Dave Chappelle is notorious for not giving many on-camera interviews—in fact, his last one was way back in August 2011, with San Francisco radio station Wild 94.9—so this is kind of a big deal. While in Minneapolis to perform at the First Avenue nightclub and the Pantages Theatre, Chappelle took some time to sit one-on-one with his old friend Reg Chapman at local station WCCO-4, and talk about his comedy tour, his realtionship with the city of Minneapolis, and what really went down at his ill-fated show in Hartford. Some highlights:
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As for what went down in Hartford: Chappelle doesn't have much to say about the specifics, but he does give an interesting answer about how social media has changed the way comedians have to perform, and how the attention spans of the audiences have grown shorter in recent years—and there's also a great reference to the Denzel Washington movie Flight in there. (The performance he's referring to, if you're not familiar, is the one from this past August when he walked off stage after audience members heckled him.)
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