One month into Donald Trump’s second term, not a lot of people can follow Kamala Harris at the NAACP Image Awards, but Dave Chappelle can and did Saturday night.
Receiving the President’s Award during Saturday’s 56th NAACP Image Awards not long after the former Vice President was given the Chairman’s Award, the 2019 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recipient put his honor and the venerated organization itself in the sharpest context and held it all together masterfully with a sharp streaming zinger.
“You know, look, I won a lot of awards recently, but this one tonight is probably the most special award I’ve ever gotten, because it’s from this institution that represents these people, us, people of color, black people,” he began.
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“My god brother is here tonight, Ben Jealous,” Chappelle told a packed Pasadena Civic Auditorium. “Ben used to
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