Dave Chappell
I had the pleasure of watching the “Inside the Actor’s Studio” episode where James Lipton interviewed Dave Chappell, and (quick impersonation of Lipton in an overly-dramatic drawn out prose) “let me tell you, it was astounding.”
The Dave Chappell episode of “Inside the Actors Studio” may be one of the greatest television shows I have ever seen. Dave smoked a total of 893 cigarettes during the show. You could tell that he was feeling the aftershock of his trip to Africa. The man did not look comfortable to say the least.
It was so surreal that Dave couldn’t even comprehend it. He completely lost it when James Lipton started discussing his character, Sir Smoke-A-Lot. This show has interviewed the greatest actors on the planet, and James Lipton was talking about the Chappell Show and showing clips of the Chappell’s character who was the blind black man who was a member of the KKK. His name slips my mind right now, but if you’ve ever seen the show, you’ve got to laughing out loud just at the thought of it.
Eventually, Lipton made Chappell dance, as he does every actor he interviews. But in a twist that would only fit with this episode, Dave Chappell broke it down ol’ school and passed it back to Lipton out of the Robot. Of course, James Lipton hit us up with some ballet. I mean, it was like the greatest Will Ferrell skit on Saturday Night Live EVER, but it was for real.
If you EVER have the chance to see this episode, you must do it immediately. I haven’t enjoyed television this much since Geraldo took a chair to the nose while I was at my buddy Mikey Guttierez’s house, and his old Mexican grandmother (who taped every episode for kicks) kept rewinding the chair bouncing off of Geraldo’s face and shouting/laughing hysterically at the television set.
Now that my friends is C O M E D Y.
