US comedian and Dave Chappelle mentor Tony Woods celebrates 35 years on stage at the Dubai Comedy Festival
SHARE It is the kind of shout-out that can change a career – even if it turns 35 years old this week. This is what comic Tony Woods experienced after comedian Dave Chappelle singled him out for praise when accepting the 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humour. Chappelle recalled watching Woods perform in small comedy clubs in Washington DC three decades ago and finding his career role model. It was an experience described as similar to jazz maestro Miles Davis seeing his own heroes, the trumpeters Dizzie Gillespie and Donald Byrd in intimate New York venues in the 1940s. "Tony is my Dizzi...