Dave Chappelle

Tech billionaire Elon Musk did not receive a warm welcome from the audience at comedian Dave Chappelle's Bay Area performance.

With Chappelle’s encouragement, Musk shouted into the mic one of the most famous lines from the cult classic “The Chappelle Show.” Yu wrote that about 80 percent of the crowd booed, a number that Musk did not appear to agree with in separate tweets Monday morning. Amen.” He then thanked the city of San Francisco and wished the crowd good night. As the heckling showed no signs of stopping, Chappelle appeared ready to pull the plug on whatever socio-comedic experiment was failing onstage. In a speech on Netflix that was filmed at the school, Chappelle staunchly defended his “freedom of artistic expression.” “Boo all you want,” continued Chappelle, who added that he wanted to go to Mars with Musk. But that was clearly no bother to Chappelle as he hosted the embattled site owner. He laid off thousands of employees and issued an ultimatum to those remaining, requiring that they commit to a “hardcore” Twitter or quit. “Weren’t expecting this, were you?” Musk asked over the din of disapproval. On Sunday, Chappelle said the Hundreds refused to sign the pledge, leaving Twitter a fraction of the size it was two months ago. It’s hard to tell what the goal was for Elon Musk’s doomed cameo alongside Dave Chappelle at the comedian’s San Francisco tour stop on Sunday.

While attempts to cancel Dave Chappelle were largely unsuccessful, the controversy has highlighted the larger issue of freedom of expression and who exactly ...

In his 40-minute acceptance speech, chronicled in “What’s in a Name?,” Chappelle responded to the controversy and defended his right to free speech. And that’s why I think Dave Chappelle’s stance on comedy is such a good thing for the business because it lets you know some people will stand on what they believe for the sake of art. “You say anything, ‘Oh, you’re gonna be canceled.’ Is it fair for one joke that rubs you the wrong way to just destroy or [ruin a career] in comedy? “He has shown previously in his work, in his life, that there is no amount of money that will make him [compromise his beliefs],” agreed comedian Earthquake. “You don’t have too many people that have had a Muhammad Ali moment in their life,” said Rawlings. It takes a strong person to stand out in the cold like that.” “Especially with stand-up, if you have a loyal fan base, it’s hard for anyone to stop you from putting your name on a marquee,” said Rawlings. He has also gone on to perform multiple sold-out stand-up shows (including the infamous Hollywood Bowl show where he was [tackled onstage](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-05-04/dave-chappelle-tackled-what-happened-hollywood-bowl)) and is co-headlining a West Coast stand-up tour with Chris Rock this month. Even in a stadium full of jeers, the comedian was able to make the crowd’s audible rage break long enough to turn the tide to laughter. [staged a walkout](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-10-13/netflix-dave-chappelle-special-transgender-employee-walkout) in protest. When social media outrage — typically referred to as “cancel culture” — is easy to spark, jokes told onstage can spur calls for consequences similar to those for celebrities accused of a crime. The big difference today is that the threat of arrest doesn’t exist.”

Elon Musk was booed on stage for several minutes at a comedy show in San Francisco on Sunday after spending the weekend attacking former Twitter Inc.

The Twitter CEO and "world's richest man" gets a cold reception onstage with comedian Dave Chappelle, with loud booing heard echoing around San Francisco's ...

Earlier in the year, Chappelle was tackled by an audience member at a performance. That's the sound of pending civil unrest." into the microphone before a loud air horn sounded.

He invited Musk onstage. The billionaire obliged, wearing an “I Love Twitter” T-shirt. Loud boos filled the arena – along with some cheers, too. Advertisement.

He stayed onstage and shook hands with many of the performers. Chappelle asked Musk to repeat Rawlings’ catchphrase from their classic show – “I’m rich b----” Rawlings went first, and then Musk complied. It was a rather uncomfortable appearance for Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, at Chappelle’s show with Chris Rock on Sunday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

Elon Musk was drowned out by boos when he joined Dave Chappelle onstage at a gig in San Francisco — and laughed off the snub Monday as the cries of ...

“You hear that sound, Elon? “You n — ers can boo all you want — this n — er gave me a jet pack last Christmas,” the comedian quipped, getting a rare burst of laughter from the time Musk was onstage. “Look, motherf – kers — this n — er isn’t even tryna die on Earth,” Chappelle joked of Musk and his dreams of moving people to Mars. Elon Musk was drowned out by boos when he joined Dave Chappelle onstage at a gig in San Francisco — and laughed off the snub Monday as the cries of “unhinged leftists” he’d recently “offended.” Wearing an “I love Twitter” T-shirt, Musk then held his hands up in apparent confusion as Chappelle noted the loud “cheers and boos.” The tech billionaire joked that his surprise appearance was drowned out by the cries of “unhinged leftists” he’d recently “offended.”

Taking to the comments section of Live Nation Australia's Instagram page, Adelaide locals raged at being left out 'once again'

He doesn't have any dates booked in South Australia. [Melbourne](/news/melbourne/index.html) and [Brisbane](/news/brisbane/index.html) in February 2023. [Dave Chappelle](/tvshowbiz/dave-chappelle/index.html) has announced he will tour Australia next year, but some fans are annoyed that he won't be performing in [Adelaide](/news/adelaide/index.html).

He will play Auckland's Spark Arena on February 18 before heading to Christchurch on February 21. Tickets for the shows will go on sale on Friday, December 16.

Musk was met with a chorus of boos, and some cheers, after being invited onstage by Chappelle at the end of his stand-up show.

Chappelle has dismissed his critics, [accusing them](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59046022) of trying to “cancel” him. Musk has been at the center of several major controversies, with the biggest ones revolving around his actions after taking over ownership of the social media platform Twitter. . . The segment then ended with a callback to a segment from Chappelle’s Show as the comedian made Musk shout, “I’m rich, bitch!” The boos got louder as Musk waved at the audience and raised both his hands, prompting Chappelle to quip that some of the people recently fired from Twitter by Musk may be in the audience. According to clips of the event shared by attendees on social media, Chappelle invited Musk onstage as he asked the crowd to “make some noise for the richest man in the world,” a request that was first met with a mixed reaction.

Dave Chappelle show attendees react to the comedian bringing special guest Elon Musk out to a wave of boos at the Chase Center in San Francisco.

During the few minutes that he was on stage, Musk deferred to Chappelle for instruction on how to handle the negative reactions, asking: “What should I say?” His friend’s advice? “Understandably, because of who Musk is as a person and me being from the Bay Area, who has family that work at Tesla in Fremont, where the racial discrimination suit is taking place, his appearance made me dissatisfied,” Douglas explained. But Musk’s awkward attempt at making the best out of an undeniably embarrassing situation apparently didn’t do much to win much of the rest of the crowd over. It was like the Chase Center turned into the Apollo.” Online, descriptions of the crowd reaction heavily veered toward a brutal evisceration by way of booing, but some fans who were present found it a little more difficult to get a clear read on the atmosphere of the arena. “As for the boos, let’s just say it outweighed the cheers.

The Twitter owner struggled to get a word in as the crowd booed continuously for close to 10 minutes.

After an eight-year hiatus, award-winning American comedian Dave Chappelle is returning to Perth with his brand new stand-up comedy show.

Dave Chappelle tours Australia February 2023 with headline shows in Perth, Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Dave recently hosted SNL for a third time. The 2019 recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Chappelle will headline shows in Perth, Sydney, Wollongong, Melbourne and Brisbane in February. Always topical and recently polarising, Chappelle remains a force of modern comedy being one of the most recognisable names in the game.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been met with a loud wave of boos after being called on stage by Dave Chappelle at a San Francisco show.

Writer James Yu, who was in the San Francisco audience, had a different story. As the boos continued, the comedian encouraged Musk to scream his signature Chappelle Show catchphrase “I’m rich b—h!”. The audience noise was “technically … He appears to expect applause but the reality of his popularity, or lack thereof, with the assembled audience quickly sets in. By Monday, the world was presented with a more familiar Mr Musk, as he took to Twitter to offer his version. Chappelle was on stage at the city’s Chase Centre on Sunday (local time), mic in hand, when he asked the crowd to “make some noise for the richest man in the world”.