Newsmakers

Newsweek, September, 2005 by Allison Samuels, Devin Gordon, Nicki Gostin

D. L. HUGHLEY

One of the original kings of Comedy has a new talk show, "Weekends at the DL," on Comedy Central. Hughley spoke with NEWSWEEK's Allison Samuels.

On the ads for "DL," you say, "You thought they wouldn't give another brother a show, didn't you?" Why so bold?

Hey, it's the 800-pound elephant in the room. Dave Chappelle and I aren't really alike in our comedy, but we're both black men who tell jokes, so the comparisons are unavoidable. I can't lie and say the network isn't gun-shy after that incident with Dave, so I just thought I'd deal with it from jump street. No disrespect to Dave, but there's no sweeping it under the rug.

Your jokes about Condi Rice's hair are brutal! You think you'll hear from her people?

Please. My...

Read the full article with a Free Trial at MyWire.

Premium Content Partnership | MyWire provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.