Reality Tv Home Mercer University 846 Dave Chapp

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For this week, use the video below to guide you as you begin creating your database. Your database needs to be 500 words this week.

continue from paper 1 Race/Manwood

How do race & manhood interact in Dave Chappelle’s 8:46 to shape meaning?

I chose Dave Chappelle as my comedian because I have always found him humorous. I love watching his skits on the Chappelle show. Another reason I chose Chappelle is that his comedy sketches often had inventive ideas and put a new spin on issues. One of my favorite sketches involved musical instruments. Chappelle and John Mayer played the guitar, drums, and piano in front of different racial crowds and compared their reactions to each instrument. I wholeheartedly enjoy Chappelle’s insight, inventiveness, and his ability to take an idea and reinterpret in a way that makes the audience ponder. It is this exact cleverness, perception, and forward-thinking that made me choose Dave Chappelle as the comedian for my topic.

I chose Dave Chappelle’s comedy special 8:46 seconds because it is one of his newer works. Before watching it, I only knew that the 8:4 stood for the time of George Floyd’s death. I chose the theme of race for my topic because Chappelle often discussed this in his comedy show, The Chappelle Show. Skits that discussed race included Prince, Clayton Bigsby the world’s only Black White Supremacist, and of Chad trying to live in “reality tv home”. Further, the theme of race was chosen because of its relevancy in contemporary society with racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement. The topic of manhood was chosen because I am not familiar with Dave Chappelle utilizing the theme as much. Also, I am personally not as familiar with this topic, making it challenging for me. In all, Dave Chappelle has always interested me as a comedian due to his wittiness. I am familiar with his earlier sketches that often discussed the theme of race and the subject interested me because of current events. I am not as familiar with the subject of manhood allowing me to learn. Last, Chappelle’s new comedy special 8:48 discussed George Floyd which intrigued me.