Dave Chappelle Life Advice Will Leave You Speechless

i found an altitude i was comfortable with you know i found a way to to do what i like to do and avoid some of the parts of it that i was uncomfortable with what were you uncomfortable with well i mean if you look at me right physically you know now i'm like 40 pounds heavier than i was when i did chappelle show and people like how did you gain all that weight by resting and eating and paying attention to myself i have actual relationships with my kids i've been all over the country touring all my life but i never saw anything now i've seen everything i could talk to people i could i had time to stop if someone said they liked me it wasn't like i'd brush past i'm like i don't want to hear it i had time to stop like you do you know me it's like it was just like the way that i engaged the world was different i just hope that all of you guys transcend whatever you see as your obstacles and that you live outstanding lives and that you stay connected to your communities because you have so much power there and that you grow your communities and you diversify communities and that you don't let anybody anybody tell you you can't or to be afraid it's okay to be afraid because you can't be brave or courageous without fear the idea of being courageous is that even though you're scared you just do the right thing anyway so in 2004 i walked away from 50 million dollars and in november i made a deal for 60 million so although i am not the most famous comedian of my time i would like to know what their great grandfathers did i'm i'm very proud today thank you very much i watched one of these nature shows one time and they were talking about how a bushman finds water when it's scarce and they do what's called a salt trap i i didn't notice apparently baboons love salt okay so they put a lump of salt in a hole and they wait for the baboon the baboon comes sticks his hand in the hole grabs the salt salt makes his hand bigger and he's trapped he can't get his hand out baboon doesn't want to let go of the salt then the bushman just comes takes the baboon throws him in the cage and gives him all the salt he wants and then the baton gets thirsty the bushman lets that's about the cage the first place the baboon runs two is water bushman follows them and they both drink to their field and that analogy i felt like the baboon but i was smart enough to let go of the salt everything changed that bad children i took it i took my professional life more seriously and then i think just as a dude i had more depth after i had kids you know i don't have this thing where i link my self-esteem to work anymore i don't know what that means when you're young you know you know that you're only as good as your last show and all that stuff and so you know you'll meet comics who'll do a bad show and then feel bad about themselves i don't do that anymore for me the beauty is in the attempt the beauty isn't like that that long walk to the stage to the microphone i can't explain it but that's what it is like you know the eye contact i you know one time i did a show and my kids were there and i was getting heckled and all kinds of stuff and i remember i looked at my son he was staying on the side of the stage and he's looking all this chaos and i go son they'll never break me and we both started laughing it was chaos out there we both started laughing but that's kind of what it is it's like it's fun you have no idea what i put this woman through if you were just giving birth to me that would have been more than enough with the fact that she raised me and raised me well he had a real oral tradition in our house i knew the word griot when i was a little boy griot was a person in africa who was charged with keeping the stories of the village everyone would tell agreeable the stories and they would remember them all so that they could tell future generations when they got old they'd tell them to someone else and they say in africa when a griot dies it's like a library was burnt down and my mother used to tell me before i ever thought about doing comments she said you should be a griot and she'd fill me with every story of black life you know she's educated in african american studies and she would let me understand the context that i was being raised in that i'm being raised in a hostile environment that i have to tame by the time i was 14 years old i was in nightclubs mastering an adult world i was terrified crack epidemic was going on and my mother would hear gunshots outside and be scared of death maybe it's my son but early in my career if you remember mom you used to sit in the club with me she'd do a full day of work you'd be back there falling asleep just waiting for me to go on she would watch my show every night do you know how long that car ride is home [Applause] [Music] how many of you have ever heard your mother say jokes were a little too much tonight son [Applause] i was a soft kid i was sensitive i'd cry easy and i would be scared to fist fight and my mother used to tell me this thing i don't know if you remember but you said this to me more than once you said son sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are i talk this like a lion i'm not afraid of any of you when it comes word to word i will gab with the best of them just so i can chill and be me and that's why i love my art form because i understand every practitioner of it whether i agree with them or not i know where they're coming from they want to be heard they got something to say there's something they notice they just want to be understood love this genre it saved my life i forgot the the hostility of the environment of show business it's a you know it's not a docile environment it's a challenging environment yes you know and there's some quote that someone had told me that says success takes you where character cannot sustain you wow oh yeah i don't care who you think you are or how you think you do it you cannot imagine what celebrities go through as far as how your integrity and your self-image and all this stuff okay you know uh i was gonna stop doing stand-up for a while because four comedy specials in a year is like that's a lot you know but you know shout out to my colleagues in comedy uh i just want i just want to say that in a way this for me belongs to my mother primarily who was a african-american studies professor and a lot of the content that i you know that i say she you know she raised me well i'm not an uninformed person uh but also you know my colleagues in comedy like comedian's been getting beat up pretty bad recently and somehow nowadays expected to speak with the precision of attorneys or politicians we are not i always think of james baldwin you know james baldwin was one of my favorite writers because he managed to tell white people what they feel like to be around so i ain't gonna hang up my gloves yet i think i got one more special in me so the quote baldwin god gave noah the rainbow sand there's no more water it's the fire next time thank you very much this is a there's a matt granny quote matt graham that created the simpsons there's this famous quote where he says the world is filled with people who are dying to be offended by something what the world has now is the internet for those people to voice their offense so they can make something out of nothing they can spend your work and make something that's beautiful look like it's ugly and vice versa it's like i say my special this is the age of spin so so everyone is becoming a spin doctor of source now granted comedians make mistakes it's part of the job you know and some mistakes are easily forgivable some are wildly more extreme but the idea is that we want a society where we are late allowed to make mistakes we're able to voice our opinions and change our opinions i just want you guys to remember you know that right now there's this thing where where ethics aren't what they used to be this idea that people are trying to replace the ideas of good and bad with better or worse and that is incorrect you got keep your ethics intact because good and bad is a compass that helps you find a way and a person that only does what's better or worse is the easiest type of person to control they are a mouse and a maze that just finds the cheese but the one who knows about good and bad will realize that he's in a maze miles davis said so much cool he said it took me years to learn how to play like myself you know he would watch other musicians and he would try to play like dizzy or bird or all the guys who were great tony woods was my dizzying bird if i was a miles i was trying to play like you you were the first person i ever saw do it absolutely right it was fearless he told the truth there's something so true about this genre when done correctly this is the truth and you are obstructing it i'm not talking about the content i'm talking about the art form

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Length: 10min 28sec (628 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 06 2021