Dave Chappelle

The film follows Chappelle during the summer of 2004, ending on September 18, 2004, when he threw a block party on the corner of Quincy Street and Downing Street in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The film features nearby sites, including the Broken Angel House in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn as well as areas in Fort Greene, Brooklyn and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The film was produced before Chappelle's highly publicized decision to walk away from a $50 million deal to continue his hit Chappelle's Show, and gained prominence after the announcement. Chappelle invited several hip hop and neo-soul musical artists to perform at the party, including Kanye West, Mos Def, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, and The Roots along with The Central State University Marching Band. Lauryn Hill was also scheduled to perform at the party, but since Columbia Records refused to release her songs for use in the production, she decided instead to reunite The Fugees for the occasion. In addition, Chappelle performed comedy monologues and sketches in between the musical acts.

Chappelle gets real about racially charged run-ins, celebrity scandals and fatherly dilemmas in a searing stand-up set at Austin's Moody Theater.

At his first LA show in 10 years, Chappell charges straight into the fire with bits on Bill Cosby, O.J. Simpson and his own brushes with controversy.

Behind the scenes and Q&A from the audience following the Sticks and Stones special.

Behind the scenes and Q&A from the audience following the Sticks and Stones special.

An all-star lineup of entertainers salute and celebrate the career achievements of comedian Dave Chappelle, the recipient of the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The event was held at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. and aired January 7, 2020 on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The 27-minute monologue is entitled "8:46," which is the amount of time former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on Floyd's neck before he died. "This man kneeled on a man's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that?!" Chappelle says during his standup. "This kid thought he was going to die, he knew he was going to die. He called for his dead mother." Chappelle noted that eerily enough "8:46" is also the time of day when the comedian was born.

What feels like an impromptu set, casually thrown up on Instagram in the middle of the week, is really an eighteen-minute and twenty-eight-second declaration of war against the corporations he feels have wronged him.