Dave Chappelle: What’s in a Name? takes the comedian’s controversy home

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Dave Chappelle: What’s in a Name? aired on July 7, 2022.

Netflix aren’t done with Dave Chappelle just yet.

And it only seems right. Since Netflix’s hefty commissioning of several back-to-back specials from Chappelle has largely been a focal point of the controversy those specials have generated, the streaming giant sticking by him even now, in a 40-minute acceptance speech at the Duke Ellington School of Arts in Washington, D.C., the theatre building of which was slated to be named after Chappelle even considering his lingering toxicity.

I bring this up since Chappelle does too. He mentions, specifically, how the school was still willing to put his name on its building, despite his last visit there in November being characterized by a literal queue of students who couldn’t wait to tell him how bigoted he was.

So, Dave Chappelle doesn’t accept the theatre building being named after him. Instead, it’ll be called the Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression. That’ll be the legacy he leaves behind for the students there.