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Friday, June 12, 2020

WITH 8:46, CHAPPELLE BRINGS THE FIRE

Dave Chappelle's brief but incendiary set in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the wave of protests it has set off is essential American art of the moment.

This appearance before a socially distanced and largely masked audience in Yellow Springs, Ohio—recorded for Netflix but offered for free on YouTube—is also historic as a live performance of the pandemic era.

Chappelle is at his most passionate and heartbroken in addressing this nightmare of violence and racism; still, this being Dave, he manages to find ways to make us laugh (and to offend practically everyone). See for yourself.

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