Day: March 21, 2017

Now this is what you’ve all been waiting for. The Art of Spin, an hour-plus of hot firepower comedy from one of the all-time greats in Dave Chappelle, came out today on Netflix along with his previously unreleased 2015 special, Deep in the Heart of Texas. Chappelle recorded The Art of Spin in the days just following the deaths in late March of Garry Shandling and Phife Dawg, and he pays tribute to both of those icons at the very end of this special, recorded at the Hollywood Palladium. It’s far and away a tighter, funnier, more effective burst...

Really interesting to watch Dave Chappelle’s Deep in the Heart of Texas special on Netflix after first hearing about the taping two years ago from my close friends who attended the show, and then watching a later stop on the 2015 tour up in Montreal during his Just For Laughs record-breaking ticket-selling run. Also interesting to see Netflix package both of Chappelle’s “new” specials together as one collection of episodes. And, of course, trying to review a 2015 stand-up hour through the eyes of 2017 changes your perspective on lots of things. But the senses I come back to...