‘Canceled’ Comic Dave Chappelle Booked Two Nights at Madison Square Garden

Dave Chappelle will fight woke oppression in the same manner as many of comedy’s most canceled artists have done so before him – with a stadium tour.

Early this morning, Louis C.K. sold out Manhattan’s most prestigious venue, and, with two opportunities to perform on the Knicks’ home court, Chappelle seems like a shoe-in to do the same. 

One year ago, transgender activists and allies petitioned for a Minneapolis theater to cancel a planned appearance from Chappelle, forcing the star comic to relocate to a different venue down the street. When protestors greeted Chappelle and his fans with picket signs, Chappelle called his audience’s decision to attend the set a “huge act of defiance.” If the roughly 20,000 Chappelle fans scheduled to flood into Midtown Manhattan next month are met with any sort of civil resistance, I’d imagine the show will be something roughly like the opening of The Warriors. “Can you dig it?”