Deeamn!: Manohla Dargis' Gush on Dave Chappelle
The New York Times‘ chief film critic used her review of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party to defend the comedian’s well-publicized feud with Comedy Central and blasted his critics, all before gushing about the new Michel Gondry-directed flick:
The performer left Chappelle’s Show in a smog of rumor, some of which is still stinking up the Internet, where anonymous cowards offer conspiracy theories in the name of who knows what.
Then brief, reflective pause:
But Mr. Chappelle looked and sounded profoundly sane on James Lipton‘s Inside the Actors Studio last month where, between cigarettes and jokes, he offered a mesmerizing, occasionally heart-melting glimpse into both the pressures of his fish-bowl existence and what it can mean for a black man when he makes white people laugh.
Then,
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