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- <title>
- Aug. 02, 1993: A Brand-New Funny Dave
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Aug. 02, 1993 Big Shots:America's Kids and Their Guns
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 63
- A Brand-New Funny Dave
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- <body>
- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Overexposure to stand-up comedy could qualify as a mental-health
- hazard in this age of 100-plus TV channels. Every week cable
- venues serve up dozens of aspiring Seinfelds, many of whom think
- that jokes about trying to program VCRs are still funny. But
- America's crowded laugh track does produce an occasional fresh
- voice--like DAVE CHAPPELLE, 19, a comic more comfortable ravaging
- racism than the vagaries of consumer electronics. Sample: "Someone
- sees a black kid with a beeper, and they say, `Hey! Drug dealer!'
- Someone sees a white kid with a beeper, and they say, `Hey!
- Doogie Howser!' " Dave, who'll make his film debut this week
- in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood spoof, broached his first open-mike
- night at 14. "I didn't realize comedians had material." If he
- were to star in his own film, as he hopes to, the critics, he
- predicts, "would call me dashing."
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- </body>
- </article>
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