Dave takes a closer look at the P. Diddy-produced reality television show called "Making Da Band" and introduces a new children's show called "Kneehigh Park." Also featuring musical guests Snoop Dogg, and Wyclef and Q-Tip.
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“Making da Band” ranks #13 of 27 Chappelle's Show episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 96.4 — Elite. The episode packs 63 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.6 on impact, with Dave Chappelle landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Dylan: Dylan's rap credential speech: 'Who are the five best rappers of all time? Think about it. Dylan, Dylan... Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan. Because I spit hot fire.'
Dylan Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Herpes Character: Herpes character bursts in: 'I'm the herpes, the herpes / see you in hell, motherfuckers' / 'Ooh baby, I like it raw.'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Bobble's song: 'your grandpa talks about self-respect / and then he takes drugs to keep his cock erect / but it's all drugs to me'
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef's extended monologue: 'If I had my way, I'd never work. I'd just stay home all day, watch Scarface 50 times, eat a turkey sandwich, and have sex all fuckin' day. Then I'd dress up like a clown and surprise kids at schools...'
Wyclef Jean: The 'I'd take a dump in the back of a movie theater, and just wait, 'til somebody sat in it, hear it squish. That's funny to me.' beat
All Jokes — 63 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dave Chappelle: Dave introduces 'Making the Band' as his favorite TV show with genuine fanboy enthusiasm before the sketch
P. Diddy: Puff Daddy tells five aspiring Bad Boy artists that if they want to be on the label, first 'y'all gotta walk to Queens and get me a sugar cookie'
P. Diddy Absurdist Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jamaican Band Member: Band member with Jamaican accent reacts to the sugar cookie demand: 'A sugar cookie, man, this is crazy. We got... come on, man... Bad Boy.'
Dylan: Dylan's rap credential speech: 'Who are the five best rappers of all time? Think about it. Dylan, Dylan... Dylan, Dylan, and Dylan. Because I spit hot fire.'
Dylan Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch P. Diddy: Puff Daddy tastes the sugar cookie and says 'It's a good-ass sugar cookie. You guys are official now, welcome to Bad Boy.'
P. Diddy Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Band Member: Band member celebrates with 'It's Bad Boy, baby. Can't stop... won't stop.' after being welcomed for delivering a cookie
P. Diddy: Studio fight breaks out, Diddy watches and says 'Let 'em fight, let 'em fight!' with glee
P. Diddy: Record scratch followed by Diddy shutting down the studio and demanding they walk through northern New Jersey to get 'a set of left-handed golf clubs'
P. Diddy Escalation Absurdist Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback P. Diddy: Diddy adds a second errand mid-sentence: 'I also need you to take a picture with a midget holding these balloons'
P. Diddy: Diddy congratulates the band: 'You found my man, you found a midget, man... here's the keys to the studio. Now if y'all excuse me, I'm going scuba diving with Chris Tucker and Aquaman.'
P. Diddy: Record scratch, studio shut down again, Diddy demands: 'Y'all gotta walk uptown to the Bronx and get breast milk from a Cambodian immigrant'
P. Diddy Escalation Absurdist Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback P. Diddy: Diddy clarifies: 'I only drink the finest breast milks. Go out there and milk a Cambodian.'
P. Diddy Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Band Member: Band member holds up a glass and says 'It's 100% Cambodian, yo. It's the real shit.' with the clink of the glass
Band Member Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback P. Diddy: Diddy tastes the breast milk and moans 'you made my day-ayyy'
P. Diddy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Dylan · Wyclef: Dylan's freestyle with Wyclef: 'Bumbaclaat bumbaclaat / bumba bumba bumbaclaat / a rump un tomp a rump un ting' — delivered as serious hot fire
Wyclef Jean · Dylan: Wyclef Jean screaming 'You're too close, man! You're too close, man!' implying Dylan is physically invading his space while rapping nonsense
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef's extended monologue: 'If I had my way, I'd never work. I'd just stay home all day, watch Scarface 50 times, eat a turkey sandwich, and have sex all fuckin' day. Then I'd dress up like a clown and surprise kids at schools...'
Wyclef Jean: The 'I'd take a dump in the back of a movie theater, and just wait, 'til somebody sat in it, hear it squish. That's funny to me.' beat
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef then pivots back to high culture: 'Then I'd paint, and read, and play violin. I'd climb the mountains and sing the songs that I like to sing. But I don't got that kinda time, playboy.'
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef calls out individual band members' activities: 'Playboy, you just gonna comb your hair? Sara, you just gonna talk up all your anytime minutes? Babs, you just gonna chop onions right now? Ness, you just gonna do your taxes?'
Wyclef Jean: Wyclef: 'I got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is I'm shutting down the studio.' [record scratch] 'The good news is I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance.'
Wyclef Jean Setup/Punchline Misdirection Absurdist ★ Rewatch P. Diddy (parody): P. Diddy yells 'Fonzworth! Bring me a sandwich!' as the sketch ends, with Outkast playing
P. Diddy · Fonzworth Bentley: Diddy calls 'Fonzworth! Bring me a sandwich!' as an Outkast track plays and a man with angel wings descends to deliver the sandwich
Dave Chappelle: Dave's stand-up transition: 'You ever be watching a ball game, and these beer commercials come on... dudes go out and drink beer and have the best time? Let me tell you something about drinking beer. Drinking beer brings the animal out in somebody.'
Dave Chappelle: Dave adds: 'And I know alcohol companies sponsor my show. I ain't talkin' about them. Them shits are delicious.'
Friend (beer sketch): 'Dudes' Night Out' sketch: fight erupts over a woman, Dave's friend yells 'I bought that bitch a drink! I don't play that!'
Friend (beer sketch): After getting beaten up: 'Dudes' night out! Only reason I'm cryin' is 'cause of the adrenaline.'
Friend (beer sketch) · Dave Chappelle: They approach someone they think is a woman: 'Hey little lady... y'all wanna party wit us?' — it's a man in drag
Friend (beer sketch): Friend responds to being told it's a dude: 'Shut the fuck up, Dave. I am drunk, and I am horny.'
Billy (beer sketch) · Dave Chappelle: After going home with the person: 'A mouth's a mouth, man.' — followed by Dave's horrified departure
Announcer: Beer commercial tag: 'When it's dudes' night out, it's got to be Schlipp's.'
Announcer Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline Callback Dave Chappelle: Dave's intro to 'Lil Donnie' segment: 'There's a lot of wild things going on in the world and it's very hard to explain these things to your children. Tonight I'm going to help you.'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Kids show opening: Robert finds what he thinks is a 'dagger' — Bobble corrects him: 'That's not a dagger at all, it's called a syringe. People use it to inject a drug called heroin directly into their bloodstream.'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Bobble explains why people do heroin: 'Probably because you get higher that way than sniffing it.' / 'Some people think they need it just to get through the day. And some people just like to party and can quit whenever they want. Like me.'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Bobble's song: 'your grandpa talks about self-respect / and then he takes drugs to keep his cock erect / but it's all drugs to me'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Bobble shoots up on stage, euphoric, addresses children: 'It feels like I have a million teeny tiny kitty cats rubbing my balls, as I skeet skeet skeet all over the walls!'
Bobble (Lil Donnie): Bobble slowly collapses over a ten-second span while singing the last word of 'it's all drugs to meeeee' into the ground
Bobble: Bobble performs the closing of the drug song lying on the floor in a near-overdose state: 'They're all... drugs... to... meeeee' held for 20+ seconds
Bobble Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Bobble (Lil Donnie) · Dave Chappelle: 'I'm going to the emergency room. Bye-bye, kids. You see, kids, always throw away your trash.' — another character says this while Bobble is being dragged off
Stinky the Grom: Stinky the Grom (Grouch parody) in a trash can: 'Besides living in a trash can and having a syringe lodged in my fuckin' head, nothin' I guess.'
Kid · Stinky the Grom: Kid says 'My dad says if you never give up and work hard, all your dreams will come true.' Stinky: 'That's the gayest shit I ever heard.'
Stinky the Grom: Stinky's song: 'tells you 'bout work and you want to be him / but when's the last time you got to see him?' / 'He works hard, why? / So you can go out and buy / a bunch of shit that you don't need / driven by your punk-ass hopes and greed'
Stinky the Grom: Stinky's 'Fuck It' song: 'no mansion for me, I said fuck it / no brand new Humvee, I say fuck it / but you'll get no pussy / fuck it / what you don't understand is I make love to my hand'
Stinky the Grom: 'I beat my dick like it owes me money'
Stinky the Grom: After the 'fuck it' song: 'Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go make me a nice feces sandwich.'
Kid · Dave Chappelle: Kid mistakes Dave Chappelle for Chris Rock: 'Look, it's Dangle! And hey, you're Chris Rock!' Dave: 'It's Dave Chappelle, but... close enough.'
Dangle: Dangle has an STD — 'When I pee-pee, it burns like hell. I have what's known as a venereal disease. How did you get it? From fuckin'. I got so much puppet ass, it could be from anywhere!'
Dangle Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Q-Tip: Q-Tip's VD song: 'Sex isn't wrong but you gotta be right / if you're hitting the sheets then wrap it up tight / listen up, kids 'cause I ain't jokin' / one bad decision / your dick will be smokin''
Q-Tip Dark/Subversive Wordplay/Pun STD Doctor · Dave Chappelle: STD Doctor recognizes Dave: 'Oh hello, Dave Chappelle, haven't seen you for a while. What's it been, two months?' Dave reacts with 'Dirty motherfucker!'
Crabs: Personified crabs (singing/dancing crabs as STD characters): 'Oh, here come the crabs... the crabs... the craaaabs... ole!'
Crabs Visual Gag Absurdist Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Herpes Character: Herpes character bursts in: 'I'm the herpes, the herpes / see you in hell, motherfuckers' / 'Ooh baby, I like it raw.'
Dave Chappelle: Dave aside after the Herpes character: 'This nigga's a freak.'
Dave Chappelle: Closing children's show lesson from Dave: 'All right, look, if you just remember to keep your genitals outta harm's way, don't chase money, and refrain from littering... you'll be a winner!'
Dave Chappelle: Dave introduces musical guest: 'Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's musical guest, the voice of Dangle... none other than Snoop Doggy Dogg!'
Snoop Dogg · Tyrone Biggums: Snoop and dealer: 'Who let this motherfuckin' basehead on stage?' — the 'basehead' being Tyrone Biggums, trying to buy crack from Snoop
Snoop Dogg: Snoop, to prove he's not a cop, decides to perform 'Deep Cover' — the entire rest of the musical segment is Snoop performing a real song as 'proof' he's not police
Tyrone Biggums: Tyrone, to prove he's not a cop, has to smoke crack in front of the dealer. He says 'I'm gonna take you on a ride, Tyrone' before the performance.
Dealer: After the performance, the dealer says: 'I can't put you on that one.' — still unconvinced Snoop isn't a cop
Dealer Deadpan/Understatement Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Dave Chappelle: Outro thanks: 'I'd like to thank venereal diseases, and the kids and everybody.'
Dave Chappelle: 'I'm rich, bi-yatch!' with the horn honk — post-credits bumper
Dangle: Post-credits: Dangle reveals his STD again to a bystander — 'How'd you get it?' 'From fuckin'.' (laughs)
Dangle Callback Running Gag Callback Dangle · Man: Post-credits outtake: Dangle puppet at the doctor saying 'I have what's known as a sexually transmitted disease.' 'How'd you get it?' 'From fucking.' [laughs]
Dangle Man Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Band Member: Post-credits: breast milk clink and the band member re-performing the toast — 'Breast milk...' (laughs)
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