Chappelle disses Key & Peele - "They been doing my show the last 5 f*cking years"

[8WON6]

I think other CC shows tried to copy like the style and pacing or whatever of Chappelle Show but without race. Key and Peele were clearly trying be black (but we half white yall!) guys. I think that's why he specifically named them. Chappelle was some whole new shyt though, in my opinion. Doing all the skits taped and not with an audience, where In Living Color was shot more like SNL. That's why I think people kind of reaching talkin bout In Living Color started that style. In Living Color was way more slapstick comedy. Chappelle show had alot more nuance and intellect to it.

 

[hayesc0]

neal brennan's talked about this too. them dudes clearly jacked their style but that nikka walked away so

This is what I was thinking he didnt want to do the show anymore you know eventually someone is gonna come in and do some version of what you were doing. Its rare that you see a totally original concept and really even the chappelle show was not original it was basically a newer in living color but edgier since it was on cable.

 

[Roaden Polynice]

I like both shows...but looking back, and especially watching Chappelle's Show now, it's overrated by a lot of people...as you can see in this thread.

 

[85 East]

Chappelle's show was the best social/racial satire ever, but people stopped laughing at the satire and started laughing at the racism. If he didn't quit, the show would have been ruined and become a bit corny lIke K&P. K&P is funmy, buy lacks that social justice/ether that DC delivered. Add Paul Mooney and Charlie Murphy in the mix and you had an amazing 2 and a half seasons of pure genius. Dave is the last of a dying breed. Real comics who change the world, and a black comic who transcended color while speaking on it. Only the greats do that. Pryor, Foxx, Murphy, Carlin. That absolute truth in jest. Today Luis CK maybe comes close, but Dave did it with a smirk the whole time. Classic.

 

[hayesc0]

I think that was the last straw but it started with Fox trying to censor the show. Tommy Davidson talked about recently for the 25th Anniversary. You have to remember "In Living Color" was like a R-rated "Saturday Night Live" on primetime television.

Did the network start to set more and more boundaries as the show went on?

Every show. Every freaking show. Every episode. It never ended. It was a constant battle. But, the battle was won for us; now TV can do whatever it wants to do because of us. We’re the ones that went out there and really cracked that thing open.

We should make a thread on the death of in living color and some of the other black shows that got fukked up over the years I dont know all the details on this I remember them changing everything but thats it.

 

[wire28]

this sounds like sour grapes to me. Two similar, yet ultimately Different shows

both were great IMO.


couldn't see chappelle do this skit

the very first episode of Daves show was a black white supremacist, and you dont think he couldnt do the black ice skit

 

[Rekkapryde]

Yeah, because Dave Chappelle invented the sketch comedy show


K&P is nothing like Chapelle's Show, besides the fact that it's on Comedy Central.

 

[YaBishh]

key and peele has some good skits, but dave the goat both in stand up and in shows

 

[Steezy]

Key & Peele did a lot more race stuff than Chappelle...

the hell was that bullshyt

 

[Jplaya2023]

i never seen the key-peele show

 

[Supa]

WHAT? Race jokes were Dave's whole niche.. The skit is exactly something Chappelle WOULD do. The fukk are you talking about?

What black comedian hasn't done race jokes? Dave doesn't own that. Eddie was doing race sketches on SNL, Chris Rock on SNL and his show, and In Living Color too.




Were the Prince/Rick James, NY Boobs, Dudes Night Out, or Player Haters Ball sketches about race? He didn't only touch on race so how was it his niche?

Dave is on some sucker shyt because their shows aren't even similar. 95% of their sketches aren't even something Dave and Neil would create.





Black comedians gotta stop being crabs.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Naw Dave was doing that show and figured out white viewers were laughing at him not with him and it ate him up so he quit. It wasn't about selling out. He had white folks on his staff. His cowriter was white.

I'm saying...he's explained this ad-nauseum in the years following him quitting the show

It wasn't about the money it was about the fact that the show wasn't what what he envisioned to be. He was constantly trying to get messages across in his work while still being funny but he woke up one day and realized "Why are people laughing at the jokes"? Compound that with the fact that white people were laughing at his jokes but completely missing the fact that a lot of his comedy was him pointing out the absurdity of certain societal issues and racial issues in this country.

He just reached a moment where his conscience was talking to him and he didn't like what he was hearing.

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Y'all need to relax

That wasn't "ether" that was barely a diss. Everybody knows that show is a knock off from the Chappelle Show but so? I don't blame comedy central or Key and Peele for trying to recreate the best show that they've had...

It's not that funny to my personally, very hit and miss, but I can't knock them for trying

I love Dave Chappelle easily one of my top 3 comedians... But he really can't legit be mad about the shyt when he dipped by choice....

Thats like me walking out on my 9-5 job and being mad when I find out a week later they hired someone to replace me

 

[D-NICE]

Black comedians gotta stop being crabs.

This.

As far as Dave goes, if he wanted a show, he could have a show. He might not get a $50 million dollar deal but fox, hbo, etc. would give dude a show in a heartbeat if he came asking to have one. He got like one of the highest selling dvd sets of all time. I don't care if he walked out or not, some company would give him some money and air time just for the opportunity of those sells or ratings coming their way. Comedy Central ain't the only channel so why he hating on those dudes for trying to eat where he used to work at when he could easily go out there and do it.

As far as Key & Peele and a lot of comedians who get shows, I feel they almost get forced into a Chappelle show type format when they start. That lets show you interacting with the crowd being funny before the skit type format. It was a successful format but then comedians get accused of biting when their skit format could be completely different from Chappelle's. K&P did that for awhile and probably as soon as they could they dropped it and started that 3 season long skit. I wish those guys didn't have to start like that because they never really looked comfortable during those portions of the show and they got that moniker of being a Chappelle Show knock off even though their styles were different.

 

[I love Latina women]

Key and peele is absolutely horrible