Dave Chappelle: Living in real life It is the documentary that the comedian made during the Covid pandemia.
Under locks, the 51 -year -old man decided to do something for his community, so he organized socially distanced concerts with his friends, comedians and musicians, as well as filming the entire process for the documentary.
Initially it was titled Dave Chappelle: This time, this place, while Steven Bogner and Julia Reichert directed it.
In the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021, the documentary was released, but in the same year, the Dave’s stand-up special, The closer, It caused a violent reaction for transphobic jokes, which, in turn, impacted the distribution of the project.
But now, the documentary is retained as Dave Chappelle lives in real life while projected at the 23rd Annual African -American Film Festival Vineyard Martha’s Vineyard (MVAFFF).
Variety He informed, the Hornered half Being in a direction to the audience on the stage of their transphobic jokes said: “The Grammys and the Emmys disregard me because someone thought it was a good idea to tell them trans jokes.”
He continued: “He took a lot of courage so that all those comedians came out because Covid was very new. Everyone was still so isolated and it was a real fear.”
“And the other thing is that nobody had worked on a hundred nights. Everyone stinks when they got there, but it didn’t matter. It was very funny to be together again. It was like when we all started in the comedy club, we realized how much we loved being to each other,” added the star.
In addition, Dave shared that his Alma Mater, the Duke Ellington School of Arts in Washington, DC, will receive the income from the sale of entries of the event.
“Ellington gave me a sense of community. It was a predominantly black school when I went there, and that was important because everything in the news was very negative,” concluded the comedian.
