Chapelle…Mind…Body…Happiness…Time

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 11th, 2005

The editors of Time magazine paired Dave Chapelle with a writer (Christopher John Farley) and handed over their “Mind/Body” page to them:

There are some comics who are really well-adjusted, and there are some of these guys who walk around kind of wounded. I think I fall somewhere in between. There’s something powerful about being able to translate unhappiness into something positive. It’s a kind of alchemy that artists perform.[…]

Some interesting insights. And we don’t think we’ll see Chapelle complaining about censorship any time soon– he says that standup is “direct”– “…there are no intermediaries between you and the audience. I don’t have to go to Standards and Practices to clear my material. I don’t have to worry about advertisers and what they’ll say. I just tell people jokes off the top of my head.” Read the rest here.