Dave Chappelle abruptly ends show at Seminole Hard Rock after spotting cellphone in audience

Good point it does make it easy to sabatoge his shows... but trust me, if the dude aint get screamed ON, you better believe it was a mostly

cac crowd..

because WE definitely wouldve been sceaming on dude who fucked up everybody night...it also means something if Dave was on stage for a minute,

If Dave was on stage for more than ninety minutes, then the audience pretty much got what they paid for... not sure how long he was on stage,

but, IF he was on stage for more than ninety min, can the audience really complain tho???
What if you spent $200 for tickets :hmm:


If the show was scheduled for 90 odd minutes, no. However, they can if the show was cut earlier than expected.imagine going to a movie and someone stops the movie with 15 to 30 minutes left. From the sound of the article, the guy was removed,Dave may have gave a lecture and walked off. It doesn't sound like anyone would have had an opportunity to address the person with there phone. They probably thought the show was going to continue.

It sounds like the person wasn't recording the show as much as some disagreement with Dave and another audience member or Dave said something someone thought was offensive. Now under those circumstances I probably would have walked off too, but it's still wrong. I don't understand why people come to things that they are likely to be offended by. At this point, Dave should be use to the sensitive people and carry on the show, but again I get it.



200 probably would be on the low end and if you are with someone that's still 400. I remember paying around 600 each for 2 tickets and there were tickets for 1k or more, yet people are talking like we are discussing a 10 to 20 movie tickets.
 
I understand your point, but I've never subscribed to the overall point especially given the type of comic Dave is. In general, if something entertains me, I'll likely still enjoy it years later. Using Dave, I recently watched Chappelle Show skits and still found them funny. In the last year, I heard or seen people reference the where's Ja line, understood the reference and still thought it was funny. I'm not buying the whole my jokes being heard or told hurts me. People buy movies and music because they enjoyed the content and intend on using it for years on some level. Shit can get old but that isn't the same as losing quality. Even with live entertainment, some people will go see a performance multiple times and it's the same show/tour.

I can more so respect I'm working material and it's not necessarily done yet. However, in my opinion you shouldn't be doing real/big shows in those instances. I'll also give you it could be a form of lose revenue for a performer. Some people won't pay for what they can get for free. However, leaks could help by way of promotion/marketing. In Dave's case, I'm assuming the special is already paid for by Netflix, so I'm not how this would hurt him high level.

Honestly I feel like in general Dave's ego is getting bigger and he's believing the hype. Have the person who was recording removed and continue the show. You are hurting multiple paying fans for one disrespectful one. As far as people doing the same in the future, add a clause in your contract that the venue will be fined for leaks and phones. Ultimately, this was their failure.

I saw comments saying this happened at the end of the show. If that's the case and lets say Dave was giving extra I don't see an issue.
No artist that cares about their career would agree with you on that point.

If a comedian knew someone was going to throw their show up on social media, they would never try out new material in their show.

All an artist has is their work. You are not helping an artist by giving away what they charge for. Dude was in the front row recording in a show where he agreed to surrender his recording device until the end of the show and he still slipped a phone in. It was not a surprise. It says so on the tickets when you argree to purchase them that phones will be taken. The venue failed to catch it, but somehow Dave is wrong for calling it out?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Most importantly, the venue agreed to take all phones and they didn't.
That is a contract violation. if you let them get away, other venues will do it, too.
 
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Because if the venue failed to catch one, its a compromised venue and others could also be recording. If he's trying out new material, its now out on social media. Its no longer new and can't be used to promote his next show.
Stop making shit up.
 
No artist that cares about their career would agree with you on that point.

If a comedian knew someone was going to throw their show up on social media, they would never try out new material in their show.

All an artist has is their work. You are not helping an artist by giving away what they charge for. Dude was in the front row recording in a show where he agreed to surrender his recording device until the end of the show and he still slipped a phone in. It was not a surprise. It says so on the tickets when you argree to purchase them that phones will be taken. The venue failed to catch it, but somehow Dave is wrong for calling it out?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE.

Most importantly, the venue agreed to take all phones and they didn't.
That is a contract violation. if you let them get away, other venues will do it, too.

Dave wants his audience to honor the agreement and he should do the same by completing the show for those who followed the rules. He can address the situation by having the person removed per the terms of purchase. Where did I say that or as you worded it calling it out was an issue?

Assuming you see no issue with Dave, you likely only feel that way because you weren't directly impacted. If your internet provider said they cut off your service for ten days because one of your neighbors shared their wifi with someone else against the rules, you aren't going to say I understand and agree with the company. If you don't leave the company all together, you are going to ask to be compensated for the ten days of service.you aren't going to care about someone else breaking the rules.

Dave is wrong for not proceeding with the scheduled show as his paying customer's agreed to as advertised. Unless you can show otherwise, the ticket and likely signage stated individuals who were caught with a phone would be asked to leave. It didn't say anything about Dave refusing to continue the show that cost on the low end 100/200 a ticket to over a thousand a ticket if someone broke the rule.

If you say, you are stealing my content, that is different from my jokes won't be as funny or I don't want to be judged for test material. Comedians usually say they are opposed to phones for the latter reason. Material is put behind a paywall like Patreon and leaked. Said material makes its way here and potentially the entertainer gains a new audience. Hopefully paying or supporting the creator directly moving forward. At no point did I say, anyone should be cool with boils down to their work being stolen. My point was it isn't necessarily a complete loss. Ironically, back in the day I got a leaked audio of one of Dave's routines after leaving Chappelle Show from here. I let people who only knew him from CS skits listen to the leaked audio and they went on to support him financial years later. I would also pay for tickets to his show.

If the venue agreed and failed to uphold taking phones, I'd hope there was a penalty clause. If not and as I said before, add the verbiage to future contracts. Who exactly did I say should get a way with anything?the guy was removed and that was never my complaint. If Dave wants to walk off stage, put that on the ticket or term of purchase. In the event the rules are broken, no one can complain as they agreed at the time of the purchase. Personally, im not paying someone to be potentially penalized for a stranger's behavior, but that's just me. If other venues fail to uphold the agreement, you'll be compensated every time per the contract. According to you, Dave already has this as part of his agreement, so why walk off if you are being compensated for the disturbance.
 
He'd rather disappoint 20,000 people than embolden 200,000.

Another thing that disappointed me about seeing him live was I heard a lot of it last year when it leaked-- He seems to have stuck with that material 90% unchanged. It was so long ago I didn't expect that.

So in a way, the leaks make the real thing less special. It really devalues his work. I understand why he would send that message.

This is the leak I was talking about-- I saw a longer version, though, not on TikTok...

May 2022:

So white people just gonna go to his show and film it?
I KNOW Dave asks people not to film his shit!


May was a long time back for material that made it into what is essentially a 2024 special!
 
They opened by playing the intro to his next Netflix special. Maybe they taped some of it that night, not sure. I felt a little cheated-- or, more reasonably, disappointed-- at paying for what seemed to just amount to a sneak peak of a special everyone would have access to in a month.

The filmed version is the one I went to...

In his seventh Netflix stand-up special, "The Dreamer," comedic heavyweight Dave Chappelle takes the stage at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, D.C., reflecting on his journey from ticket giveaways to becoming one of the world's most renowned stand-up comedian.
 
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Dave is turning into a diva and him being anti Hollywood doesn't give him the right to just take it out on paying customers,his fans cause those are the people that made him who he is
 
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