Two nights after the Hollywood Bowl incident, the comic performed the Comedy Retailer in Los Angeles, with stars like Kim Kardashian and Sean "Diddy" Combs within the crowd.
Two nights after a person attacked him onstage on the Hollywood Bowl, Dave Chappelle addressed the incident at a secret comedy present in Los Angeles on Thursday.
The comic carried out on the Comedy Retailer within the membership’s 70-seat Stomach Room. Though Chappelle’s look was a last-minute addition, rumors started to flow into Thursday evening previous to the present, and keen followers paid $160 for a ticket to see the “secret present” with an unnamed star comic.
Amongst the intimate crowd was a bunch of celebrities, together with Kim Kardashian, Sean “Diddy” Combs, rapper Yasiin Bey and comic Jeff Ross, who was a part of the lineup for Chappelle’s Tuesday evening Hollywood Bowl present. Michelle Wolf, who was additionally on the Tuesday evening present, opened for Chappelle. Ten minutes into Chappelle’s set, Chris Rock, who was at Tuesday evening’s present and, after all, slapped by Will Smith onstage on the 2022 Oscars, joined him onstage.
Wearing a saggy tank high and smoking his favourite cigarettes, American Spirits, Chappelle took the stage to a hero’s welcome from the small crowd.
Chappelle went instantly into the subject of the Tuesday-night assault on the Hollywood Bowl, saying he couldn’t see the person’s face however that he bought a grip of his hair.
Chappelle described being embraced instantly after the incident by his son, who informed him, “Dad, I really like you.” Chappelle stated it was the unusual sight of Jamie Foxx carrying, for some motive, “a sheriff’s hat” that calmed him down.
Chappelle shouted out the many individuals who reached out after the incident: “Lots of people love me, it seems,” he stated of a gaggle that included Louis C.Okay.
It was at that time that Rock joined Chappelle onstage, drawing an enormous cheer from the group.
Rock took a stool by Chappelle and remained there for the remainder of the efficiency. It was two of the largest comedians joking in regards to the headline-making assaults they’d not too long ago skilled — all unfolding in a 70-seat annex of the Comedy Retailer. As such, the second felt historic.
“A minimum of you bought smacked by somebody of reputation!” Chappelle joked to Rock. “I bought smacked by a homeless man with leaves in his hair.”
Rock laughed and responded, “I bought smacked by the softest n—- that ever rapped.”
Later, Chappelle described convincing the Los Angeles police to permit him to enter the room the place his alleged assailant, 23-year-old Isaiah Lee, was being held. “I wanted to speak to him,” Chappelle stated. He requested Lee what presumably may have prompted his assault, to which Lee — who Chappelle stated appeared to him to be mentally in poor health — supplied a narrative about his grandmother from Brooklyn, who had been compelled out of her neighborhood by gentrification. The assault was meant to attract consideration to her plight, Chappelle recounted.
Finally, the matters moved past the dual assaults to different issues within the information — the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard libel trial and the looming risk to Roe v. Wade.
However the digressions had been temporary. It was Chappelle’s assault that was the primary subject of debate that night — and the town the place it occurred.
“I'm within the [place] the place you sat within the automobile whereas Biggie Smalls died,” Chappelle stated towards the top of his set, wanting over to Combs. “I hate this metropolis.” With that, he grabbed his pack of cigarettes and left the stage.