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“Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones”
https://www.netflix.com/title/81140577

I started watching The Dark Crystal. Ah the nostalgia feels.

pmward wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:19 pm I started watching The Dark Crystal. Ah the nostalgia feels.

Ha! I started that earlier tonight. Wasn’t in the mood, but I want to get back to it. I remember seeing the ‘82 film in the theater.

I just watched the Chapelle Netflix special the other day!

...I ended up going through his other specials too. Great work, though I still like Iliza Shlesinger a bit more.

Hmm, I’ll have to check that person out.

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:10 pm Hmm, I’ll have to check that person out.

She is utterly hilarious, and as far as stand up comedians are concerned, is my current favourite.

Outside of comedy though? She's made some comments during interviews (she has several Joe Rogan podcast episodes) that have made me think she's a little uncouth.

Either way, I enjoy her work. Her War Paint special on Netflix is my fav.

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:55 am “Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones”
https://www.netflix.com/title/81140577

Definitely on my list.

lol that Chapelle set is hilarious...

My favourite joke is when he tells the story of a vagrant that offers to perform unspeakables on him for five dollars.

He retches in total disgust and just says..... "Two."

Dave looks buff these days. Looks like he also gave up mooncakes and started hitting the gym.

Did he get fat? He was lean on Chappelle's Show.

BTW, Justified is a good show (it's on Prime, not Netflix).

If you guys haven't seen the Sarah Silverman special A Speck of Dust you should. It's also excellent.

Holy fuck, guys.

That Chappelle standup is goddamn hilarious.



5x

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2019 8:13 pm Holy fuck, guys.

That Chappelle standup is goddamn hilarious.



5x

YES! One of my absolute favourites of all time at this point!!

The Michael Jackson bits were the best.

I know this thread is the Chappelle ‘Sticks and Stones’ thread — it’s the gift that keeps on giving — but i have to add:

I thought of it again over the weekend when I saw the news about Jussie Smollet, or should I say Joussí Smoliet ;-) about how a judge in Chicago refuses to dismiss the lawsuit, because $100K was spent investigating J.S.’s non-crime.

Unbelievable is unbelievably good.

Agree!

I started watching it with knowing absolutely nothing about it.

I started watching it around 10:30 PM, expecting to watch just the first episode.

I could not tear myself away from it and watched EVERY episode until 5 AM! I passed it on to a few other people, some who had already seen it and some who then watched it. All agreed it was tremendous.

Now I'm in the middle of watching Breaking Bad for the first time ever. In season 2.

I LOVED Nikita!

Vinny

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:34 pm Unbelievable is unbelievably good.

Ah, you’re just starting Breaking Bad. I’m jealous. You’re in for a treat.

A friend who urged me to watch it when it first came out revealed to me yesterday that he re-watches it EVERY baseball off season!

It's quite good but I'd still rate several other TV series above it or equal to it:

24

The Killing

Unbelievable

Bosch

Nikita

Vinny

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:36 pm Ah, you’re just starting Breaking Bad. I’m jealous. You’re in for a treat.

The Killing is really good. I watched the original version.

Bosch- I’m looking forward to it, but I’m working my way through the novels, first. I do like the actor, Titus Welliver, whom I mainly know as the smoke monster from ‘Lost’.

I guess I watched the first 4-5 seasons of 24. Good, but not as original as BB.

dualstow wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:36 pm Ah, you’re just starting Breaking Bad. I’m jealous. You’re in for a treat.

Watched El Camino last night and thought it was pretty good. Obviously wait until after BB before watching if you already haven't (you will probably be confused by the flashbacks if you don't). Like Better Call Saul it's the continuation of the story but featuring Jesse Pinkman's aftermath. Only one episode this time which was probably a good idea.

Which is the original version of The Killing? The one I watched came out on Netflix in 2017?

24 was gripping. The best TV series I have EVER seen. That kept me up until 3 AM many nights. Quite difficult to ever stop watching it. I don't have the similar problem turning off Breaking Bad. But I am looking forward to starting to watch it again in a short while.

Vinny

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:03 pm The Killing is really good. I watched the original version.

Bosch- I’m looking forward to it, but I’m working my way through the novels, first. I do like the actor, Titus Welliver, whom I mainly know as the smoke monster from ‘Lost’.

I guess I watched the first 4-5 seasons of 24. Good, but not as original as BB.

jacksonm2 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:21 pm Watched El Camino last night and thought it was pretty good. Obviously wait until after BB before watching if you already haven't (you will probably be confused by the flashbacks if you don't). Like Better Call Saul it's the continuation of the story but featuring Jesse Pinkman's aftermath. Only one episode this time which was probably a good idea.

I also watched El Camino last night. Agreed, it was pretty good. Not quite in the same league as the best episodes of BB, but still very entertaining with some good action, tense moments, and a few surprising moments.

vnatale wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2019 6:51 pm Which is the original version of The Killing? The one I watched came out on Netflix in 2017?

It’s based on a Danish show. Here, sentence 1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killi ... TV_series)
However, I’m starting to wonder if I didn’t just notice all the Scandinavian names, suspect that it was a remake, look up the original show, and then eventually develop a false memory that I’d seen the original show. I might have downloaded the first episode or something. I have watched some Scandinavian crime shows with subtitles, both on Netflix and downloaded, and a lot of it is a blur.

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:05 pm
YES! One of my absolute favourites of all time at this point!!

The Michael Jackson bits were the best.

I thought the abortion part was the best. Mostly because he made my "notional abortion" idea funny. I remember talking with some guys at the gym about it, and one of them who just had a kid was kinda horrified

Watched the whole season of "Diagnosis" last night. Had to get past the fact that it was produced by the New York Times but I thought it was about as good as "reality TV" gets. It's basically a non-fiction version of "House" and the female doctor who wrote for the Times was actually a consultant on that show.

All 7 episodes were moving and fascinating but if I had to recommend only one it would be the one about the Iraq war veteran looking for a reason why inflammation was slowly destroying his brain and taking all of his memories with it. The most amazing part of the story was how long it took to associate his condition with with his service in Iraq when, in fact, it is a condition common to approximately 1/3 of all Iraq war veterans.