Dave Chappelle and the Little Set that Could
April 19th, 2007 by Sam
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Who says no one has any lasting power in show business? You can’t say that about Dave Chappelle, certainly not after his gig at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. He was on stage for no less that six hours and seven minutes. That’s a LOT of jokes, kids, and I’m sure most of them I couldn’t repeat for the younger readers out there. The previous endurance record had stood at four hours, held by a guy named Dan Cook. Yeah, I don’t know he either. Before him Richard Prior set the record at over two hours in 1980.Can you imagine what it must have been like to be in the audience? I wonder, did he give himself time to pee or did he stand there crossing his legs until he could make them laugh no more? My hat is totally off to the guy. I’ve know Chapelle was an innovator, but it says something about the man’s dedication to his craft that he was able to have material enough for such a marathon set, let alone be able to pull it off. I really hope they recorded it, and that it will be on a DVD shelf near me soon.