Equanimity: Growing Up Poor || Dave Chappelle

i can't remember a time when i wasn't you know when i was growing up it's probably about eight years old and at the time we were living in silver spring yeah yes common misconception about me in dc a lot of people think i'm from the hood that's not true but i never bothered to correct anybody because i wanted the streets to embrace me as a matter of fact i kept it up as a ruse like sometimes i hang out with rappers like nas and them and these [ __ ] start talking about the projects yo it was wild in the pjs yo and i'd be like word [ __ ] work but i don't know i have no idea my parents did just well enough so that i could grow up poor around white people [Applause] and to be honest when nas and them talk about the projects [ __ ] i used to get jealous because it sounded fun everybody in the projects was poor and that's fair but if you were pouring silver spring [ __ ] it felt like it was only happening to you nas does not know the pain of that first sleepover at a white friend's house when you come back home on sunday and just look at your parents like y'all need to step your game up everything in timmy's house works remember the first time you saw that in a cold winter and to be at a white friend's house and see the [ __ ] in their living room without their coats on timmy was one of my first white friends like in my life man good dude too he moved to silver spring from utah of all places i guess his family was affiliated with that mormon church they got down there and me and him used to hang out and one day i was at his house we were just hanging out and timmy says dave why don't you stay for dinner tonight i said oh man i'd love to but i can't if i'm not home before dark my mother will kill me that was a lot my mother had several jobs i hadn't seen her like three or four days and the only reason i lied to timmy was because at that point in my life it was my experience that white dinner wasn't delicious [Applause] i'd rather go home and fry some bologna or some [ __ ] like that but then old timmy threw me a curveball i wasn't expecting he said oh it's too bad you can't stay dave because um mama made stovetop stuffing i said what the [ __ ] stovetop hold on [ __ ] let me make some phone calls real quick i had seen that commercial so many times i had dreamt of getting my hands on some of that stove top stuffing and finally i met a [ __ ] that actually had a box of stovetop in the house i couldn't miss this opportunity so i pretended to call my mother and then i came back and i said timmy timmy you're not going to believe this great news mom said i can stay and he said fantastic he said why don't you come with me and we'll help set the table and then we can say the blessing i had no interest in setting this motherfucker's table saying these crazy-ass mormon prayers i just wanted that god damn stuffing so i told him i said you know what i'd love to help but let me go wash my hands first my plan was simple wash my hands slowly and by the time i'm done the table will be sent the blessing will be said and all that there will be left to do is eat i went to the bathroom i washed my hands very slowly i must have been in there for about 10 minutes and suddenly one of his mothers came to the door [Applause] she was like hi david right i said yes ma'am she said timmy tells me that you're planning on staying for dinner i said i hope that's not a problem ma'am she says no it's no problem in fact we'd love to have you it's just that we weren't expecting company and i'm afraid there's not enough stove top stuffing for everybody so i kicked her in the [ __ ] bam ladies and gentlemen i told you i'm dope [ __ ] i told you i was gonna say and you still didn't see it coming and that's why i make the big bucks [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: Dave Chappelle Stand-Up

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Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 17 2020