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The Nose: Dave Chappelle Comes To Hartford, Millennials Hate Phones & Putin Puts On Sexy Lingerie

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We have in the works, for next week, a show about J.D. Salinger, the American writer most at odds with his own greatness. 
 
Little did we suspect that Dave Chappelle, the comedian most at odds with his own greatness, would come to Hartford and have peculiar and very contrary experience with the audience here and create a national stir by his refusal to perform for them.
 
You'll hear about that today on the show, but it's already a huge kerfuffle on social media, especially because Chappelle famously, in 2005, walked away from a comedy career that had peaked.
 
At the time, he seemed to have deep misgivings about whether he was performing the kind of comedy he should, even though he was more in control of his own destiny than 99 percent of the comedians who have ever lived. So to day on the Nose, what happened in Hartford last night?
 
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Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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