Name: Louis C.K on Working With Dave Chappelle
Uploaded: 2022-11-25T16:00:32.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis C.K on Working With Dave Chappelle' from I'm Not Louis on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Louis C.K on Working With Dave Chappelle' from I'm Not Louis on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-11-25. Transcript available.

It was amazing.
And Chappelle's shows, did you do any of his shows?
I did all of them in Austin.
We did them all together at Stubbs Amphitheater.
That's right.
Well, he invited me out to...
Yellow Springs.
Yellow Springs.
And besides being in his world, which is wild, you know, Chappelle Land,
being able to do shows there in this cornfield, you know,
and other comedians are so...
Last time I saw Bob Saget, I got to see him one more time.
And we were all together again, and, you know, it was really something.
It was great.
Yeah, there was something special.
The shows that we did in Stubbs, like, Dave called me up,
and he said, hey, let's do comedy, you know?
And it's like, let's just test everybody.
It'll cost a lot of money and take a lot of time,
but it'll be a lot of fun.
And we did it, and it was...
They were some of the most magical moments ever,
because while we were there, we were like,
oh, I can't believe we're doing this.
This is really happening.
Yes.
I really didn't think it would happen, at least for a very long time.
And there I am with Dave and Michelle Wolf, and we're talking jokes.
Yeah.
And Dave would just host the shows
and just be really, like, a comedy club host,
like, talking to the crowd and just doing silly bits.
I loved watching him.
And then we'd all go to his crazy barn,
and just everybody would dance, and it was nuts.
It was crazy.
He's doing it right.
He's an unusual person in the greatest sense ever.
I had this one moment of Chappelle
that tells me, like, who he is deep inside.
He's a public guy, and he's had a varied and complex life,
but this is who he is to me.
I was...
After one of the shows in Yellow Spring,
he has, like, this, you know, a big...
Like, his own little nightclub
with a DJ station and a bar,
and everybody went there afterwards.
And they're playing really loud music,
mostly black people.
And me and Noam, who owns the Comedy Cellar,
we're sort of standing.
We're the two wallflowers kind of just watching, you know.
And these guys, they're in a mob,
just dancing and dancing to all kinds of music.
Nirvana at one point,
old hip-hop, new, you know, weird...
Alanis Morissette, just anything.
Yeah.
And they're dancing,
and I look at Chappelle,
and he's got his kind of half-lidded,
he's smoking red eyes,
and he's watching,
and at one point,
he just went into the middle of the crowd of people,
and he just started pushing them, like this,
and he made a circle.
He just gently shoved people,
and he made them clear a circle.
And then there was...
There was a lot of kids around,
and there was this little black girl
with very skinny...
Just a little skinny girl,
and he just took her by the hand
and put her in the middle of the circle,
and then he backed off,
and then she started dancing, like...
And everyone went wild
and just watched her do this.
He saw this...
I watched him decide this.
I'm going to make this space,
I'm going to put this little black girl in it,
and then he just backed off,
and he just sort of...
was pleased at what he created.
Oh, it was an unbelievable moment.
He's the guy that taught me
to listen to music
before he'd go on stage.
He has a playlist that he plays,
and he would always bring
these big JBL boomboxes
with him everywhere,
and I started bringing one
on the road with me, too,
because it sets a tone
for, like, the green room.
But when we were doing
these shows at Stubbs,
he was listening to this
one Nina Simone track,
and he would listen to it
over and over.
What was it?
Do you know what the song was?
I wish I could remember,
but we were blasted.
We were out of our minds.
We were so stoned
and so drunk,
but it was just to see him
take in this art,
to see him take in
this Nina Simone song.
He had, like, his eyes closed
and he was, like,
smoking a cigarette,
and, you know,
and he would go,
hold on, this is one part right here.
This is one part,
and he would, like, play it again.
Like, oh, man.
Yeah, he's a great appreciator
of life.
Now, he loves art, too.
He has a deep respect
for people's creations,
you know, like,
to the bone.
Like, he really loves it.
Really loves doing it.
You know,
he really loves creating it,
really loves listening to it.
It's like,
he's doing it right.
He's doing it right,
and he's doing it
in his own vibe, you know.
He's got his own sort of space
that he's created,
his own vibration.
That's a hard thing
to have right now.
Yeah.
Well, he's another one.
He doesn't listen to shit.
He's not reading social media.
He doesn't have anything
on his phone.
He doesn't,
nothing, you know.