When
it comes to comedians, I don’t have the slightest problem picking my favorite.
Dave Chappelle has shown me a side of comedy that doesn’t need to be fully
based on inappropriate jokes in order to get people to laugh. I love Dave
Chappelle’s work because not only does he make his audience laugh, but he also
wants them to think beyond the surface. He wants them to understand his
underlying message. Immanuel Kant, a German Philosopher, described humor as
"...the talent of being able to put oneself at will into a certain frame
of mind in which everything is judged in unusual (even opposite) ways, yet in
accordance with particular principles of reason that characterize this frame of
mind". I believe that Dave Chappelle possess this talent by getting
his audience to think about political and social issues using his comedy. While
he still gets a laugh out of everyone, the sketches he does will stick with
people and they could possibly have been shown a new view by watching his
comedy. In his sketch titled “Black Bush”, he combines president Bush with a stereotypical
African-American. Chappelle does an excellent job at being absurd in this sketch
by highlighting what many Americans were thinking, as well as other countries,
when Bush wanted to go to war with Iraq. Chappelle made Black Bush incongruous by
making him vulgar and African American. At this time there had yet to be a
black president, let alone a vulgar one, so this was not congruent with how
Americans envisioned their presidents. With that being said, I feel that Dave
Chappelle does a great job using humor.
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