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Chappelle pulls all-nighter

Chappelle pulls all-nighter - This Dave Chappelle guy, I think there’s more than meets the eye.

Anyone who bought a ticket to the Laugh Factory on Sunday night ended up getting two surprises.

The first came when Dave Chappelle appeared onstage at 10:36 p.m. for an unannounced set. The second shocker: Chappelle kept telling jokes until 4:43 the next morning—making his entire set a whopping six hours and seven minutes.

That’s the longest performance by any comedian in the the 28-year history of the Laugh Factory, according to founder Jamie Masada.

And the guy wasn’t talking to an empty room.

Indeed, Masada said only about a dozen of the 150-plus original members of the audience left the club before Chappelle wrapped his set. “The audience was with him 100 percent,” he said.

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rob

also: Mark Watson performed a 36 hour gig at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year. 7 minutes of it .

Alexander Micek

I thought Rob was kidding (I think his link may have been filtered out), but this Mark Watson guy really does perform for 36 hours. My God that’s a long time.

“…a 36-hour non-stop stand-up performance entitled Mark Watson’s Seemingly Impossible 36-Hour Circuit of the World; Mark Watson and His Audience Write a Novel, in which he wrote his second novel with contributions from the audience.”
- BBC Radio 4

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