,790 should not wear dress shoes to work! 324 00:22:54,873 --> 00:22:55,873 Travis! 325 00:22:57,959 --> 00:23:00,378 This nigga, Travis, came out slipping and sliding 326 00:23:00,462 --> 00:23:04,132 in some kind of beautiful loafer and fell flat on the back. 327 00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:07,886 I said, "Oh, my God. Now both of us are down." 328 00:23:07,969 --> 00:23:09,846 "I gotta handle this shit myself." 329 00:23:09,930 --> 00:23:13,391 I popped right back... And the kid that knocked me down, he popped up. 330 00:23:13,475 --> 00:23:18,271 And we looked at each other and realized, same time, I was bigger than him. 331 00:23:19,481 --> 00:23:21,566 And that motherfucker took off running. 332 00:23:21,650 --> 00:23:24,194 I started to chase him, and I said, "Eh, fuck him." 333 00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:26,863 I picked the microphone up. 334 00:23:27,614 --> 00:23:29,741 Said, "I'm gonna finish this show now." 335 00:23:30,867 --> 00:23:31,868 That's right. 336 00:23:38,125 --> 00:23:42,504 For three months before that, I had been making fun of Chris Rock. 337 00:23:43,421 --> 00:23:45,340 And people would ask me all the time. 338 00:23:45,423 --> 00:23:48,176 They say, "Dave, what would you do if you were Chris Rock 339 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:50,470 and Will Smith slapped you in the face?" 340 00:23:50,554 --> 00:23:54,891 And to this day, the answer is the same. "I don't know what I would have done." 341 00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:57,394 I've never been in a situation that extreme. 342 00:23:58,478 --> 00:24:02,274 But I do know now what Will Smith would not have done. 343 00:24:03,024 --> 00:24:06,236 And that is, enjoy the rest of his evening. 344 00:24:10,615 --> 00:24:12,117 Man, listen. 345 00:24:14,035 --> 00:24:16,830 We gave that kid a good wallop. We was whooping his ass. 346 00:24:16,913 --> 00:24:19,833 Not "we." I was on stage trying to think of a joke to tell, 347 00:24:19,916 --> 00:24:23,587 but they was beating this nigga up right behind me. Everybody could see it. 348 00:24:24,629 --> 00:24:25,797 Everybody could see it. 349 00:24:25,881 --> 00:24:28,550 I'm sitting up there trying to think of what to say. 350 00:24:28,633 --> 00:24:32,429 I'm tongue tied. Me, of all people, can't think of anything to say. 351 00:24:32,512 --> 00:24:33,597 Look at my karma. 352 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,724 That moment, of all the people in the world, 353 00:24:35,807 --> 00:24:38,560 Chris Rock walks from backstage. 354 00:24:38,643 --> 00:24:42,564 Walks up to me in front of 20,000 people, 355 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,902 grabs the mic out of my hands and looks at the crowd and goes, 356 00:24:47,944 --> 00:24:49,446 "Was that Will Smith?" 357 00:24:52,991 --> 00:24:56,912 Man, motherfuckers fell out of their chairs, laughing. 358 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:01,458 I was standing there looking stupid. 359 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:03,710 I was fucking furious. 360 00:25:03,793 --> 00:25:07,297 'Cause I'm thinking in my mind, "Nigga, this is my attack." 361 00:25:09,633 --> 00:25:13,178 "You got attacked three months ago. Now you have jokes?" 362 00:25:15,096 --> 00:25:18,308 So, I snatched the mic back from Chris and tried to get one off, 363 00:25:18,391 --> 00:25:20,560 but my shit did not go good at all. 364 00:25:20,644 --> 00:25:23,021 I didn't know... I was like, "It was a trans man." 365 00:25:23,104 --> 00:25:24,689 And the crowd was like... 366 00:25:25,482 --> 00:25:29,569 "Boo. This is L.A., we like trans people. Boo." 367 00:25:31,071 --> 00:25:32,739 I know, I felt so bad. 368 00:25:33,657 --> 00:25:35,242 I felt so bad. 369 00:25:36,534 --> 00:25:38,119 But I know why he did it. 370 00:25:38,703 --> 00:25:42,999 You'd have to be there to understand, but, man, when that guy tackled me, 371 00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,044 it was like a movie or something. 372 00:25:46,127 --> 00:25:47,587 You gotta picture this. 373 00:25:47,671 --> 00:25:49,339 Picture a famous person you like. 374 00:25:49,422 --> 00:25:52,801 Every famous person you could imagine was at that show. 375 00:25:52,884 --> 00:25:56,304 It was, like, the biggest night that Hollywood had ever seen. 376 00:25:57,347 --> 00:26:01,142 And when that guy tackled me, he cleared the bleachers. 377 00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:04,646 I had to watch the tape afterwards to know this happened, 378 00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:06,231 but as soon as he tackled me, 379 00:26:06,314 --> 00:26:10,110 Jamie Foxx was the first motherfucker that jumped out of the crowd. 380 00:26:10,193 --> 00:26:13,863 He was wearing a white cowboy hat, like, he knew this was going to happen. 381 00:26:15,907 --> 00:26:18,368 Never seen this nigga in a cowboy hat before. 382 00:26:19,703 --> 00:26:21,830 And Jamie started chasing that motherfucker 383 00:26:21,913 --> 00:26:23,373 around like Any Given Sunday. 384 00:26:23,456 --> 00:26:27,544 And that kid was fast. His shit was juking and shaking. 385 00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:30,380 And it broke Jamie's ankles, and he just kept running. 386 00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:33,508 Then Jon Stewart, from the Daily Show, ran from backstage 387 00:26:33,591 --> 00:26:36,761 and jumped at this motherfucker like Super Jew. He was, like... 388 00:26:40,890 --> 00:26:44,602 The kid's seen Jon coming, so he jumped back and Jon went flying that way. 389 00:26:44,686 --> 00:26:48,356 This kid was fast. Then he turned around, he sees the emergency exit, 390 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,567 he starts running for the emergency exit. 391 00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:52,610 Just before he got to the door, 392 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:56,364 motherfucking Puff Daddy from Bad Boy Records 393 00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:59,200 jumped in front of the door. That nigga was like, "Eh-eh, eh-eh." 394 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,081 Boy... 395 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,543 Puffy got that motherfucker. 396 00:27:09,711 --> 00:27:11,129 Then every celebrity ran out 397 00:27:11,212 --> 00:27:13,423 'cause every celebrity saw themselves in me, 398 00:27:13,506 --> 00:27:16,009 and they started beating the fuck out of that kid. 399 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,263 And I know Chris was backstage looking like, "Nobody helped me." 400 00:27:25,185 --> 00:27:29,564 ♪ Everybody Hates Chris! ♪ 401 00:27:43,036 --> 00:27:45,997 Look, it was way more intense than what you guys might have read. 402 00:27:46,081 --> 00:27:47,540 I don't know what you read, 403 00:27:49,209 --> 00:27:51,252 but the kid, while we was beating on him, 404 00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:55,215 reached in his waistband, pulled out 22-caliber pistol. 405 00:27:55,298 --> 00:27:56,591 That shit was mayhem. 406 00:27:56,674 --> 00:28:01,346 Everybody started screaming, "Oh, my God, he's got a gun." 407 00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:04,557 And then I got scared. I was in the back, but I was scared. 408 00:28:04,641 --> 00:28:07,477 'Cause I knew that everybody that was with me, was armed. 409 00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:13,566 Yes, if they had shot and killed this kid on stage at the Hollywood Bowl... 410 00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:15,902 like I pay you to do, Travis... 411 00:28:25,036 --> 00:28:26,079 But Travis G-ed up. 412 00:28:26,162 --> 00:28:28,289 Travis wrestled the gun out of the kid's hand. 413 00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:31,918 Then he took it like this and tried to chamber the round and he couldn't. 414 00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:34,462 So he pulled the trigger and it wasn't a gun. 415 00:28:34,546 --> 00:28:36,631 A knife blade popped out of the front. 416 00:28:36,714 --> 00:28:38,716 I guess this kid was going to stab me. 417 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,009 That's some scary shit. 418 00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:42,679 So the next night, even though I didn't have a show, 419 00:28:42,762 --> 00:28:45,765 I said, "I got to get back on stage." I went and did a show. 420 00:28:46,975 --> 00:28:51,187 And someone in the audience screamed out, "Dave, what happened with the attack?" 421 00:28:52,355 --> 00:28:55,066 And I didn't know there was a journalist in the room. 422 00:28:56,401 --> 00:29:01,614 All I said was that this nigga had a knife that identified as a gun. 423 00:29:05,702 --> 00:29:08,496 I got six more weeks of bad press for that joke. 424 00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:11,416 I didn't even do nothing to this nigga. That's not right. 425 00:29:11,499 --> 00:29:12,792 That was not right. 426 00:29:16,296 --> 00:29:18,465 And then the New York Post went to the jail 427 00:29:18,548 --> 00:29:21,426 and interviewed my attacker like he was some kind of hero. 428 00:29:22,761 --> 00:29:24,137 And I read that interview. 429 00:29:24,220 --> 00:29:27,056 It turns out the entire attack was my fault. 430 00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:29,684 Yes, I triggered him. 431 00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:30,852 I didn't mean to. 432 00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:34,230 I had done jokes about the homeless. 433 00:29:34,939 --> 00:29:38,276 It turns out... this young man was homeless. 434 00:29:38,359 --> 00:29:40,820 And, I mean, there's no way I could've known this. 435 00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:41,946 But I will say... 436 00:29:44,449 --> 00:29:47,911 for a homeless guy, this nigga had incredible seats. 437 00:29:57,712 --> 00:30:03,009 Oh, and they said I triggered them because I had done LBGTQ jokes. 438 00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:05,470 And it turns out this fellow was a B. 439 00:30:09,015 --> 00:30:11,351 That was the headline in the article that said, 440 00:30:11,434 --> 00:30:14,813 "Dave Chappelle's alleged attacker is bisexual." 441 00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:17,273 I said, "alleged attacker"? 442 00:30:18,733 --> 00:30:22,320 This motherfucker definitely attacked me. I'll show you the tape. 443 00:30:22,403 --> 00:30:24,489 He's allegedly bisexual. 444 00:30:26,199 --> 00:30:30,495 I'll need to see him suck somebody's dick before I believe the rest of this article. 445 00:30:34,290 --> 00:30:36,376 I read that shit in the paper. I was horrified. 446 00:30:36,459 --> 00:30:39,212 I was like, "Bisexual? I could have been raped." 447 00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:50,515 No. You know what, though? 448 00:30:50,598 --> 00:30:52,475 It's not funny because... 449 00:30:54,435 --> 00:30:56,437 Because after all that madness ensued, 450 00:30:58,565 --> 00:31:00,066 I went to the hotel room. 451 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:04,863 I was by myself, and I opened the door, and my wife was in there alone. 452 00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:07,615 She was sobbing. Like sobbing. 453 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:11,369 I said, "My God, what's wrong with you? Bitch, did you get attacked, too?" 454 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,167 And she's crying. 455 00:31:18,251 --> 00:31:21,004 She said, "Oh, my God, Dave." 456 00:31:21,921 --> 00:31:24,591 She said, "If you had died tonight... 457 00:31:28,177 --> 00:31:30,054 me and the kids would have nothing." 458 00:31:38,187 --> 00:31:39,731 Then I knew it was serious. 459 00:31:39,814 --> 00:31:41,691 So I sat down on the bed next to her. 460 00:31:41,774 --> 00:31:44,027 I reached in my pocket, I pulled some keys out 461 00:31:44,110 --> 00:31:45,653 that she'd never seen before. 462 00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:48,156 She's like, "Oh!" 463 00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:49,949 "What are those keys?" 464 00:31:50,033 --> 00:31:52,410 And I gently placed them in her hands. 465 00:31:53,202 --> 00:31:57,832 I said, "Sweetheart, those are the keys to my safe deposit box." 466 00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:02,670 "God forbid anything ever happen to me." 467 00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:05,590 "But if it does, don't even worry about it." 468 00:32:05,673 --> 00:32:08,801 "You and the kids have everything you need in that box." 469 00:32:08,885 --> 00:32:10,511 "I've already taken care of it." 470 00:32:11,304 --> 00:32:13,473 And she was looking at them keys. 471 00:32:13,556 --> 00:32:17,769 And I could see her mind realize what we were actually talking about. 472 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:21,356 And then she just started crying harder. 473 00:32:21,439 --> 00:32:24,525 And to be honest with you, that made me cry a little bit, too. 474 00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:27,362 And we hugged each other real tight. 475 00:32:34,369 --> 00:32:37,664 Do you know this bitch looked in the box while I'm alive and well? 476 00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:43,294 Who does that? 477 00:32:44,587 --> 00:32:45,797 Oh, my God. 478 00:32:46,589 --> 00:32:47,924 And then she was mad at me. 479 00:32:48,007 --> 00:32:51,386 She said, "Goddamn it, David. I opened that box." I said, "You did?" 480 00:32:52,637 --> 00:32:55,640 She said, "Yes, I did, and there was nothing in there." 481 00:33:00,478 --> 00:33:02,021 I said, "Nothing?" 482 00:33:06,109 --> 00:33:08,528 She said, "Nothing except your stupid joke book." 483 00:33:08,611 --> 00:33:10,947 I was like, "Phew." 484 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,491 I said, "Well, sweetie, look." 485 00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:16,661 "If you tell those jokes exactly how they're written, 486 00:33:16,744 --> 00:33:18,496 you and the kids should be fine." 487 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:21,249 "They're really good jokes." 488 00:33:29,132 --> 00:33:31,300 She's like, "Good jokes? What is this shit?" 489 00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:33,428 "'Come join me in my watery grave.'" 490 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:35,096 No. You gotta roll your throat. 491 00:33:35,179 --> 00:33:39,517 [trilling voice] Come join me in my watery grave. 492 00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:48,901 Oh, boy. 493 00:33:49,861 --> 00:33:50,862 Oh, boy. 494 00:33:52,530 --> 00:33:54,198 I have been married a long time. 495 00:33:55,366 --> 00:33:59,787 I have. You know, I talk a lot of shit about my wife, but I love her very much. 496 00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,832 In fact, you know, you guys wouldn't believe this about me. 497 00:34:02,915 --> 00:34:04,542 I'm a jealous husband. 498 00:34:06,377 --> 00:34:07,377 It's true. 499 00:34:08,004 --> 00:34:11,382 Let me tell you something. One time I thought my wife was cheating on me. 500 00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:12,967 Yes, nigga. Yes. 501 00:34:15,511 --> 00:34:18,389 That was one of the worst days of my fucking life. 502 00:34:18,473 --> 00:34:19,682 I couldn't take it. 503 00:34:19,766 --> 00:34:22,643 And I'm embarrassed about it now, but I can talk about it. 504 00:34:23,311 --> 00:34:24,812 You know what I did? 505 00:34:24,896 --> 00:34:27,440 It's fucked up. But I did do this. I waited. 506 00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:30,401 I waited for her to fall asleep. 507 00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:33,112 And I waited a long time. 508 00:34:34,697 --> 00:34:35,697 She's Asian. 509 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,868 I couldn't tell if she was asleep or not. I was looking at her... 510 00:34:50,129 --> 00:34:52,924 And when I was sure she was asleep, you know what I did? 511 00:34:53,549 --> 00:34:54,926 I stole the iPhone. 512 00:34:55,593 --> 00:34:57,970 Took it downstairs, started trying out passwords 513 00:34:58,054 --> 00:34:59,347 to see if I could open it. 514 00:34:59,430 --> 00:35:00,848 I couldn't figure out the password. 515 00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:04,018 Then I remembered, it's an iPhone. This shit has facial recognition. 516 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,103 I was just like... 517 00:35:09,482 --> 00:35:11,109 And that shit opened right up. 518 00:35:23,121 --> 00:35:26,040 And I saw a text message in there from a fellow named Earl. 519 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,750 I don't know anybody named Earl. 520 00:35:28,626 --> 00:35:30,503 I woke her up out of her sleep. 521 00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:33,464 I said, "Wake the fuck up! Who the fuck is Earl?" 522 00:35:33,548 --> 00:35:36,801 She said, "What are you talking about?" "Don't you play dumb with me, bitch!" 523 00:35:36,884 --> 00:35:39,387 "I done open your phone. Who is Earl?" 524 00:35:39,470 --> 00:35:42,056 She's like, "Oh, my God, David." 525 00:35:43,224 --> 00:35:45,601 "That's gay Earl from the hair salon." 526 00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:47,436 I said, "Word. What am I, a dummy?" 527 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,772 "How am I supposed to know this nigga is gay?" 528 00:35:50,648 --> 00:35:55,069 And she was calm. She said, "Read his texts and look at his pictures." 529 00:35:55,903 --> 00:35:57,530 I started reading them texts. 530 00:35:58,197 --> 00:35:59,282 Hmm. 531 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:03,995 "This fellow sure does spell girl with a 'u' a lot." 532 00:36:07,832 --> 00:36:11,335 And I switched over and looked at his pictures and I couldn't believe it. 533 00:36:11,419 --> 00:36:15,131 This fellow looked gay in still pictures. His mouth was open in every shot. 534 00:36:20,595 --> 00:36:22,722 And then I knew she was telling the truth. 535 00:36:24,015 --> 00:36:25,391 And then I felt, like, dumb. 536 00:36:25,474 --> 00:36:26,934 I said, "I'm sorry." 537 00:36:27,685 --> 00:36:28,895 "I'm sorry. Okay?" 538 00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:30,897 "I'm sorry. Here. Take your phone." 539 00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:34,317 "I'm sorry. Just go back to sleep. I am sorry. I just..." 540 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,027 "I guess I've just been insecure 541 00:36:36,110 --> 00:36:39,030 'cause of all this cheating I've been doing. Good night." 542 00:36:43,409 --> 00:36:46,329 She didn't let me leave. Said, "Since you wanna wake a bitch up..." 543 00:36:46,412 --> 00:36:48,748 Then she pulled my phone from under her pillow. 544 00:36:48,831 --> 00:36:50,583 I said, "What the fuck?" 545 00:36:51,959 --> 00:36:54,212 She said, "Who is this bitch in this picture?" 546 00:36:54,295 --> 00:36:56,047 I said, "How'd you open that phone?" 547 00:36:56,130 --> 00:36:58,299 She said, "Easy. All I had to do was mash my nose 548 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:01,802 and go like this, and it opened right up." I said, "What the fuck?" 549 00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:08,935 She said, "Who is this bitch?" I said, "Give me that." 550 00:37:10,937 --> 00:37:14,065 "Girl, relax. That ain't no bitch. This is my friend." 551 00:37:14,148 --> 00:37:15,274 "Deborah." 552 00:37:20,821 --> 00:37:23,699 I'm gonna close the night with a long story. Do you mind? 553 00:37:29,622 --> 00:37:32,500 All right. It's a long one. So pretend that I've finished. 554 00:37:32,583 --> 00:37:34,877 'Cause I gotta go get a cigarette. All right? 555 00:37:34,961 --> 00:37:37,588 I'm not done, but just act like it. 556 00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:39,674 I'd prefer standing ovations since we're acting. 557 00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:41,384 Thank you very much. Good night. 558 00:38:11,038 --> 00:38:13,624 Thanks for not giving me a standing O, motherfuckers. 559 00:38:13,708 --> 00:38:14,834 This is the worst. 560 00:38:16,043 --> 00:38:18,796 It's all right. I just wanted to smoke. 561 00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:22,258 You like that, don't you? 562 00:38:28,806 --> 00:38:30,266 Okay. 563 00:38:30,349 --> 00:38:34,103 Before I did Killin' Them Softly, when I was 22, 564 00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:38,816 HBO gave me the biggest opportunity of my life at that time. 565 00:38:38,899 --> 00:38:40,526 They gave me a half-hour special, 566 00:38:40,609 --> 00:38:43,237 but this shit was not like a special, you know what I mean? 567 00:38:43,321 --> 00:38:44,655 It was like, generic. 568 00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:47,658 It didn't even have a title. It just says "Dave Chappelle." 569 00:38:48,826 --> 00:38:54,540 And I shot it in San Francisco, at a place called Broadway Studios, 570 00:38:54,623 --> 00:38:57,251 which is on the second floor of a building. 571 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:00,838 And beneath Broadway Studios is a nightclub. 572 00:39:02,089 --> 00:39:04,842 And the special was only supposed to be 30 minutes. 573 00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:09,263 And I got ready. I practiced. I did all the shit I was supposed to do. 574 00:39:10,056 --> 00:39:13,934 And the night that I taped, 20 minutes into my 30-minute set, 575 00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:17,021 I'll never forget this music. 576 00:39:17,688 --> 00:39:21,275 Music started blasting from the nightclub underneath. 577 00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:26,364 You could hear it real loud and it fucked my whole show up, and I was devastated. 578 00:39:27,281 --> 00:39:28,574 I was a young man. 579 00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:32,119 I really believed in what I was doing. 580 00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:34,663 And I thought that my dream had been killed. 581 00:39:35,414 --> 00:39:37,792 So when I got off stage, I ran down the steps 582 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:42,129 to the alley behind Broadway Studios, where the control trucks are parked, 583 00:39:42,213 --> 00:39:45,007 and I kicked that motherfucking door open. 584 00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:47,510 And I started yelling at all the producers. 585 00:39:47,593 --> 00:39:50,930 I was nobody in show business. Just a guy that believed in myself. 586 00:39:51,013 --> 00:39:53,474 I said, "Man, you fucked everything up." 587 00:39:53,557 --> 00:39:56,185 "That fucking music. What the fuck were you thinking?" 588 00:39:56,268 --> 00:39:58,479 And there was a guy who was a big-time producer. 589 00:39:58,562 --> 00:39:59,814 I ain't saying no names. 590 00:39:59,897 --> 00:40:03,818 He stood up and he said, "Hey, kid, sit the fuck down." 591 00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:06,946 He said, "We didn't ruin anything." 592 00:40:07,029 --> 00:40:09,198 He said, "We made a deal with that nightclub 593 00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:12,118 to not play music, and they didn't honor the deal." 594 00:40:12,201 --> 00:40:15,454 And I said, "Who didn't honor the deal?" 595 00:40:15,538 --> 00:40:17,164 And he pointed to a guy. 596 00:40:17,873 --> 00:40:20,376 I'll never forget it. It was an old white man 597 00:40:20,459 --> 00:40:22,503 sitting in a Ford Taurus by himself. 598 00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:26,090 And he said, "That guy right there." 599 00:40:26,173 --> 00:40:28,300 I didn't waste no time or ask no questions. 600 00:40:28,384 --> 00:40:31,011 I went to that Ford Taurus and I beat on that window, 601 00:40:31,095 --> 00:40:33,889 I said, "Open the door, motherfucker. I want to talk to you." 602 00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:38,269 That old man looked at me for one second and wisely drove the fuck off. 603 00:40:40,771 --> 00:40:44,024 And left me in the alley cussing at anybody who would listen. 604 00:40:45,568 --> 00:40:49,363 And two minutes later, literally 120 seconds later, 605 00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,532 it couldn't have been any more than that, 606 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:54,952 the doors of the kitchen in the alley of that nightclub 607 00:40:55,035 --> 00:40:57,663 underneath Broadway Studios swung open. 608 00:40:57,746 --> 00:41:01,792 And that old man was standing there, that same old man with reinforcements. 609 00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:04,753 He had two big goons with him, and he looked at me... 610 00:41:04,837 --> 00:41:06,338 He was calm as a cucumber. 611 00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:08,132 He said, "You, come here." 612 00:41:09,091 --> 00:41:10,468 "I want to talk to you." 613 00:41:11,469 --> 00:41:13,888 I didn't know anything about streets at this age. 614 00:41:14,555 --> 00:41:18,517 But I found out later in my life that these men were Russian mobsters. 615 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:21,896 I don't know what you guys know about the Russian mob, 616 00:41:21,979 --> 00:41:25,065 but these are the niggas that killed Denzel in Training Day. 617 00:41:30,779 --> 00:41:32,990 All the producers knew what I was up against. 618 00:41:33,073 --> 00:41:35,826 They said, "Dave, do not go in there." 619 00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:37,161 And I said, "Fuck y'all." 620 00:41:37,244 --> 00:41:40,956 And I walked right into that kitchen and they closed the doors behind me, 621 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:43,751 and it got the dark as fuck in there, and I knew. 622 00:41:43,834 --> 00:41:47,755 I'm not dumb. I knew I was in a bad situation. 623 00:41:47,838 --> 00:41:49,215 But you have to understand, 624 00:41:49,298 --> 00:41:52,593 I believed in what I was doing, and I didn't give a fuck. 625 00:41:52,676 --> 00:41:55,012 Just kept cussing at these motherfuckers. 626 00:41:55,095 --> 00:41:57,097 Tell them how they ruined my life. 627 00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:01,352 And that old man couldn't believe that I was talking all of this shit. 628 00:42:02,686 --> 00:42:05,314 And as soon as I took a breath, he stopped me gently. 629 00:42:05,397 --> 00:42:07,233 He said, "Hey, kid, listen." 630 00:42:08,442 --> 00:42:10,110 "Your friends lied to you." 631 00:42:11,278 --> 00:42:12,863 He said. "We made a deal." 632 00:42:13,572 --> 00:42:16,283 "But your friends never paid me." 633 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:21,121 And when he said that, I realized I was locked in a kitchen. 634 00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:29,964 I realized he was telling the truth, which would make me wrong. 635 00:42:30,047 --> 00:42:34,260 And the moment, the very moment that I realized I was wrong, 636 00:42:34,343 --> 00:42:37,096 for the first time, I was afraid. 637 00:42:38,055 --> 00:42:42,893 You see, it's a funny thing if you believe you're absolutely right. 638 00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:47,481 You can get drunk off the feeling of how right you are. 639 00:42:47,565 --> 00:42:49,316 That's why gay people are so mean. 640 00:43:02,621 --> 00:43:03,789 But I didn't buckle. 641 00:43:03,872 --> 00:43:06,083 You guys would've been very proud of me. 642 00:43:06,166 --> 00:43:07,960 I was scared, but I didn't buckle. 643 00:43:08,043 --> 00:43:11,130 I said, "Well, then, sir, I owe you an apology." 644 00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,259 "But I believe that no matter what reason that music was playing, 645 00:43:15,342 --> 00:43:16,719 it ruined my life." 646 00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:21,640 And that old man looked at me with sympathy in his eyes. 647 00:43:22,433 --> 00:43:26,770 And he walked over to me and he gently placed his hand on my cheek. 648 00:43:26,854 --> 00:43:31,191 Which I gotta tell you, it is a very emasculating thing to do. 649 00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:35,738 I was standing there looking at this nigga's hand on my cheek, like... 650 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:46,123 And he said, "You are a real man." 651 00:43:46,915 --> 00:43:48,584 And he tapped me on my cheek. 652 00:43:49,627 --> 00:43:50,794 Real soft. 653 00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:55,049 And just like that, the doors open back up. 654 00:43:55,758 --> 00:43:58,218 The light from the alley flooded into the kitchen, 655 00:43:58,302 --> 00:44:00,304 and I just walked out alive. 656 00:44:00,387 --> 00:44:03,515 I lived to fight... another day. 657 00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:05,976 And in that moment, 658 00:44:06,060 --> 00:44:08,729 I learned one of the most valuable lessons of my life, 659 00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:10,814 and I have to share it with you. 660 00:44:10,898 --> 00:44:12,232 And that lesson is this. 661 00:44:13,067 --> 00:44:17,529 In your life, at any given moment, 662 00:44:17,613 --> 00:44:22,076 the strongest dream in that moment wins that moment. 663 00:44:22,159 --> 00:44:26,330 I am a very powerful dreamer. 664 00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:29,208 Yeah, I'm not lying. 665 00:44:33,837 --> 00:44:37,299 I dreamed tonight, this very night, 666 00:44:37,383 --> 00:44:39,510 as a 14-year-old boy, 667 00:44:39,593 --> 00:44:43,180 and I am living it as a 50-year-old man. 668 00:44:43,263 --> 00:44:46,558 My dreams are very strong. 669 00:44:48,727 --> 00:44:51,063 Today, I walked all around Washington. 670 00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:53,273 I used to be poor in this city, 671 00:44:53,357 --> 00:44:56,860 and all day, people just said, "Hey, Dave. Hey, Dave." 672 00:44:56,944 --> 00:45:01,073 Like they knew me personally, and I felt like I knew them. 673 00:45:01,156 --> 00:45:05,285 And I say to myself, "My God, Dave, what a powerful dream." 674 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,830 But then, sometimes... 675 00:45:10,666 --> 00:45:14,420 Sometimes... I feel regular. 676 00:45:15,879 --> 00:45:17,798 I just feel like myself. 677 00:45:17,881 --> 00:45:21,552 Maybe I'll smoke some weed and be at some nightclub and feel shy. 678 00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:26,723 But I'll look across the nightclub, see some guy that no one's ever heard of. 679 00:45:26,807 --> 00:45:29,726 But this nigga worked all week and got bottle service, 680 00:45:29,810 --> 00:45:34,106 and this bitch is bringing Moët and sparklers to 'em. 681 00:45:35,065 --> 00:45:36,942 I picture, in my mind, he's Persian. 682 00:45:37,025 --> 00:45:39,862 He's doing some kind of weird Persian dance. 683 00:45:39,945 --> 00:45:42,656 He got six bitches at his table because he got so much liquor. 684 00:45:42,739 --> 00:45:46,160 And they all just saying, "Go Cena! Go Cena!" 685 00:45:46,243 --> 00:45:49,204 And I was looking across the room like, "Oh, my God." 686 00:45:49,913 --> 00:45:51,748 "I'm in that guy's dream." 687 00:45:52,708 --> 00:45:56,211 I can hear him telling his friends. "Hey, how was the club last night?" 688 00:45:56,295 --> 00:45:58,630 "That shit was fantastic. I had bottle service." 689 00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:02,426 "I seen Dave Chappelle across the club, looking at me like, 'Who is that?'" 690 00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:08,265 And that's the trick to life. 691 00:46:08,932 --> 00:46:14,271 You have to be wise enough to know when you were living in your dream. 692 00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:19,067 And you have to be humble enough to accept when you're in someone else's. 693 00:46:21,361 --> 00:46:22,446 That's why... 694 00:46:23,780 --> 00:46:28,327 That's why I don't judge between Will Smith, and Chris Rock. 695 00:46:29,077 --> 00:46:31,371 Because you guys look at them as big ideas, 696 00:46:31,455 --> 00:46:34,875 but I look at them as fellow dreamers. 697 00:46:35,626 --> 00:46:40,297 I can't judge between them because I see myself in both of them. 698 00:46:40,797 --> 00:46:42,549 I am Will Smith. 699 00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:45,469 I am the man that cannot take it anymore 700 00:46:45,552 --> 00:46:48,055 and will slap the shit out of the next person 701 00:46:48,138 --> 00:46:51,433 that says a cross word to me or somebody that I love. 702 00:46:52,226 --> 00:46:53,519 And I am Chris Rock. 703 00:46:54,144 --> 00:46:57,940 I am the man that can get slapped in front of the whole world 704 00:46:58,649 --> 00:47:02,569 and keep my composure so I don't fuck anything up. 705 00:47:03,904 --> 00:47:09,201 That... is what... men do. 706 00:47:10,494 --> 00:47:12,579 Men make boundaries. 707 00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:14,665 Men enforce boundaries. 708 00:47:14,748 --> 00:47:17,292 And men tests boundaries. 709 00:47:17,376 --> 00:47:20,546 And no man test more boundaries 710 00:47:20,629 --> 00:47:21,755 than a trans man. 711 00:47:35,310 --> 00:47:39,106 When I see a fellow dreamer, I give them my utmost respect, 712 00:47:39,189 --> 00:47:41,733 even if I don't understand what their dream is. 713 00:47:41,817 --> 00:47:44,111 I know a dreamer when I see one. 714 00:47:44,194 --> 00:47:47,447 And I've met many powerful dreamers in my life. 715 00:47:47,531 --> 00:47:48,949 None more powerful 716 00:47:50,742 --> 00:47:53,537 than a man who calls himself... 717 00:47:55,414 --> 00:47:56,707 Lil Nas X. 718 00:48:00,961 --> 00:48:04,631 I met this nigga at a party. I had no idea who he was. 719 00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:08,302 But the minute he walked in that party, I knew I was in his dream. 720 00:48:10,929 --> 00:48:13,098 Everybody in the party was another dreamer. 721 00:48:13,181 --> 00:48:14,182 Everyone was famous. 722 00:48:14,266 --> 00:48:15,767 But when that nigga walked in, 723 00:48:15,851 --> 00:48:18,186 he was dressed like C-3PO. He was shining. 724 00:48:22,733 --> 00:48:26,153 And everyone was like, "Oh, my God, there he is. That's Lil Nas X!" 725 00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:28,113 I didn't know who he was. For some reason, 726 00:48:28,196 --> 00:48:30,907 out of all of them dreamers, he walked right up to me. 727 00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:37,456 And he said, "I tried to get you in my video." 728 00:48:37,539 --> 00:48:40,751 I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. I said, "What?" 729 00:48:41,877 --> 00:48:43,253 "What video?" 730 00:48:43,337 --> 00:48:45,130 And he was just looking at me like... 731 00:48:46,423 --> 00:48:48,759 "You know what video," and walked away. 732 00:48:51,678 --> 00:48:54,890 And I watched him walk away. I said, "Man." I said... 733 00:48:55,724 --> 00:48:58,226 "This nigga's having a very powerful dream." 734 00:49:03,357 --> 00:49:04,941 You know what it reminded me of? 735 00:49:05,025 --> 00:49:07,027 It remind me of when we was in grade school. 736 00:49:07,110 --> 00:49:10,155 Remember, the teacher would ask everybody what they want to be. 737 00:49:10,238 --> 00:49:13,867 "Timmy. Timmy, what do you want to be when you grow up?" 738 00:49:14,618 --> 00:49:16,036 Timmy acted like he had an idea. 739 00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:18,872 He'd stand up and he'd say, "I want to be a fireman." 740 00:49:18,955 --> 00:49:22,918 And the teacher would say, "Timmy, that is a beautiful dream." 741 00:49:23,001 --> 00:49:24,795 But Timmy didn't mean it. 742 00:49:24,878 --> 00:49:26,713 Timmy said he wanted to be a fireman 743 00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,341 because deep down, Timmy is attracted to fire. 744 00:49:32,844 --> 00:49:36,640 And by the time he's 14 years old, this nigga is a full-blown pyromaniac, 745 00:49:36,723 --> 00:49:39,643 playing with kerosene and matches like a goddamn expert. 746 00:49:39,726 --> 00:49:43,397 Then one night he goes downtown with his buddies fucking around with fire, 747 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:44,898 burns a warehouse down. 748 00:49:44,981 --> 00:49:47,150 He doesn't know it, but there's 13 migrant workers 749 00:49:47,234 --> 00:49:48,902 from El Salvador in that motherfucker. 750 00:49:48,985 --> 00:49:51,321 They get trapped and then they die in the fire. 751 00:49:51,405 --> 00:49:52,489 Isn't that a tragedy? 752 00:49:53,907 --> 00:49:55,200 Well, it was an accident. 753 00:49:56,576 --> 00:49:59,788 He's only 14 years old. But he's Black. 754 00:49:59,871 --> 00:50:02,082 So they try him as an adult. 755 00:50:02,165 --> 00:50:04,793 Timmy ends up spending the rest of his life in jail. 756 00:50:04,876 --> 00:50:06,920 Dream deferred. [mimics buzzer sound] 757 00:50:14,678 --> 00:50:16,096 "What about you, Billy?" 758 00:50:16,179 --> 00:50:19,099 "Billy? Billy, What do you want to be when you grow up?" 759 00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:20,934 Billy stands up and he says, 760 00:50:21,017 --> 00:50:25,105 "I want to be president of the United States." 761 00:50:25,188 --> 00:50:27,524 And the teacher says, "Oh, my God, Billy." 762 00:50:27,607 --> 00:50:31,236 "Billy, that is a wonderful dream." 763 00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:33,989 And Billy means that shit. 764 00:50:34,614 --> 00:50:36,408 Billy does everything right. 765 00:50:36,491 --> 00:50:39,870 That motherfucker gets his grades up, he joins student government. 766 00:50:39,953 --> 00:50:41,788 He even does extracurricular activities 767 00:50:41,872 --> 00:50:44,291 like show choir just to make his resume look good. 768 00:50:44,374 --> 00:50:46,293 He's on track to be president. 769 00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:48,587 But junior year, he wipes. 770 00:50:48,670 --> 00:50:51,047 When he's 16, he gets his girlfriend pregnant, 771 00:50:51,923 --> 00:50:54,551 and has to drop out of high school to make ends meet. 772 00:50:55,594 --> 00:50:58,764 But lucky for him, the local Walmart's hiring. 773 00:51:00,807 --> 00:51:02,350 By the time he's 20 years old, 774 00:51:02,434 --> 00:51:05,020 this motherfucker makes assistant manager at Walmart. 775 00:51:05,103 --> 00:51:06,980 He's the youngest one in the district. 776 00:51:07,063 --> 00:51:10,192 He says, "Oh, my God, if I can keep this up for four more years, 777 00:51:10,275 --> 00:51:11,985 I could be a manager." 778 00:51:12,068 --> 00:51:14,738 "If I can keep this up for six more years after that, 779 00:51:14,821 --> 00:51:16,698 I could even be a regional manager 780 00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:20,076 and have as many as three Walmarts under my control." 781 00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:24,790 And he's a big-picture guy. He sees where this path is going. 782 00:51:25,499 --> 00:51:26,708 So he kills himself. 783 00:51:31,797 --> 00:51:33,298 [mimics buzzer sound] 784 00:51:40,889 --> 00:51:42,265 "What about you?" 785 00:51:42,849 --> 00:51:44,976 "What do you want to be when you grow up?" 786 00:51:45,894 --> 00:51:47,437 "I don't wanna say." 787 00:51:48,271 --> 00:51:50,899 "Because I don't want the other kids to laugh at me." 788 00:51:51,775 --> 00:51:53,610 "Who cares if they laugh?" 789 00:51:53,693 --> 00:51:55,320 "Your dream is yours." 790 00:51:56,530 --> 00:51:58,782 "Own your dreams so they can come true." 791 00:51:58,865 --> 00:52:01,034 "Say it loud and proud." 792 00:52:01,117 --> 00:52:03,537 "What do you want to be when you grow up, 793 00:52:03,620 --> 00:52:04,996 Lil Nas X?" 794 00:52:07,999 --> 00:52:10,460 That nigga stood up in front of the whole class. 795 00:52:11,795 --> 00:52:14,297 "I want to be the gayest nigga that ever lived." 796 00:52:15,882 --> 00:52:17,217 "I want to do a music video, 797 00:52:17,300 --> 00:52:20,387 slide down a stripper pole, all the way to the depths of hell, 798 00:52:20,470 --> 00:52:23,640 and suck the devil's dick at ten o'clock on BET 799 00:52:23,723 --> 00:52:26,017 while all the kids are awake and can see me." 800 00:52:29,813 --> 00:52:32,482 Shockingly, that was the only dream that worked out. 801 00:52:43,451 --> 00:52:45,203 That's why I'm here. 802 00:52:45,829 --> 00:52:47,163 Tonight. 803 00:52:47,247 --> 00:52:50,709 In the city where I built the dreams that I live. 804 00:52:50,792 --> 00:52:54,254 'Cause I wanted to tell you all that they came true. 805 00:52:54,337 --> 00:52:59,050 And I wanted to thank you all for making the man that I am today. 806 00:53:04,139 --> 00:53:07,392 Yes, I am living a very powerful dream. 807 00:53:07,475 --> 00:53:11,730 Every time I come to this city and I stand in front of you, 808 00:53:11,813 --> 00:53:16,151 I realize that, "My God, man, this is not my dream at all." 809 00:53:16,234 --> 00:53:20,488 "It's yours, and I am honored to be in it." 810 00:53:20,572 --> 00:53:23,366 Thank you very much, Washington D.C. 811 00:53:23,450 --> 00:53:25,285 I'll see you next time. 812 00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:36,087 ♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 813 00:53:36,171 --> 00:53:39,049 ♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 814 00:53:39,132 --> 00:53:41,885 ♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 815 00:53:41,968 --> 00:53:44,804 ♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 816 00:53:44,888 --> 00:53:47,933 ♪ I believe every lie that I ever told ♪ 817 00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:50,769 ♪ Paid for every heart that I ever stole ♪ 818 00:53:50,852 --> 00:53:53,229 {\an8}♪ I played my cards and I didn't fold ♪ 819 00:53:53,313 --> 00:53:56,232 ♪ Well, it ain't that hard If you got soul ♪ 820 00:53:56,316 --> 00:53:58,360 ♪ This is my world ♪ 821 00:53:58,443 --> 00:54:01,196 ♪ Somewhere I heard that life is a test ♪ 822 00:54:01,279 --> 00:54:03,990 ♪ I been through the worst But I still give my best ♪ 823 00:54:04,074 --> 00:54:06,826 ♪ God made my mold Different from the rest ♪ 824 00:54:06,910 --> 00:54:10,288 {\an8}♪ Then he broke that mold So I know I'm blessed ♪ 825 00:54:10,372 --> 00:54:12,457 {\an8}♪ This is my world ♪ 826 00:54:12,540 --> 00:54:15,251 {\an8}♪ Stand up now and face the sun ♪ 827 00:54:15,335 --> 00:54:17,879 {\an8}♪ Won't hide my tail or turn and run ♪ 828 00:54:17,963 --> 00:54:20,715 {\an8}♪ It's time to do what must be done ♪ 829 00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:23,635 {\an8}♪ Be a king when kingdom comes ♪ 830 00:54:23,718 --> 00:54:26,304 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 831 00:54:26,388 --> 00:54:29,265 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 832 00:54:29,349 --> 00:54:32,060 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 833 00:54:32,143 --> 00:54:35,146 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 834 00:54:35,230 --> 00:54:37,565 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 835 00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:40,360 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 836 00:54:40,443 --> 00:54:43,238 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 837 00:54:43,321 --> 00:54:45,824 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 838 00:54:45,907 --> 00:54:48,493 {\an8}♪ Yes I am, yes I am, yes I am ♪ 839 00:54:48,576 --> 00:54:51,579 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 840 00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:54,332 {\an8}♪ I got all the answers To your questions ♪ 841 00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:57,127 {\an8}♪ I'll be the teacher You can be the lesson ♪ 842 00:54:57,210 --> 00:54:59,921 {\an8}♪ I'll be the preacher You be the confession ♪ 843 00:55:00,005 --> 00:55:03,341 {\an8}♪ I'll be the quick relief To all your stressin' ♪ 844 00:55:03,425 --> 00:55:05,468 {\an8}♪ This is my world ♪ 845 00:55:05,552 --> 00:55:08,263 {\an8}♪ It's a thin line between love and hate ♪ 846 00:55:08,346 --> 00:55:11,224 {\an8}♪ Is you really real Or is you really fake? ♪ 847 00:55:11,307 --> 00:55:13,810 {\an8}♪ I'm a soldier standing on my feet ♪ 848 00:55:13,893 --> 00:55:17,439 {\an8}♪ No surrender and I won't retreat ♪ 849 00:55:17,522 --> 00:55:19,399 {\an8}♪ This is my world ♪ 850 00:55:19,482 --> 00:55:22,193 {\an8}♪ Stand up now and face the sun ♪ 851 00:55:22,277 --> 00:55:25,030 {\an8}♪ Won't hide my tail Or turn and run ♪ 852 00:55:25,113 --> 00:55:27,741 {\an8}♪ It's time to do what must be done ♪ 853 00:55:27,824 --> 00:55:33,371 {\an8}♪ And be a king when kingdom comes ♪ 854 00:55:33,455 --> 00:55:36,124 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 855 00:55:36,207 --> 00:55:38,960 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 856 00:55:39,044 --> 00:55:41,755 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 857 00:55:41,838 --> 00:55:44,507 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 858 00:55:44,591 --> 00:55:47,343 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 859 00:55:47,427 --> 00:55:50,096 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 860 00:55:50,180 --> 00:55:52,932 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 861 00:55:53,016 --> 00:55:55,727 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 862 00:55:55,810 --> 00:55:58,521 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 863 00:55:58,605 --> 00:56:01,357 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 864 00:56:01,441 --> 00:56:04,069 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 865 00:56:04,152 --> 00:56:06,738 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 866 00:56:06,821 --> 00:56:09,616 {\an8}♪ Well, you can tell everybody ♪ 867 00:56:09,699 --> 00:56:12,452 {\an8}♪ Yeah, you can tell everybody ♪ 868 00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:15,205 {\an8}♪ Go ahead and tell everybody ♪ 869 00:56:15,288 --> 00:56:18,208 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 870 00:56:18,291 --> 00:56:21,044 {\an8}♪ Yes I am, yes I am, yes I am ♪ 871 00:56:21,127 --> 00:56:25,048 {\an8}♪ I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man ♪ 872 00:56:34,724 --> 00:56:40,480 [announcer] This is protected by the red, the black and the green 873 00:56:40,563 --> 00:56:43,733 at the crossroad with a key.