Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable

I guess not everything Dave does is gold.

I usually LOVE Dave Chappelle and consider him one of the greatest comedians, which made The Unstoppable especially disappointing.

While his anger on many of the topics he tackles feels understandable - and at times even warranted - the material too often comes across as "punching down," which drains much of the humor and insight that normally define his work. Over the course of the hour and fifteen minutes, I only chuckled lightly a couple of times, and that's a far cry from what I expect from a Chappelle special. The delivery felt heavier than clever, more bitter than sharp, and lacking the balance that once made his commentary both provocative and hilarious. I wanted to love this one, but unfortunately, it just didn't land for me.

Unfortunately Dave Chappelle has gone the way of so many other very talented performers in getting wrapped up in their own ego and success. This show was mildly funny, but mostly was focused on "look at me," "look at how many celebrities I hang out with," "look at how popular I am." He talks a lot about his show in Saudi Arabia, about how well received he was there and how much more he can say there vs in the U. S. - of course, he's a privileged male pandering to a bunch of other privileged males over there. This might be the last show of his I'll watch.

I consider Chappelle one of the greatest American comedians of all time. But what has been creeping into his last two specials has now come to suffocate this one.

Chappelle brings in the moral closing of his show before even half of the running time has passed, which means we get Dave in full sermon mode much earlier than usual - a worsening problem - with the joke density dropping to an uncomfortably low level. Don't expect this seriousness to be undercut by a sudden "and all this time Bill Cosby was..."-style turn, either. This tone remains firmly in place.

I wish he would leave the politics aside, stop using racial issues as an applause trigger, and return to the unpredictable, morally ambiguous comedy that once made him so compelling. If this continues, I honestly doubt I'll manage to sit through it next time - which would be something, considering how often I've rewatched his earlier work.

Maybe Dave is simply getting old and wants to make the world a better place now. If that's the case, it's time to move on and look elsewhere. Maybe the next Anthony Jeselnik special - not as monumental a talent, but at least still edgy and focused on comedy first.

I used to love Dave, considered him one of the greatest comedians, always made me laugh, but this time around he stunk!

His choice in material was awful! It wasn't all that funny, and I'm sorry, but you should be able to speak to everyone, not purposely trying to alienate half the country with your skewed politics and altered views.

Of course he has to bring up Trump, and of course he has to make fun of Charlie Kirk which was in poor taste, and I don't care what your beliefs are. I didn't know or listen to the guy myself, but I still think it was in poor taste.

Using the N word too much, chain smoking on stage, wearing a hideous jacket with that idiots name on the back (if you watched you know who I'm referring to) it was a bomb for me.

Now of course we all know a certain demographic loved it, and I guess that's fine..They love low brow humor, throw in the N word A LOT, with rap music, and it's a good night for them. Me though, I expected more from Dave. I give this one 5 stars, and I feel that's more than generous.

This show was unwatchable, not funny, full of intrupting audience, he was high as kite, chain smoking was cringe. Enough of the race politics, how rich you are.. A real let down. I only laughed about 3 times.

We don't need the history lesson at a stand up comedy show. What a waste of time.

Start being funny again smokey.