chapelle is less comedic and more satiric — i think it would be infuriating, after so long, to be seen as chris rock instead of as a cultural critic. “killing ’em softly” is still, for me, the zenith of chapelle’s catalog, because he was free to talk about what HE wanted to talk about, without the pressure to be “funny.”

tho the black, blind KKK member sketch from season 1 was still pretty close to chapelle’s best critical work.

so glad i got to see him at msu…so sad that a good deal of the audience didn’t realize they were laughing at him, not with him.