While Dave Chappelle's '8:46' is peppered with a few funny moments, he spends most of the set offering serious reflections on police brutality, the killing of George Floyd, and how the news media covers these stories
Netflix dropped a big surprise in the middle of the night: a 27-minute clip of Dave Chappelle performing just six days ago on June 6 where he currently lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The title of the set, 8:46, is a reference to the amount of time Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck, which led to Floyd’s murder and sparked the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests around the country.
While 8:46 is peppered with a few funny moments, Chappelle spends most of the set offering serious reflections on police brutality, the killing of Floyd, and how the news media covers these stories. “Has anyone ever listened to me do comedy? Have I not ever said anything about these things before?” Chappelle says while referencing a CNN segment by Don Lemon asking why celebrities, including Chappelle, weren’t commenting on the Floyd news.
Later in the set, Chappelle says that when he hosted SNL in 2016, there was one thing he said in his opening monologue that he “got completely wrong.” He had commented on how few black people were invited to the White House throughout its history, with Frederick Douglass as the first-ever and that it didn’t happen again until Roosevelt was president. “But that was wrong.
The show comes with a disclaimer under the video from Dave — “Normally I wouldn’t show you something so unrefined, I hope you understand” — as well as a link to donate to the Equal Justice Initiative.
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