![]() When Chappelle’s Show premiered on Comedy Central on January 22, 2003, it didn’t just disrupt the predominantly vanilla basic cable television landscape-it became a pop culture phenomenon. Alf, my whole thing, was like, an alien comes 3 billion miles from space and gets a home with a White family… which all sounds corny now, but remember, I was 14, so it was like, wow.” But they all had race in them, one way or another. “I’d talk about stuff I saw on TV, like Alf. “Jesse Jackson was running for president, so I used to do jokes about that,” he told NPR’s Fresh Air back in 2005, alluding to the Black civil rights icon’s second run for the White House. ![]() The skinny minister’s kid was not yet ready to tackle adult-themed humor in 1987, but he wasn’t afraid to explore the dangerous minefield of race that would fuel much of the success of his genre-shifting series, Chappelle’s Show. ![]() By the time comedian Dave Chappelle was a 14-year-old prodigy turning heads in Washington, D.C.’s stand-up clubs, he was already building the foundation for what would become the most groundbreaking sketch show of the 21st century.
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