Greatest Story of all times - Dave Chappelle

thank you flag I want to share this story with you because it's important to this point I want your community to know that one of the coolest people I ever met was transgender woman and this is not a man that I knew that became a woman this woman was trans when I met her lived in San Francisco Daphne dwarman is a name I would do 18 shows in the Bay Area sometimes in Oakland and dirty Hood nightclub and she would be there a white trans woman laughing loud and hard and everything I said especially the trans jokes very puzzling because she was obviously trans and one night after one of the shows I met up and what it was turns out it was a dream to be a comedian and I was a hero it's very moving I could not dislike somebody that felt that way about me we became Fast Friends and when I made that special Sticks and Stones right as it was coming out I happened to be in San Francisco and I wanted to do a show but I needed an opening act and I remembered that trans woman I met so I called her on the phone and I called her myself I said hey Daphne this is Dave Chappelle she couldn't believe it and I go I'm in San Francisco and then she started seeing a bunch of wild stuff I was like relaxed now I don't want any [ __ ] I was um I was calling because I'm doing a show and I I need an opening act and I was wondering if you'd open the show and she was like [ __ ] yeah now I didn't know this at the time but but this woman had only done stand-up comedy eight times in her life this is little to no experience and now she's about to open a show for what many call the goat thank you she's an amateur and stature but in practice she was very professional she showed up early which is something I appreciate because I like people to be on time she was dressed to the [ __ ] nines I mean I'm transphobic and even I was like you look nice went up on the stage with all the swag of a professional comedian grab that mic and walk right down the middle and looked at the crowd like a gangster man you should have seen her work it's bombed for 45 minutes straight and I am not exaggerating young man that show was terrible stop and then she brings me on and you know you know I was like a glass of water after a handful of salt the crowd was happy to see me I was killing it but here's what impressed me any other comedian I've ever seen if they had bombed as bad as she did would have snuck out of the back of the theater and went home and cried or something and she didn't do that not only did she not leave she found a seat right up in front you know when a new comedian watches an experienced comedian and comedy we call this taking class and this [ __ ] took my whole class she sat up there and was laughing as hard as she always laughs as if nothing bad had even happened to her and I saw her show something bad happened to it laughs she was drunk so she starts talking to me while I'm on stage but the way a person would talk to a television when they were alone she's talking to me like that didn't bother me because I knew him but the crowd didn't like that [ __ ] at all because she sucked and a guy in the back of the room stood up and Daphne's hair was dyed blonde at the time and the guy screamed out and his Energy felt wild as [ __ ] he said hey Daphne and everybody got tense we didn't know it was a Heckler or active shooter and he said he said does the carpet match the drapes hey it was [ __ ] up the whole crowd kind of grown because it was so like mean everybody grown except for Daphne she kind of laughed which was weird and then she didn't even look all the way back she said sir I don't have carpets I have hardwood floors just like that just like that thank you and boy when she said that [ __ ] it blew the roof off the place cut through all the tension with that one joke she made up for 45 minutes of a sticker of a shot [Applause] and after that she could do no wrong and I kept on rocking she kept on talking to me and then the show became something cooler than a show this became like a conversation between a black man and a white trans woman and we started getting to the bombership all them questions that you think about it you'd be afraid to ask I was just asking him and she was answering them and her answers were funny as [ __ ] the crowd was falling out of the chairs and and at the end of the show I go oh Daphne I said well that was fun I go I go I love you to death but I have no [ __ ] idea what you're talking about the whole crowd laughed except for Daphne now she looks at me like I'm not her friend anymore like I'm something bigger than me like I'm the whole world and the guy and she said I don't need you to understand me I said what she said I just need you to believe just like this she goes that I'm having a human experience and she said it the whole crowd kind of gasps and I gave her Fight Club I said I believe you [ __ ] because she didn't say anything about pronouns she didn't say anything about me being in trouble she said just believe I'm a person and I'm going through it you know I believe you because it takes one to know one then I told the crowd good night and they start going crazy before the Applause gets to his Crescendo I say and don't forget my opening act Daphne and crowd stood up and I looked at the tears came out of her eyes she couldn't believe it was happening I couldn't believe what's happening because her show stuck it was a great night I remember the late great Paul Mooney was there a bunch of fly-ass Comedy [ __ ] was there and we all went backstage and was just drinking and talking [ __ ] and laughing and dancing he stole the room she had everyone cracking up spinning the yarn telling us all these crazy stories about [ __ ] she be into we all laughing real hard and then she's telling us and everyone's laughing I'm looking around I'm like oh my God she is funny I put her aside and I said you're hilarious I didn't know that when you were on stage I said you're doing some things wrong but I can help you I said anytime I'm in San Francisco why don't you open the show for me and I'll just try to give you some point and see if you can't work this thing out and she was like yeah and she grabbed it real type Huggle squeezing and I pushed her off violently because I'm transphobian I said boundary boundaries [ __ ] [Applause] when Sticks and Stones came out a lot of people in the trans Community were furious with me and apparently they dragged me on Twitter I don't give a [ __ ] cause Twitter's not a real place and the hardest thing for a person to do is go against their tribe if they disagree with their tribe but Daphne did that for me she wrote a tweet that was very beautiful and what she said was there's almost exactly what she said she said punching down on someone requires you to think less of them and I know him and he doesn't he doesn't punch up he doesn't punch down he punches lines and he's a master at his crafts that's what she said beautiful tweet beautiful friend that took a lot of heart to defend me like that and when she did that the trans Community dragged that [ __ ] all over Twitter for days they was going in on her and she was on her own because she's funny but six days after that wonderful night I described to you my friend Daphne killed herself oh yeah it's true story my heart was broken yeah when the jokes I don't know if it was them Dragon I don't know what's going on in her life but I bet dragging her didn't help I was very angry at them I was very angry at her I felt like Daphne lied to me she always said she identified as a woman and then one day she goes up to the roof of a building and jumps off and kills herself clearly only a man would do some gangster [ __ ] like that hear me out as hot as it is to hear a joke like that I'm telling you right now Daphne would have loved that joke that's why she was my friend all right

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Length: 9min 22sec (562 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 16 2023