Name: Dave Chappelle Reveals The Biggest Perk Of Being Black | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Chappelle Reveals The Biggest Perk Of Being Black | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-11. Transcript available.

our next guest is a wonderful new comedian who's making his first appearance
with us tonight we
couldn't be happier he can be seen regularly at new york's boston comedy club
right here in town
ladies and gentlemen please give a nice warm welcome to dave chappelle dave
thank you thank you thank you i gotta tell you guys that was a beautiful new york
welcome
i moved to new york city three years ago no nice welcomes i got the bus at the
port authority
i was all happy i said new york city at last
damn this whole bus station stinks nah it'll probably clear up when i get
outside
every two blocks i smell something i never smelled before in my life
nobody told me black people can't catch cabs in new york i tried to catch a
camera at the port
authority a crowd started forming everyone just looking at me uh he's gonna be
disappointed
i was all naive i just taxi
must not have seen me taxi north brooklyn
hmm first time i caught a cable on the first try it scared the hell out of me
i don't know how to feel about it i just taxi
uh you better go ahead
i mean i'm not trying to say that being black is all bad
we got our perks like you guys uh take terrorism for example that's pretty good
a terrorist has never taken a black hostage in the history of the world
you will never see a black guy on the news reading one of those letters they is
treating us good never
it's true
you know why they don't take black hostages
why because we're bad bargaining chips they would call up the white house hello
we have got five black people and we were hello
now don't tense up for me i want you guys to think i'm like an angry black guy
i mean i am an
angry black guy but you know what i mean i have a right to be an angry black
guy though it's different
for me see i don't know if you guys believe in reincarnation or not but i have
been black four lives in a row
i need a break
you know i mean when i was younger i was real angry like you wouldn't know
looking at me you'd say what a
nice looking guy oh
well i got suspended from junior high school 23 times during february
i was right one time i got hold of all my teachers home phone numbers
now i feel bad about it now but at the time it was hilarious
i started calling in death threats
i called my english teacher mr johnson he was all nice he just
hello
is this mr johnson
uh yes it is and who might this be
you're a dead man
who is this don't worry about that punk you're gonna die
unless you change david chapelle's grades click
i'm telling you man you get older though you start seeing things for what they
are see i'm not angry
anymore i think it's more a paranoia i'm what they call a racially paranoid
person you know what i mean
like i just started eating chicken in front of white people like three weeks
ago i'm very proud to see
before i was too scared i know it sounds crazy i always thought you might say
something
like i'm gonna be eating some chicken
look at him he loves it
just like it said in the encyclopedia
don't laugh too much we got stereotypes for white people too
this one is kind of crazy i hope you don't get mad don't be mad when i was
little i used to think
that all white people don't get angry i thought all white people were were
happy
just to be white i know i'm saying silly man i thought you guys just walked
around
hallelujah i'm white this is wonderful i feel like i'm king of the hill top of
the heap
a number one taxi just checking go ahead thank you thank you thank you thank
you thank you thank you
you did you didn't bring your own in did you oh no no but i was talking about
taking that one
all right no everything's inventoried i'm going to collect this nice job dave
thank you very much
how old a guy are you i'm 20 i'll be 21 a week from today yeah pretty good
pretty good pretty damn good
i feel good about it you're doing well for yourself then yeah well you know
things are really picking up
i'm a long way from where i started which is always a good thing yeah you were
you were just
uh overseas you were in england london is that where you were yes man man i'm
gonna tell you
something i went to england i found out it was a fact that that the police
really don't carry guns
that's right which i thought was like a myth man people still listen to him
it's true man you know what they got they got these whistles
it's like the most amazing thing i saw a guy running from the cops like 15 cops
chasing him i think he stole
a pencil or something now this guy is running i mean he is really i mean i
thought he was going to get
away all of a sudden
hey good to have you here happy birthday sir come back and see us dave chappelle
ladies and gentlemen
we'll be right back with godson crazy