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Character Analysis

Donnell Rawlings

Crowd Member

Played by Donnell Rawlings

12 jokes across 3 episodes of Chappelle's Show

WAR

2.8

Total Jokes

12

Avg Craft

6.5

Avg Impact

6.7

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Donnell Rawlings delivers 12 scored jokes across 3 episodes of Chappelle's Show, averaging 6.5 on craft and 6.7 on impact for a career WAR of 2.8. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Donnell Rawlings Lines

All Jokes — 27 total

S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell Rawlings cuts off Charlie mid-speech: 'Nigga, speak for yourself. I need all the camera time I can get, nigga! I'm goin' ass to the glass!'

7.27.3
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell's 'ka-ching moment': learning Dave went to Africa, he yells 'That mother— I'm broke, bitch!'

7.17.0
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell reacts to learning Dave went to Africa: 'Africa Africa?' followed by 'That mother—' cut to Donnell screaming 'I'm broke, bitch!'

7.37.8
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell: '$50 million out of nowhere — would you use it to get revenge on somebody? Dave Chappelle felt the same way.' Premise setup for revenge sketch

6.35.8
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell setup for Tupac sketch: 'You ever been in the club and a new Tupac record comes out? It's — he's living!'

6.46.7
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell: 'I saw Tupac on 42nd Street selling Biggie t-shirts two for $10, man.'

7.68.0
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell: 'Let's just say his lyrics were a little bit before their time.' Sets up the fake Tupac track.

6.66.3
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings · Fake Tupac:After the fake Tupac song ends, Donnell says 'Tupac, rest in peace.' Beat. Tupac: '¶ okay, I will ¶'

8.79.5
S3E01

Donnell Rawlings · Tupac (Impersonator):Donnell: 'Tupac, rest in peace.' — Song responds: '¶ okay, I will ¶'

7.98.3
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings · Charlie Murphy:The show starts without Dave Chappelle; Donnell Rawlings and Charlie Murphy awkwardly wait, then decide to just start without him

7.77.3
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell Rawlings: 'Yo, I studied that tape like a graduate student'

6.97.0
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:The discovery that Eddie Griffin was visible on TV in the background of the Paris Hilton sex tape — 'they makin' love to Eddie Griffin'

7.27.3
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell introduces the 'racially insecure' premise: 'Have you ever been in a situation where you may have felt, like, racially insecure?'

6.76.5
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings · Charlie Murphy:Meta-segment: Donnell and Charlie reveal Dave had 'problems with the pixie sketch' — they didn't know whether to air it, so they asked the audience

7.06.5
S3E02

Black Audience Member (Olu) · Donnell Rawlings:Black audience member recounts: his co-workers 'say certain things that... 'Nigger, where's the weed?' No, like—' / Donnell: 'That's okay, dog.'

7.37.8
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings · Gary (audience):Donnell spots a Tom Cruise look-alike in the audience: 'Tom Cruise look-alike motherfucker right here. Stand up. What's your name? Gary.' — then: 'Fuck all that scientology shit.'

6.56.8
S3E02

Audience Member (Gary) · Donnell Rawlings:Another audience member says: 'And watermelon is a delicious fruit.' / Donnell: 'See? See? There you go.'

7.07.5
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:After a Black man in the audience makes an enthusiastic but nearly incoherent comment, Donnell: 'You black — you don't got to explain shit. You just hit a couple 'know what I means.' You know what I mean? It was like — I was like, yo. So it was like, bla-dow! A'ight?'

7.07.2
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell on inner racism: 'I got an inner racism in me. If I see an Asian person, if I say 'Where you from?' And they're like, 'Connecticut,' I'm like, 'you know what I'm talking about.''

7.88.3
S3E02

Audience Member (Hispanic man) · Donnell Rawlings:An audience member comments: 'The only problem is, yeah, you included everybody, but the white race is seen as more of like the generic race.' / Donnell: 'It wasn't hard enough for you. You felt that it was the softest one.'

6.66.5
S3E02

Audience Member · Donnell Rawlings:Audience member is on a roll about the sketch: 'Because, you know, fried chicken, it's all light, but some of the issues —' / Donnell (offscreen): 'It's light and crispy, yes.'

7.57.8
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell after the second white pixie reveal: 'I forgot I did that.' — then asking the audience: 'Does that change anything now that you see we did — he did two? No change? Nothing? What if he did 100 white pixies? Would that change anything?'

7.27.2
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Final sign-off: 'I'm rich, biyatch! Honk! Honk!'

7.68.0
S3E02

Audience Member · Donnell Rawlings:Post-credits: An audience member tries to make a point about calling friends on the phone and 'keeping it real,' becomes increasingly incoherent ('Like, you know, you gonna be, like, real professional. Like, I have a friend, like, I have my and myself...'). Donnell: 'We don't know what the fuck you just said. But you on tv, son.'

7.47.5
S3E02

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell's mock impersonation/translation of the incoherent audience member: 'You know, my friend, like, fuck it, like, yo, man. Buy my album. It's coming out 2009. I'm going platinum for the Chappelle's Show, bitch.'

6.56.7
S3E03

Donnell Rawlings · Charlie Murphy:Donnell and Charlie wait awkwardly for Dave, realize he's not coming, and decide to just start the show anyway

8.18.5
S3E03

Donnell Rawlings:Donnell's intro monologue about thinking someone's a racist only to realize you were just being an asshole — or vice versa

7.07.0