Dave Chappelle is back to his angry ways, voicing his distaste for a crowd in Connecticut and calling them a bunch of “white people crackers.”
Chappelle spoke before a crowd in Chicago on Tuesday, rehashing a recent show in Hartford, Conn., where he was heckled by audience members and angrily walked out of the performance. The comedian told the Windy City audience the Hartford spectators were a bunch of “young, white alcoholics” and said he hoped a nuclear bomb landed on the city.
“I don’t want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God I hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut,” Chappelle said. “That crowd was evil. … An arena full of suburban torturers. Young, white alcoholics.”
He then continued, saying the crowd’s antics — which prompted him to cease joke-telling and read passages from a book instead — almost caused him to pull a “reverse Kramer.” Chappelle referenced an incident in which Seinfeld alum Michael Richards had a meltdown during a performance at the Laugh Factory and fired racial slurs at the audience.
“I wanted to pull a reverse Kramer and call them all crackers or something crazy like that,” Chappelle said. “I know that s**t’ll be on YouTube. ‘Funnyman Dave Chappelle calls a room full of white people crackers.’ Couldn’t do that. I felt bad when Kramer did that s**t to us.”
The comedian isn’t a stranger to angry rants. Chappelle walked out on a Sacramento show in 2004 after an audience member wouldn’t “shut up and listen.”
