Dave Chappelle Reviews

Michael Keith from Chicago, Illinois

CHAPPELLE DISAPPOINTING AT THE UNITED CENTER CHICAGO 10/04/23

I actually feel Dave let us down. Opening acts went long and were offensive or just weak combined with a 45 min late start (it takes time to bag all those phones) made for some real audience fatigue. Sound system was so bad, you could barely make out what they were saying anyway. Amazingly, the sound got much better when Chapelle finally took the stage? The DJ could barely get the crowd up and cheering when Dave decided to come out to a lukewarm reception. It showed that Dave picked up on it.. Slowly eased into his set with a couple of jokes that a few folks barely chuckled at. This apparently was not enough positive feedback for Dave as he twice repeated the punchlines while tapping the microphone with his fingertips as if to imply “hey…is this thing on?”. Yes that actually happened. Twice. Dave’s attitudes quickly went downhill from there. Half the audience wasn’t even listening to him and you could hear individual conversations going on and hecklers calling out around us. I would’ve never expected this at a Dave Chappelle show. Mostly rehash bits heard many times before. Lots of pauses for Dave to wait for applause that never came or for him to slowly and methodically smoke about 12 cigarettes throughout his very short set. Dave spent at least 15 minutes on a piece about his dreams as a young man which ended with him telling the audience that their dreams were fulfilled by seeing him tonight. Give us a break Dave Chappelle. Get over yourself and write some new material that we haven’t already heard. Shortly after that little gem, which elicited sparse applause, Dave then goes into his rehearsed humanity speech for another 10 minutes and then throws the microphone up in the air to end his show…only to return with all of his opening acts on stage to tell us how wonderful they were, when they would be performing and that we should all go see them, support them and their careers. While we were all walking out, we heard were the same complaints from the audience members. Long delay to start, terrible opening acts, annoying and unnecessary DJ, Dave was too short and he he was clearly irritated….I was a big fan. Just not worth $150 for maybe 40 min of Chappelle smoking cigarettes, walking around in a circle and repeating old jokes I could have have listened to on YouTube. Never again

Wendy G from Scottsdale AZ

DISAPPOINTING

Read Maribels review. She is dead on! Although I won’t be paying money to see him again. I was so excited to see him and left just extraordinarily disappointed. I really thought after sitting thru the other comedians and that long and loud concert that I would be rewarded with comedy genius! I was mistaken.

Robert knudson from Kansas City, Missouri

WEAK

if You want to feel like a crack head who just bought 300 worth of soap pcs - spend the doe and go !! really spending to much time at home in Ohio - he hads turned into a HICK no not Huck - wasted mark twain award he has no credability to his humor - smacking his leg with the mic - for way to weak of work-

Kendy from Mentor, Ohio

THIS SHOW SUCKED

So there is no place to park around this stadium, and when we finally got there we were told no purses, so we had to go back to the car and lock up the purse. Then it took longer to lock up phones due to Daves vanity of not wanting any unflattering pictures of himself. By the time we were done with that it was 9 pm! Dave came out and was funny at first but chained smoked what smelled like reefer, and kept drinking heavily. His eyes got more and more bloodshot and he became less and less funny. Never again!! Ill watch old reruns of his show!!

Mark from Fort Lauderdale, Florida

DISAPPOINTING

Really looked forward to knocking this off my bucket list. Knocked it off but maybe several years too late. Lost his edge. Told us how high he was too many times. Had too many drinks and just kind of lost track of where he was in stories several times. Spent a lot of time laughing at himself and constantly drinking and relighting cigarettes he had put out. Seemed like he used his “Ron Desantis is a fag” line whenever he needed a laugh or affirmation people were still paying attention. Saw more people getting up to go to the bar while a headliner was performing than I ever have. That says something. Typical South Florida douchebag crowd where people thought they needed to be part of the show. His Netflix specials are fantastic. This night he was the third best comedian who performed.

E from Las Vegas, Nevada

OUT DATED AND BORING

It’s 2021. Congratulation you can stand on a stage and make fun of gay people numerous times. We live in a world where gay people can’t sand on a stage this big and make fun of another minority, we wouldn't even want to. Catch up to the times. Walked out half way through. Seen better things on Netflix. Very disappointing.

Tamara from Malibu, ca

OLD MATERIAL, AWKWARD ENDING, WASTED AND WASTED MONEY

I’ve never been so excited to go to a show in Las Vegas in my life, Dave Chapelle is a genius. The show on Thursday, July 8 was anything but, super old material, often difficult to understand and, the encore with him and Joe Rogan on stage was so awkward. His specials on Netflix are 1000 times better than what happened on that stage Thursday night. The best part about the whole show was YONDR….. it was so refreshing and wonderful to be forced to talk to the people around you. I wish everyone would make us lock up our cell phones before entering an arena ever again. I am completely disappointed by the experience I’m not sure that I would ever spend money to see him again. I really wish I could understand what happened up there and why the material was old.

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