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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / NetflixBefore Donnell Rawlings was a professional comedian, he was an amateur heckler. He would go to comedy clubs and yell back at the stage, sometimes getting even bigger laughs than the guy with the mic. So even with his Dave Chappelle-produced stand-up special A New Day dropping on Netflix this week, it’s perhaps no surprise that he recently came full circle, getting caught on camera heckling a fellow comic for going after both him and his famous frien ....
The wildest moment in the new Dave Chappelle special, “The Dreamer” (Netflix), arrives about two-thirds of the way through when the comic says he’s about to tell a long story. That’s not the unusual part. Some 36 years into a storied comedy career, Chappelle, 50, is better known for controversial yarns than carefully considered punchlines. At this point in the special, he tells the crowd in his hometown, Washington, D.C., that he is going to get a cigarette backstage, asks them to act as if he w ....
After locking up fans’ phones, Chappelle shares thoughts on a disabled politician, a transgender-friendly bar, and — once more — Israel and Palestine. ....