Dave Chappelle- Hollywood and Black Men in Dresses

I mean, I'm a conspiracy theorist to a degree.

Like, when I, I connect dots that maybe shouldn't be connected, I don't know.

But certain dots, like when I see that they put every Black man in the movies in a dress at some point in their career, I be connecting them dots like, "Why all these brothers gotta wear a dress?" That's happened to me.

I'm doing a movie with Martin.

Yeah.

The movie's going good.

So I walk in the trailer.

I'm like, "Man, this must be the wrong trailer 'cause there's a dress in here." [laughs]

[laughs]

They come in.

It's the writer comes in.

I think he's the writer.

He's like, "Dave, listen, we got this hilarious scene where Martin's sneaking out of jail, so he disguises you as a prostitute [laughs].

And you put this dress on, and it..." "Huh? What? There's a prostitute? No, I'm not doing that.

I don't feel comfortable with that.

The, that should've been in the discussion." "What? You don't feel comfortable with it? I mean, it's a hilarious bit.

All the greats have done it." "So, well, if all the greats have done it, it's kind of hackey, right? You're a writer, so why don't we just not do it? 'Cause I don't feel comfortable wearing a dress." "Oh, come on, Dave.

Listen, we, we got it all set up.

We're supposed to shoot.

Every, every minute you waste costs this much money." You know, the pressure comes in.

Huh.

He said, "Um, nah, I'm not wearing no dress, man.

I'm funnier than a dress.

Just give me something funny to say.

I don't need to wear no dress to be funny.