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Don’t expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon. In a new Netflix stand-up special, “8:46” that dropped for free Friday night via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans. “You watch one shooting after …
Don’t expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon.
In a new Netflix stand-up special, “8:46” that dropped for free Friday night via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans.
“You watch one shooting after another …Eric Garner in New York. The first guy that told the police, ‘I can’t breathe,’” Chappelle notes. “Eric Garner was selling loose cigarettes in Staten Island when my kid was born, my first son. My wife lived on Staten Island. It’s an awful place. She knows it. Everyone who’s ever been there knows it. Yuck to Staten Island,” Chappelle riffs, adding he’s got a lot of fans and friends there, but “it’s a very terrible place. F–k everybody on Staten Island except the Wu-Tang Clan.”
Chappelle seethed how Garner “got murdered by one police officer while five of his fellow officers watched him do it … There goes Eric Garner and then we have one after the other.”
The 27-minute set was filmed June 6 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Chappelle resides.
The special dropped the same week Pete Davidson released his revealing comedy, “The King of Staten Island.”
The “SNL” star has had his own issues with his hometown borough. In a 2016 interview with Uproxx, Davidson said of his fellow Islanders, “F–k them. They all suck. They have nothing to do with me or my success. It’s a terrible borough, filled with terrible people. A f–king tidal wave could take out Staten Island, and I wouldn’t even move in my sleep. In fact, I would sleep better. F–k Staten Island.”
