Dave Chappelle Couldn’t Hold It Any Longer
Via Vulture, I see that Dave Chappelle failed in his attempt to reclaim the Laugh Factory endurance record from Dane Cook. Cook’s record is seven hours, 34 minutes, set last year, which broke the previous record of six hours, seven minutes set by Chappelle. Chappelle’s record, naturally, broke Cook’s record of three hours, 50 minutes. And Cook, in turn, had broken Richard Pryor’s 27 year record of of two hours, 41 minutes, which at this point seems quaint. Did you follow all that?
Anyway Chappelle didn’t break the record because the man had to go to the bathroom:
But then, five hours into his routine, he walked away to go to the bathroom and was disqualified, said club owner Jamie Masada.
The audience wasn’t happy, Masada said, but he insisted that rules are rules where endurance comedy is concerned.
“There are only two rules,” Masada said Tuesday. “You have to continuously tell jokes that are funny and you can’t leave the stage, even to go to the bathroom.”
Seven hours, or even five hours, is a really, really long time to listen to someone, forget how it must be like trying to entertain people. I wish Chappelle announced when he was going to try again, I’d fly across the country to be in the audience. And make sure I’d gone to the bathroom ahead of time.
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