Arts & Entertainment Video: Elon Musk Joins Dave Chappelle On Stage At SF Show, Gets Booed Lustily The Twitter and Tesla CEO bizarrely joined standup comic Dave Chappelle on stage at the Chase Center Sunday night to a loud chorus of boos, yet the “free speech absolutist” Musk has apparently removed the videos of this from Twitter.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Gets Grumpy About Napa Noise Ordinance, Insists On Going Past Curfew Twice at Blue Note Jazz Fest Dave Chappelle did his ornery best to get everyone back on stage and to keep the party going past 10 p.m. on Sunday night, during the closing moments of the inaugural Napa Valley iteration of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, in spite of a local noise ordinance.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Series of North Bay Gigs This Week, LGBTQ Activists May Protest Controversy-courting comedian Dave Chappelle is doing more shows in the Bay Area this week, and hosting three consecutive nights of events at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in Napa, despite being persona non grata with much of the LGBTQ community at this point.
Business & Tech Netflix Tells Employees They Can Seek Other Jobs If They Object to Content Eight months after a kerfuffle over a Dave Chappelle special and some other subsequent internal conflicts, Netflix took a stand and told its employees last week that they can bugger right off if they have personal objections to content being hosted on the streaming platform.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Tackled By Armed Man During L.A. Show, Makes Trans Joke Afterward Chappelle was talking onstage Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl about how he needs extra security now that the LGBTQ community despises him. And then a guy rushed the stage in an apparent attempt to physically assault or harm him.
Business & Tech Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.
Business & Tech Chappelle Controversy Continues Roiling Netflix as Black Trans Employee Gets Fired for Alleged Data Leak Dave Chappelle's exhausting, transphobic, grievance-filled rant of a comedy special continues to be a problem for Netflix as news came out late last week that the Los Gatos-based company had fired a Black trans employee who was helping the organize a walkout protest related to the special.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Joins Rally At City Hall To Save The Punch Line Comedy Club From Incoming Tenant, Google Supervisor Aaron Peskin, along with comics W. Kamau Bell, Dave Chappelle, and Nato Green, spoke out in favor of City Hall's potential moves to block the Punch Line's landlord from renting to Google instead.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle And John Mayer Perform At The Fillmore This Friday And Saturday Dave Chappelle and John Mayer, entertainers and friends both known to be occasionally offensive, present a surprise set of two performances this weekend: "Chappelle & John Mayer: Controlled Danger," as Live Nation revealed
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Doing Three Sold Out, Cellphone-Free Shows At The Chapel This Week Just like most of you, probably, we're just now getting word that Dave Chappelle announced a couple of surprise shows as he often does these days Tuesday night at The Chapel in SF
Arts & Entertainment Surprise, Again! Dave Chappelle Adds Second Suprise SF Show This Saturday Comedian Dave Chappelle's typically bi-annual "surprise shows" are a little like that surprise party in the office on your birthday. Maybe it's gonna be on Thursday, maybe it's gonna be on Friday, but
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Returns To The Independent Monday Night [Update: Instantly Sold-Out!] Like clockwork, noted comedian Dave Chappelle has announced his latest bi-annual "surprise" shows at the Independent on Monday, March 25th. And tickets go on sale, like right this second. As is Chappelle tradition
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Announces Latest Biannual 'Surprise' Shows At The Independent, July 3rd [Update] In what has become something of a ritual for the borderline reclusive, Bay Area-loving comedian, Dave Chappelle just announced two pre-Fourth of July shows at the Independent on Divisadero. Tickets for Tuesday night's
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Pops Up Again, Doing Six Shows At The Independent Next Week Dave Chappelle, who apparently has completely forgone scheduling anything more than a week in advance at this point, has just announced four six shows at The Independent on Divisadero next Tuesday and Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chapelle Gives First Interview in Five Years to 94.9FM, Says Why He Loves the Bay Area Dave Chapelle gave his first interview in five years last week to morning radio hosts Rico, JV, and Selena on Wild 94.9 here in S.F. (This was just before he awkwardly
Arts & Entertainment Just Announced: Dave Chappelle at Yoshi's Oakland This Sunday Comedian Dave Chappelle just announced that he will perform two shows at Yoshi's Oakland on Sunday, August 14. Tickets for this show are available only through Eventbrite, and "ticket buyers who are dining
Arts & Entertainment Tonight at Cobbs: Dave Chappelle Keeps on Tickin' A friend of SFist spotted a pretty haggard-looking Dave Chappelle in the FiDi last week sporting bloodshot eyes that screamed, "Don't you dare talk to me." Hopefully Chappelle got his rest over the
Arts & Entertainment Two More Dave Chappelle Shows Announced for Tonight at the Independent As he's been doing a lot lately, Dave Chappelle, the comedic genius behind every buzzphrase you hated so much by the end of 2006, has just announced two more last-minute shows tonight at
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Impromptu Dave Chappelle At Cobbs On Monday Night Luckily for the Bay Area, Dave Chappelle loves to hang out here for prolonged periods of time and ends up performing impromptu shows while he's here. After performing two sets of sold-out, last-minute
Arts & Entertainment Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle's Surprise Oakland Show, A Recap So, news went out via Twitter yesterday around 5 p.m. that Lauryn Hill and Dave Chappelle were going to do an impromptu surprise show at The New Parish in Oakland, after Lauryn's
Arts & Entertainment Tickets On Sale For Last-Minute Dave Chappelle Performances Tomorrow Night At Cobb's Cobb's Comedy Club just announced a couple of last-minute Dave Chappelle performances for tomorrow night. (He's also there tonight, but the shows sold out fast.) Tickets were still available as of this posting,
Arts & Entertainment Waitlist for Dave Chappelle Oakland Show Still Open Just as soon as it was announced, Dave Chappelle's two shows tonight at The New Parish in Oakland sold out. Alas. However, if you want to get on the waitlist for the 11pm
SF News Woman Tells Off Dave Chappelle, He Responds By Calling Her "Titties" "Real" Oh dear. From the editor's inxbox comes this heated missive over today's 'Photo du Jour' featuring gifted comedian Dave Chappelle. Black Betty writes: I can't believe you have that bigot's picture on your
misc Dave Chappelle, Bygone CompUSA Spotted On Market Street An SFist reader spotted comedian Dave Chappelle walking on Market Street the other day, interrupted his privacy, and snapped up the photo at left. (Thanks, Flickr user 3dollarbilly!) What he also caught was
Arts & Entertainment Chappelle Sightings Continue I just heard from a bunch of my co-workers that they saw Dave at the Sportsclub/LA gym last night around 5:00. He wasn't really working out, just kind of checking out
