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The Bittersweet Legacy of Dave Chappelle’s ‘I’m Rick James, Bitch’
ByJesse David Fox, a Vulture writer and host of Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
Dave Chappelle perfectly as Rick James.
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On February 11, 2004, the fourth episode of the second season of Chappelle’s Show aired. The series had built a great deal of buzz with its 12-episode first season and had some classic sketches over the second season’s first three episodes — including “The Racial Draft” and “The Niggar Family” — but nothing compared to what happened that night: The Rick James installment of “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories” debuted.
Besides being an incredible, hilarious sketch that is able to tell a complete story with both pathos and dense punch line concentration, it instantly became a phenomenon. Very early in the days of social media — Facebook was weeks old — people shared the sketch any way they could, whether it was through MySpace, AIM away messages, or just