Forget Chappelle, watch the audience

The stand-up special was very funny and I think his brash and brazen style here is really ballsy and commendable (although I did prefer his last Netflix special - just laughed harder at it). I love that he just decided to drop a brick on the accelerator pedal and go for broke with causing offense and not caring. He's a master.

But! As entertaining and skillful as Dave Chappelle is, the true focal point of this special, for me, is the audience. One of my favourites is this Asian guy to Dave's right who is almost rolling out of his seat laughing. There's a black guy near the front who REALLY responds to Dave saying every black man needs to get a legal gun. It's also fun watching various people not react, or stop laughing every now and then. This could be random, but sometimes it's hard to think they just came under the crosshairs and they're starting to take the brunt of Chappelle's comic ammo. I recollect a woman audience-centre who starts looking a little uncomfortable at one point, as well as a white guy on Chappelle's right who looks a little unamused when Dave says that line about "it's probably the white parents" while talking about school shootings.

Terrific.