Last night, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Kevin Hart, Marlon Wayans, Bill Bellamy, Hannibal Buress, and Questlove joined forces for an impromptu performance at New York’s Comedy Cellar.
Yeah, you read that right. We’re so depressed we weren’t there, too.
The night before (Tuesday, if you’re keeping track) Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle joined together for a surprise joint set where they prank texted and called Jay-Z and Arsenio Hall. Seriously.
But luckily, last night’s epic show was captured on Questlove’s Instagram. As he describes it:
I once sat in on drums with Prince on bass, Sheila E on percussion, Frank Mcomb on keys, Rachelle Ferrell on vocals doing Stevie Wonder’s catalogue (who incidentally was also sitting in….with Joni Mitchell & Selma Hayek as our audience) and I *think* I might have felt as high as I did tonight. I was working on the other side of the world when suddenly I got a “get yo arse down here NOW!!!!!” text. Sure enough I made it just in time to see the best night ever at the comedy cellar: Hannibal was on 1st, then Chapelle did an amazing off the top bit about what life will be like in a South African jail with prosthetic legs…and the pope quitting his career too. & then the floodgates opened:
Hart riffed on Spilling drinks on Hov then everyone got in a cipher doing a mini roast/dozens/lovefest about each other. It was honest to god like watching the comic version of “scenario” or “the symphony” jokes and punchlines were flying fast. Stories of way back when was told. And I had the best seat in the house (Dave told me to play piano….but I took the bench just to get a good view) amazing night watching #themaster5
This was supposed to be a one-night-only thing, but it brought back those rumors of Rock and Chappelle maybe going out on tour together, which Chris Rock is now hinting could happen as early as November.
Let us pray.
