Killing Them Softly
Why Are You Laughing?
Blind Mike Project
5 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Today Mike and Craig look back at a special that is in the conversation of "Greatest of all Time," Dave Chappelle's 'Killing Them Softly.'
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| 0:00.0 | I don't really know how to start shows. |
| 0:02.0 | Come on now, don't start liking me now. |
| 0:05.0 | So yeah, I'm funny compared to you. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, you'll see later. |
| 0:10.0 | I favor me. |
| 0:11.0 | I know a lot of fucking idiots. |
| 0:13.0 | You think a lot of shit is mean-spirited. |
| 0:14.0 | Just because it goes against what they believe. |
| 0:16.0 | But the relief of comedy is it take things that aren't funny |
| 0:19.0 | and it allows us to laugh about them for an hour. |
| 0:21.9 | We got a purple suit to buy in a gigantic coffin. |
| 0:24.8 | Why are you laughing? |
| 0:26.4 | Evening, everybody. |
| 0:27.2 | Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | And today, I am pleased to introduce to you, Dave Chappelle's killing them softly. |
| 0:36.6 | Killing them softly is what I meant to say, |
| 0:39.0 | recorded in D.C. in 2000. |
| 0:43.3 | So there are, literally, you can go into a bar and talk to an adult |
| 0:46.9 | that this would be the equivalent of me referencing, |
| 0:52.0 | I don't know, honey youngman. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm trying to think who would have been around in, you know, |
| 0:59.8 | the late 60s. |
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