Booking up for here and you get to enjoy five comedians who show you their finest material and give you an insight into how their hilarious brains come up with the things that they say. While legends like Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart made their names here, new legends are born all the time as well. When you buy up for one of the hotly shows in Vegas, you will be treated to a five-fold of comedians of world class repute. It’s become a major part of Vegas history and has been part of the NYC comedy scene for over 35 years. This is a venue that gave a vital start to legendary contemporary comedians as varied as Chris Rock and Amy Schumer.
But it made me laugh that Ahmir told his date he needed to go to the studio.Head on down to Rio and you can come across the awesome Comedy Cellar. I've known these guys for years and have always respected their talent, but on that night I got to experience it up close. It's like being in the Karate Kid tournament every night. You know, comedy is surprisingly competitive. The evening would not have happened without that."Ĭhappelle on his star-lined audience: " I had no idea all those guys were going to be there. If this had happened twenty years earlier, there might have been a fight onstage.
The times that you're onstage with somebody of your level of success are very rare. People wonder why guys get really famous and stop doing stand-up. They generate the most excitement of anyone in sports, and they have the saddest endings. Comedians, if you get good, you're always out there by yourself. I was literally just enjoying the moment. So I'm used to letting my younger brothers do whatever they're gonna do. I had this real fly car at the time, a brand-new Acura, and he was like, "Man, when I get rich, I've got to get me one of these."Ĭhris Rock on the magic of having them all in attendance: "I'm a hanger backer, anyway, in life. They were like, "Oh, my God!" I told a story about one time, Dave was standing outside my club looking lost, just a little skinny kid from D.C., not famous yet. I knew it was magical, based on the reactions of the people at the Cellar. Ridiculous."īill Bellamy telling stories from yesteryear: "It was organic. And Dave's way of doing it was just levels above. We were pretty much all in the gym-basketball players getting our jump shots. We were all doing the same thing-running material we were working on. "Me and Chris were joking about how Dave was just so much better than us-the thought process behind his jokes. Below you can find some words from those masterful wordsmiths, imparting some pretty poignant metaphors on their craft (with Rock comparing Dave to Prince and Wayans comparing him to Bigfoot) and the casualties of their voyage to the show. If you happen to be in NYC over the next few weeks, make sure you cop the hottest ticket in the city for Chappelle's 8-night run at Radio City Music Hall, featuring guests like The Mighty Roots Crew, DJ Premier, Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu, and see for yourself. While Chappelle's mythology certainly doesn't need any more hype, the fellas are united in their praise for the sultan of the stage, in recounting the night that brought all of the brightest lights in the game to one tiny stage in one tiny club in the West Village. Felt like-not just a member of that outrageously fortunate crowd-but one of the other pillars of contemporary comedy that were also able to bear witness to that majestic moment.
Amy Wallace (who wrote up D'Angelo's resurgence for GQ a year or 2 back) took the time to gather some words from this gleaming roster of entertainers to get a picture of what it felt like. Not one held back in their secession that the blood, sweat and shame stained crown of comedy went to the night's surprise performer.
" The times that you're onstage with somebody of your level of success are very rare." Though Chris Rock spoke in hindsight, those words were never truer than that mind-numbing moment when he got word that the "unicorn of comedy" Dave Chappelle was going to be making an obscenely rare appearance at NYC's Comedy Cellar for a night that ultimately brought a who's who of comedic heavy hitters to a project-kitchen-sized stage. The top-tier of joke-slingers peppered the audience and in one afro pick wielding drummer's case (none other than our very own Questlove) the stage, setting the course for what was simply one of the most legendary nights of comedy in recent memory, if not the entire history of the tradition?Īside from the mad-scientist of joke-slangin', Marlon Wayans, Bill Bellamy and Kevin Hart all made appearances and simply on the whim of hearing that Chappelle was bringing the goods to a stage just outside of Washington Square Park.
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