To Dave Chappelle
Dave,
I'm writing because I have an idea for a sketch and I think it belongs to you.
Rick James in your show, the line everybody quotes — „Cocaine is a hell of a drug." The way it landed wasn't because the drug was the point. The drug was the punchline; the truth was somewhere two beats earlier, in his face.
I think that line has a sibling.
„Acid is a hell of a drug ;)"
That's the title. The smiley is part of the title.
The rest is yours.
I'm not going to write the sketch. That would be presumptuous. I'm just leaving the title here, in the open, where you or anyone close to you can find it.
If it makes you laugh: take it. No credit needed. If it doesn't: it stays here as a small offering.
Either way — thank you for the work. The honesty in your stand-up about your own contradictions is one of the few things on a public stage that has helped me name mine.
That's the whole letter. No agenda, no ask. A title, a smiley, and the suggestion that the punchline writes itself if you sit with it long enough.