Living Color Vs. Chappelle's Show

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  • CottonCitySlim
    CottonCitySlim Members Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Also Chapelle was just comedy, but ILC had a way of addressing social issues but in a funny way where people were aware but not offended
  • CottonCitySlim
    CottonCitySlim Members Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Like what? I'll wait
  • TheNightKing
    TheNightKing Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Like what? I'll wait

    Only thing Chapelle addressed was race, and he was actually just making light of the stereotypes people place on one another. He never really addressed anything. ? D. Clown addressed the fact that white people expected blacks to assimilate to their way of life and he wasn't having it. Anton put a different light on homelessness. Handy Man actually empowered the handi-cap. Men on Film put homosexuality out instead of hiding it. Plus, ILC put rappers out there before it was pop music.
  • almighty breeze
    almighty breeze Members Posts: 1,928 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chappelle's Show
    None of the Wayans can hide their homosexuality. that wasnt on purpose
  • BDBIID
    BDBIID Members Posts: 18,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chappelle's Show
    Betta not bring yo kids!


    ILC would have me laughing, but Chappelle's show would have me in absolute tears.
  • BarryHalls
    BarryHalls Members Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    Living Color
    ^^^ forgot about brother's brothers. That was hilarious when they would start singing, sounding like john Denver or some other super white singer.

    One of my favorite skits.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6xI_yu-FQ

    Chappelle Show is good but it aint touchin' In Living Color.

    More variety, more memorable characters and uhh oh yea, their musical guests were actually at the show.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8OX7pn_vR8

    And they use to Ether the hell out of the Jacksons and other celebs.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR9_bMlcXKs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNB7Y_nfwk

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB2Vd4ba6LQ

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1da7FqyTw


    Man theres just too much material.
  • goldenja
    goldenja Members Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    Living Color
    Classic
    Season 1 Ep. 9
    http://youtu.be/SmY9CWIQGzo
  • Breezy_Kilroy
    Breezy_Kilroy Members Posts: 10,500 ✭✭✭✭✭
    alot of these dudes too young to remember how groundbreaking ILC was/is.

    ILC broke ground and fathered alot of these shows

    I feel that don't make it better though even it did break new ground.
    The first don't always equal the best.
    Is SNL better because it came first? that's a sketch show as well.
    We also gotta factor in that Chappelle was the sole star whereas ILC had multiple, of course there would be more variety, creativity.
    And let's not act like the show didn't fall off when majority of OG cast left.
    I'm not saying CS is better but its being relatively undervalued in here.

    But i will say Chappelle>>>>>>>> any of them as comedians
  • goldenja
    goldenja Members Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    Living Color
    J-Breezy wrote: »
    alot of these dudes too young to remember how groundbreaking ILC was/is.

    ILC broke ground and fathered alot of these shows

    I feel that don't make it better though even it did break new ground.
    The first don't always equal the best.
    Is SNL better because it came first? that's a sketch show as well.
    We also gotta factor in that Chappelle was the sole star whereas ILC had multiple, of course there would be more variety, creativity.
    And let's not act like the show didn't fall off when majority of OG cast left.
    I'm not saying CS is better but its being relatively undervalued in here.

    But i will say Chappelle>>>>>>>> any of them as comedians

    have you seen how bad CS is beating the ? out of living color right now? lol...

    its 14 to 38 lol
  • marc123
    marc123 Members Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    J-Breezy wrote: »
    alot of these dudes too young to remember how groundbreaking ILC was/is.

    ILC broke ground and fathered alot of these shows

    And let's not act like the show didn't fall off when majority of OG cast left.

    of course it was not as good after all the Wayans left. thats a given. but it was still funny, jus not as funny. still had Jamie Foxx, David Alan Grier, Tommy Davidson and Jim Carey.
  • genocidecutter
    genocidecutter Members Posts: 17,825 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    mr_establishment-200.jpg

    In living Color gave us ? the clown
  • TheNightKing
    TheNightKing Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Remember that skit when the runaway slave raised generations in a cave. When the last living son came out it was the 90's and ran into another black dude. Slave's son was tripping over how other dude was acting towards white people. Other dude was like, you been in a cave all this time, things have changed. Then they dude gets his ass kicked by the cops. Slave's son was like, guess things haven't changed that much. Deep.

    Funny part when he was like, stop eyeballing that white woman! Damon and David broke character and lost it. Must have been ad-libbed.
  • TheNightKing
    TheNightKing Guests, Members, Writer, Content Producer Posts: 2,484 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    And I agree, this is a generational thing. ILC proponents would say it's better than Flip Wilson or something, but that generation would disagree.
  • marc123
    marc123 Members Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    charles2 wrote: »
    Remember that skit when the runaway slave raised generations in a cave. When the last living son came out it was the 90's and ran into another black dude. Slave's son was tripping over how other dude was acting towards white people. Other dude was like, you been in a cave all this time, things have changed. Then they dude gets his ass kicked by the cops. Slave's son was like, guess things haven't changed that much. Deep.

    Funny part when he was like, stop eyeballing that white woman! Damon and David broke character and lost it. Must have been ad-libbed.

    damn! i forgot about the skit. CLASSIC ?

    I remember watchin that episode the nite it aired. that was soooo funny. i remember how i couldnt stop laughing. (yes, a ? does remember that far back. lol)
  • gns
    gns Members Posts: 21,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Post that ? yo
  • marc123
    marc123 Members Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
  • gns
    gns Members Posts: 21,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Yep ilc>>>>My ? chapelle
  • aka40Cal
    aka40Cal Members Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Chappelle's Show
    just look at how much money Chappelle was offered for another season. Man, ppl still say "SHOOT THE J..SHOOT IT" in basketball because of that Prince skit. (and it was true)
  • ocelot
    ocelot Members Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    charles2 wrote: »
    Being someone who loved both, In Living Color was by far the better show. Chapelle was a one-trick pony show (centered around race). He did that one thing better than anyone else, but In Living Color was so well rounded and the cast was crazy talented. ILC paved the way for all black sketch comedy shows. Chapelle was edgy for it's time, but ILC was even edgier for its time. Just look up the controversy they caused with their Super Bowl Halftime show.

    Out of his top 10 sketches I'll say 3 are about race
  • marc123
    marc123 Members Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    J-Breezy wrote: »
    alot of these dudes too young to remember how groundbreaking ILC was/is.

    ILC broke ground and fathered alot of these shows

    But i will say Chappelle>>>>>>>> any of them as comedians

    smh. wtf u talkin bout ? . this thread aint bout who is the better comedian. its show vs show.

    imo its common knowledge Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle are the 2 best stand up comedians of all time.
  • ocelot
    ocelot Members Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As far as stand up... Chris Rock>
  • gns
    gns Members Posts: 21,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Living Color
    Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy both dominated their eras.
    Foh with that other revisionist history.

    The special after "bigger and blacker" was Meh.......so was "run tell dat"

    Kings of comedy was good for a one shot, Katt and Kevin had a spark when they started....

    Dave was cool, not no best to ever done it level though.

    George Carlin was never funny just a rebel.
  • Casino_Slim
    Casino_Slim Members Posts: 19 ✭✭
    CS was maybe more funnier than ILC but ILC pushed more grounds and their body of work was better than CS. Of course ILC had a deeper more talented cast than CS. Half the cast parlayed movie careers from that show. Hell the Fly Girls were even celebrities. And you have to take in account the fact that was early 90's on a brand new Network (Fox) they gave K Wayans (who else besides Cosby or Arsenio was running things back then?) creative control to do what he wanted to do. They dissed everybody Milli Vanilli, Vanilla Ice Tommy Davidson with that MC Hammer skit was hilarious till this day . Just think if they were on a cable network how much funnier they could of been
  • BarryHalls
    BarryHalls Members Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2014
    Living Color
    They dissed everybody Milli Vanilli

    Thanks for reminding me about that hilarious bit.

    I was wondering why they kept highlighting "Positive Energy" and then I found out Milli Vanilli means just that in Turkish. LOL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVpItnFES_4

  • marc123
    marc123 Members Posts: 16,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    gns wrote: »

    Dave was cool, not no best to ever done it level though

    Other than Pryor. Who was tho?