Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday we didn’t see coming: Reliably preppy retailer Banana Republic inspired some laughs worthy of a Chappelle’s Show episode Thursday with a hilarious in-store styling choice in its BR Men’s collection. We’re not sure if it was intentional (we’re guessing not), but the pairing of a navy blue…
There was no shortage of melanin-deficient people wringing their pasty hands over comedian Michelle Wolf’s speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend. Wolf minced no words when addressing the Trump administration’s cadre of complicit white women; she also skewered the press, pointing out the ways…
You read that headline correctly. According to the Associated Press, a white man named Christian Englander, who threw a banana peel at Dave Chappelle during a 2015 performance in Santa Fe, N.M., is suing the comedian and another man believed to be his bodyguard.
Listen, I’ve never done cocaine in my life. I’ve never really felt compelled to do so, either. While I can’t pretend like those “This is your brain; this is your brain on drugs” commercials entirely deterred me from a life of occasional recreational drug use, cocaine—for me—has always just seemed like a bridge too…
I’m not a fan of Mo’Nique and never have been. I don’t have any disdain for her; she’s just not my brand of bourbon, if you catch my drift. If I got free tickets to see a show in person, I may go depending on what else I had going on that particular evening. I have enjoyed some of her work—I liked her in Almost…
Voices seem to be split on Mo’nique and her ask for us to quit Netflix because of what she calls its “gender and color bias.” She made the claim after the company offered her a paltry $500,000 for a comedy special, even though she’s an Oscar-winning actress with more than 18 years in the comedy game, while giving…
Yup, Dave Chappelle went there. In his new Netflix comedy special, The Bird Revelation, Chappelle touches on sexual harassment in Hollywood and in comedy, mining the accusations against fellow comedian Louis C.K., who was accused of masturbating in front of female colleagues, for joke fodder. The special debuted on…
I don’t have to tell you how supremely tough 2017 was to deal with. Like, I’m sure we all could go on and on about how terrible this year truly was to each and every last one of us. Still, the year had some high points, which we pointed out earlier this week, but in the spirit of balance and equilibrium (it took me…
A year ago, when Raheem DeVaughn and I set out to create our new project, Footprints on the Moon, I never imagined the absurd experiences we would have. I was kindly escorted out of a Washington, D.C., club with R&B singer Christopher Williams, and heckled by El DeBarge and his entourage while performing in Anaheim,…
Amy Schumer has a vagina. Amy Schumer talks about her vagina a lot. Amy Schumer also talks about her vagina smelling like farm animals. Amy Schumer talks about binge drinking and passing out. These are all of the things I learned while watching Schumer’s The Leather Special on Netflix.
One of the most hilarious sketches on Chappelle’s Show was the Making the Band parody, which showed Dave Chappelle imitating Sean Combs and aspiring reggae artist Dylan Dili.
Dave Chappelle announced a $50,000 donation to the Community Foundation of Greater Flint during his charity show at the Whiting in Flint, Mich. The donation will help children who were exposed to the lead water in Flint as part of the ongoing Flint water crisis.
Just days after Donald Trump won the election, Dave Chappelle appeared on Saturday Night Live, and his monologue raised a lot of eyebrows when he ended it by asking people to give Trump a chance. But now it seems that Chappelle has realized the error of his ways.
Looks like Dave Chappelle is really, officially over his self-imposed exile from Hollywood. On the heels of his not-universally-loved Netflix comedy specials and appearance on Saturday Night Live, the 43-year-old comedian has officially joined the cast of the fourth remake of A Star Is Born.
Comedian Dave Chappelle gave his late friend Charlie Murphy a touching tribute at a John Mayer concert this week. Arguably the person who introduced Murphy to the masses, Chappelle made a surprise appearance at Mayer’s Columbus, Ohio, show on Wednesday, where he dedicated the Mayer song “You’re Gonna Live Forever in…
Out of the hundreds of perplexing and entertaining responses I received when writing about Dave Chappelle on VSB last week and then again at GQ this week — tweets, comments, and emails ranging from "you're a coon" and "y'all must've been bought by NBC or Home Depot or something" to remarkably descriptive suggestions…
Remember Evel Knievel? In the 1970s and ’80s, Robert “Evel” Knievel Jr. leaped into the American zeitgeist and became one of the most famous people in the country by electrifying audiences with his motorcycle stunts.
Approximately midway through one of his new Netflix comedy specials (the one he taped last year in L.A. — I've yet to see the one taped in Austin), Dave Chappelle made a shocking allusion to his age. I forgot exactly what he said and how he said it, but I remember being reminded of exactly how young he is, and how…
As of 12 a.m. Tuesday, Netflix had released the first of its three Dave Chappelle comedy series, which have marked the comedian’s comeback to television. But on Monday, the Washington, D.C.-raised comic spoke about the break he took from his career, as well as his issues with Key & Peele.
Comedian Dave Chappelle made an appearance recently at a City Council meeting in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio, where he leads a relatively quiet life with his family. The comedian came out of the woodwork to join a conversation about police violence and solutions, urging local cops to be more in touch with the…
