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February 27, 2006

Simmons, Chappelle and Cult of Pryor to Sweep Aspen Comedy Fest

Last weekend's NYC-Richard Pryor love-in is seems to be heading west to Aspen, where The Reeler hears this year's US Comedy Arts Festival plans a retrospective of Pryor's NBC variety show and its impact on African-American comedy. This comes in conjunction with the festival's just-announced tribute to hip hop impresario Russell Simmons (right); the USCAF's Freedom of Speech Award is set to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Simmons' Def Comedy Jam.

And the award event sounds like it might actually be a decent trade-off fro traveling to godforesaken Aspen: Dave Chappelle, Cedric the Entertainer, Bill Bellamy and Adele Givens will join Elvis Mitchell in celebrating Simmons' work. I guess that could be funny. Chappelle will also do a Q&A following a screening of his Michel Gondry collaboration Block Party, as will (on a totally unrelated and relatively boring note) Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Ron Livingston following a 10th anniversary screening of Swingers. As though you could not just stay here and find three schlubs to wax nostalgic for free. Stop yawning!

Posted by stvanairsdale at February 27, 2006 03:42 PM

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Good to have Dave Chappelle back and getting active again.

Posted by: Fades To Black [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 28, 2006 12:03 AM