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Dave Chappelle Tells NAACP Image Awards Crowd Don’t Be “Discouraged” In “Very Difficult Time”; Jokes “All My Netflix Checks Cleared”
Dave Chappelle was given the NAACP Image Awards' President Award tonight & delivered some presidential remarks for a "very difficult time"
“My god brother is here tonight, Ben Jealous,” Chappelle told a packed Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Among that crowd was director Stanley Lathan, who helmed everything from Sanford & Son to Sesame Street to BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood, and everything in-between as well as producing and directing a number of Chappell’s own specials on Netflix and elsewhere, which the honoree noted in a shout out to the Peabody Award winner. But it was that Netflix joke that held it all together for the controversial and admired Chappelle’s words tonight at the NAACP Image Awards.
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