- Dave was like, "Y'all wanna go bowling?"
And we were like,
"Ain't no bowling alley open on Christmas, this late,
like what you talking about?"
And he started laughing and he said,
"Do you realize I'm Dave Chappelle?"
(audience laughs)
Hi y'all,
my name is Tiffany Haddish.
This is where you guys should applaud and go crazy.
I'll wait.
(audience applauds)
Dave, I see why you wear these.
They are so comfortable.
Look at this room y'all,
look at this room.
Look at the people we got here at this party.
(audience applauds)
Comedians, actors and musicians are all here for one man.
We're all here because Dave brings people together in a way
that maybe no one else in the world can.
I met Dave over 20 years ago,
and we've been friends ever since.
Dave you have always been my mentor, my big brother,
and every time I step on stage, every time I think of you,
cause I've always wanna make you proud
cause you the goat.
You know, you the greatest.
(audience applauds)
What I love about Dave is his spontaneity.
My favorite story with Dave was on Christmas,
one year after I finished feeding the homeless
at the Laugh Factory.
I do that every year
because I never forget where I came from.
Not the Laugh Factory, homeless, homeless.
(audience applauds)
Dave called me to meet them for drinks,
and when I arrived,
I seen him there with Marlon Wayans and I was like,
what are y'all fathers doing here on Christmas?
Shouldn't y'all be with y'all kids?
And Dave said,
who are you?
(mumbles) Bitch have a drink.
(audience laughs)
So we laughed and joked till about 1:00 a.m.
and Dave was like,
y'all wanna go bowling?
And we were like,
ain't no bowling alley open on Christmas, this late,
like what you talking about?
And he started laughing, he said,
do you realize I'm Dave Chappelle?
(audience laughs)
He made a phone call and then we jumped in his SUV
and then we started going up this hill,
and then we pulled up to these huge gates.
I mean, huge.
I was like,
are we fixing to be bowling at Jurassic Park?
We get out the car, go to the door,
and guess who opened the door?
Guess who opened it?
I said guess bitch, guess.
(audience laughs)
Eddie Murphy opened the door.
We was at Eddie Murphy's house.
We was at Eddie Murphy's house
and I was like...
And Dave was like,
calm down, calm your ass down before we get kicked out,
and I was like,
oh my God, I can't believe this,
Axel Foley got a bowling alley.
(audience laughs)
We must've talked and laugh and shared stories for hours,
and that's the kind of guy Dave is,
just spontaneous and he's magical,
and he's a horrible bowler.
(audience laughs)
- I forget I'm famous sometimes.
My dudes pulling next to me like,
what's up dude?
You're our boy.
Oh yeah, thanks.
(audience laughs)
So I be known man.
My friends telling me to act more famous.
All my friends got money, super famous.
All the comedians around, Dave Chappelle, great comic.
I've been around Chris, Rodney like,
Kevin Hart was my roommate before.
Yes, yes.
Every morning he'd wake up like,
I'm gonna make it.
I'm like nigga go make that breakfast.
(audience laughs)
And get these little ass Air Force Ones out of here.
Whose shoes this little?
He used to hate the little shoe joke.
Get the little shoes out of here.
One time he got in the car
and I had his shoes hanging from the rear-view mirror.
They're baby shoes, like,
Kevin, look at your shoes.
Get them down, get them down.
I don't know, man,
Trying to figure out my famous.
Who am I?
Cause I knew I've been in shit, but people keep asking me,
what are you going to be in next?
Motherfucker this?
(audience laughs)
I don't know what's next?
Stop asking actors what's next.
I don't know how to be in some shit.
I know I've been in some shit cause I Googled me.
No, you what?
Go to hell Google.
I Googled me and they said I was 48 years old.
Who the fuck changed my age?
(audience laughs)
That's the worst thing you could do to somebody in Hollywood
is make them older.
I ain't even know what happened,
till I went to audition
and Morgan Freeman was there.
(audience laughs)
We're here for the same part, nigga.
Stop trying to make me an uncle when I'm still a cousin.
(audience laughs)
But I've been in some shit, I've traveled,
I've done things.
I was in Africa, I got booked in Africa, Nigeria.
They paid me so much money, I thought they purchased me.
(audience laughs)
I told my baby, I was like,
daddy might not be back.
(audience laughs)
They gave me racks motherfucker.
I just imagine me being there and shit.
In some cage like,
"Come look at my new DeRay".
(audience laughs)
There is my lion, there is my zebra
and there is my DeRay.
(audience laughs)
DeRay tell a joke?
(audience laughs)
Come on, tell a joke.
He is mad, we have not fed him today.
Tell a joke.
(audience laughs)
But I've done shit.
I'm happy about the little movies I did though.
I'm happy.
A lot of movies.
I did 30 fucking movies.
(audience applauds)
Now take it I was only in them bitches about three minutes,
but I've been in them bitches,
collectively as a whole film.
Fuck all y'all, how about that shit, right now?
I was in 'The Fog'.
I was in a horror movie.
How about that?
No, not only that, I'm black history.
I was a black dude in a horror movie and I survived, mama.
(audience applauds)
Now what?
And I was on a boat.
Niggas don't get on boats.
Niggas go on cruise ships,
niggas get on motherfuckin yachts for a video,
front the hell off,
but niggas don't get on boats.
The only time niggas get on boats is like this,
man I'm broke as hell.
Nigga I'm in the same boat.
That's the only time.
(audience laughs)
Niggas get in boats.
I'm black history.
- I remember Dave and I went to McDonald's between shows
and we talked about comedy and his future.
What his future plans were gonna be,
and I said,
come to New York City,
and after he graduated high school,
he did, and he came to New York
and we worked at the same comedy club,
the Boston Comedy Club.
(audience applauds)
I know it's a little confusing,
it was a club in New York City,
called the Boston Comedy Club.
Look, I don't come up with the names, coke heads do.
(audience laughs)
But in New York, Dave was immediately beloved
by the standup comedy community,
and I remember he got a part in that Mel Brook's movie,
'Robin Hood: Men in Tights', and we were all like,
Dave made it.
- Who's the man.
Who's the man.
- He came back from LA
and he got right on stage to talk about his trip out West
and how he finally went to Compton
after hearing so much about it,
and he was like stunned to see that people there had yards.
(audience laughs)
All the Lore of Compton
and people were like mowing their lawns.
(audience laughs)
And of course they were,
but there was just like something about
that tiny little detail,
and that's what he does.
He lets himself be surprised by what he learns,
and then he takes us with him as he, you know,
looks at it from every angle, you know,
angles that most of us don't even see.
- Isn't it weird,
how this disease that just starts in 1980
and it doesn't kill anybody but niggas, fags and junkies.
Isn't that a fucking amazing coincidence
that this disease hates everybody
that old white people hate?
(audience laughs)
I think either God is white
or the government hid that shit in disco balls.
(audience laughs)
- He's always thinking about stuff,
he's examining everything,
and he really like,
he gets in his own world.
- Now this is when I knew I was in a bad neighborhood.
You only see this in the worst neighborhoods.
Remember it's three o'clock in the morning.
It's three o'clock in the morning.
I look out the window,
there was a fuckin baby standing on the corner.
(audience laughs)
And the baby didn't even look scared,
it was just standing there.
(audience laughs)
I mean, it made me sad, it made me sad really
cause I wanted to help the baby.
I don't trust you either, I'm sorry, click!
Click! (audience laughs)
- I remember we were together in Vancouver
and he came over to smoke a joint
and that's exactly what he did,
he came over...
(audience laughs)
And he smoked a joint.
The whole thing.
(audience laughs)
Like by himself.
(audience laughs)
While pontificating about everything
that's wrong with the world.
I'll tell you what's wrong with the world,
a lack of sharing.
(audience laughs)
I think it's puff, puff, pass,
not puff, puff, puff, puff.
(audience laughs)
Dave, can you believe this?
You're getting the freaking Mark Twain Prize.
(audience applauds)
You deserve it.
It's the right thing.
It's actually perfect
that you're getting the Mark Twain Prize
because you both love using the N-word in your masterpieces.
(audience laughs)
- How is it that I can say the word nigger with impunity,
but I can't say the word faggot?
(audience laughs)
And she said,
because David, you are not gay.
I said,
well, Renee,
I'm not a nigger either.
(audience laughs)
(upbeat music)