Sticks & Stones: LGBT community is powerful || Dave Chappelle

[Applause] celebrity hunting season doesn't matter what i say they're gonna get everybody eventually like look i don't think i did anything wrong but but we'll see they even got poor kevin hart can you imagine such thing kevin hart let me tell you something it was it was kevin hart's dream to host the oscars that's what he told me and i remember when he told me because i was thinking to myself well it's an awfully strange dream for an african-american kind of [ __ ] dreams of hosting the oscars kevin did that's who and he did it against all the odds kevin became the most famous comedian this world has ever seen and he got the job that only one black man performer had he was going to host the 80th oscars and i don't know what you know about kevin but i know kevin hart is damn near perfect as close to perfect as anybody i've ever seen in fact kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect 10 years ago kevin had made some very homophobic comments and i'm not going to repeat what he said because this is atlanta you know what i mean i'm sure there's a lot of gay men here tonight with their wives far be it for me to offend anybody all right i'll tell you what he said but just remember these are not my words these were kevin's words it was a long time ago and i'm paraphrasing because i'm not good at telling other people's jokes okay kevin said [Applause] that if his little son was demonstrating or or uh homosexual behavior around the house to dechastise him he'd say hey that's gay and then he said he would smash a dollhouse over that child's head oh the gate community was furious and i don't blame them i got a lot of gay friends and all of them 100 of them all have told me [ __ ] horror stories about the [ __ ] they had to go through just to be themselves crazy crazy stories and all those stories i gotta say not one of them has ever mentioned anything like their father smashing a [ __ ] doll house over their head because clearly kevin was joking think about it he would have the brightest [ __ ] dollhouse to break it over his head in the first place does that sound right is anybody going to do that the gay community was upset and then they put so much pressure on the academy of motion pictures and sciences that they went to kevin and said if you don't apologize to that community then you cannot host these oscars and then kevin said [ __ ] it i quit and then he went on every talk show in america and apologized for six weeks [Applause] kevin [ __ ] up i understand the mistake you made because i've made the same mistake early in my career many years ago 15 years ago that's when i was doing chappelle show there's a thank you thank you on network television they have a department that's called standards and practices this is the department that tells you what you can and cannot say on television and if you're doing your job well you should never hear from them but if you're making chappelle show you'll hear from these [ __ ] all the time and remember this is 15 years ago i made a mistake i didn't even know i had done anything wrong i had written a sketch that had the word [ __ ] [Applause] so i had to go to standards and practices they called me up i don't know why they're calling me but i like the lady that runs the department she's usually really fair and was one of my favorite people i've ever worked with so she sits me down we have nice conversation she tells me all the sketches are great like oh fantastic well then why am i here she said because david there's no way that you can ever say the word [ __ ] on our network i didn't know i did anything wrong i didn't try to defend myself and said all right [ __ ] it i'll take it out have a good afternoon and as i was leaving it occurred to me hey hey renee quick question it's just a question i'm serious i want to know like why is it why is it that that i can say the word [ __ ] with impunity but i can't say the word [ __ ] and she said because david you are not gay i said well renee i'm not a [ __ ] either but you see what i didn't realize at the time and what kevin had to learn the hard way is we were breaking an unwritten and unspoken rule of show business and if i say it you'll know that i'm telling you the truth the rule is that no matter what you do in your artistic expression you are never ever allowed to upset the alphabet people

Channel: Dave Chappelle

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Id: CLCZsxWv_mA

Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020