“I like you so much, you’re the only interview I’ve done in the last few days where I’m not playing video games at the same time,” Ron Funches tells me on this bonus episode of The Last Laugh podcast, letting out one of his signature belly laughs. The exceptional stand-up comedian was our third guest on the podcast all the way back in April of last year when he was promoting his first big hour-long special for Comedy Central called Giggle Fit, in which he talked about how losing 140 pounds transformed both his body and his comedy mind. In the […]
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The special, more of a social commentary than a traditional comedy set, was released Thursday in the wake of over two weeks of protests across the US and around the world following the choking death of an unarmed and subdued African American at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer on May 25. Comedian Dave Chappelle has dropped a new special dedicated to the death of George Floyd, the protests, and race relations in the US, with the 27 minute monologue racking up nearly 12 million views less than two days its release on Netflix’s YouTube account. The special, entitled […]
Dave Chappelle released an unannounced Netflix special in the early hours of Friday that tears into the media and calls on America to listen to the protest movement that has risen up to demand an end to more than a century of oppression. The comedian said he couldn’t bring himself to watch the killing of George Floyd for a week, but as soon as he did, he understood why the U.S was witnessing one of the most widespread protest movements in 50 years. “This kid thought he was going to die, he knew he was going to die. He called for […]