Sunday, July 8, 2012

Chappelle's Show - 1x01

    This show has the sketches involving a girl dancing in a car ad, a training video for "popcopy," Nat King Cole pouring champagne over a girl, the home stenographer, and the famous black white-supremacist.
    This is a solid start to the show.  Some of the bits are inspired - the girl dancing, parts of the training video.  The Home Stenographer bit feels a little like a SNL sketch to me.
    But the black white-supremacist, which takes up the last half of the episode, is really solid.  I'm not sure if there was a point in mind, or if it was simply a thought process of "wouldn't this be funny?"  The strangeness of this sequence inspires the audience to look for a racial meaning or comment, but I don't think one exists.  But because of the nature of it, it forces the audience to think.

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