Hey there Peeps…

How are ya?

Here’s a funny story. (By the by, as I write this the Pope is on every channel of my TV…strange, it looks like a gathering of the KKK with all of their white poofy hats and white nighties! …scary.)

While we were waiting outside Olivia told that she really wanted to spy a famous person on the streets and I said ‘well that’s funny because Dave Chapelle just walked into the comedy club’ and they all gasped and said ‘No he did not!’ and I said ‘ No, I don’t really know who Dave Chapelle is’ What I did see was a black guy walk into the club with head phones on and the name that came into my head was Dave Chapelle, I can’t tell you why.

So Olivia kept talking about wanting to see someone famous and I mentioned Mr Chapelle’s name again just to wind her up.

So eventually the guy on the door told us that we could go in and he hurried us in, saying ‘be quick, Dave Chapelle’s on stage!’ Olivia nearly peed in her pants, as did the sisters, I on the other hand was just smug in my talent for spotting people I don’t even know.

I didn’t really know his story before that night, the fact that he was a very highly respected comedian and then one day at the height of his career he up and disappeared. I think disillusioned by the fame and the bullshit he vanished and was later found hiding out in Africa, until Friday night that is. Out of the blue he walked into the comedy club where he started out years ago, sat on the stage and waited for his unsuspecting audience to trickle in. And we did. He chain smoked throughout the whole show and looked like a man in recovery. He was funny, but in my eyes also very sad. He went for minutes with nothing much to say, filing through newspapers for material to use. Used some folk around him to make fun of and never really told a joke. Twas interesting.

About 30 minutes into it an old guy walks into the club and Dave says’ hey man, come in. How are you doing?’ and this ol’ guys says ‘Great! I have herpes!’ Dave say ‘wow, what an entrance, that’s weird that you just told a whole club of people that you have herpes’ and the old guy says ‘well I’m Chevy Chase!’

No Way! Even I know who Chevy Chase is. So that night we got to see the meeting of two legends I guess. Chevy got up and did a set after Dave and we all left feeling lucky. Lucky not to be that old or that confused! Not bad for $15 though.