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TheLove Contract sketchfromChappelles Showis half the reason people yell Kobe!
when they throw anything at a basket, on the court or off.
Its one of a dozen tics and catchphrases weve forgotten we take after the comedian.
Theyve bled into the way we think and the way we speak.
You cant stay cutting-edge forever.
Its Chappelles most poignant material in ages.
Whats different this time is that hes almost exclusively boxing upward, or at least sideways, now.
The targets are police violence and cable-news personalities trying to make sense of the days malaise.
Conservative pundit Candace Owens catches hell for kowtowing to the alt-right.
Don Lemon gets smoke for trying to shame celebrities into speaking up.
Chappelles defense is sound.
We know where he stands.
The movement doesnt need celebrity platitudes.
It was almost perfect.
By morning, as the clip spread on Twitter, captioning on8:46was disabled.
(Vulture reached out to Netflix and is still awaiting comment.)
What changed in a week?
Whatever the case, Chappelle in middle age still mirrors his audience.
Were coming together, and fast nowadays; we still have a ways to go.
