Dave Chapelle's Remains Found in Cincinnati

Dave Chapelle's 'Nervous Breakdown' World Tour (save the souvenir shirts with the list of dates on the back -- those'll be hipster heaven in a decade or so) made a pitstop in Cincinnati recently, where Dave played to a more manageable bite-sized crowd of 325, and shared some barely comprehensible mumblings with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Some highlights from the article:

On returning to small club standup:

• "It's like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people."
• "Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems."
• "I like that particular kind of attention. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you."

On reports of his breakdown:

• "It was a little weird. It felt like some of the stuff was real tabloid, like raw speculation."

• "It was like stuff I would normally buy and believe. I just took it as a learning experience. It was like becoming a public person and learning all the responsibility that comes with that."

On what's next:

• "Wow. … That's a good question. … Is `I don't know' an acceptable answer?"

Of course it is, Dave! There are no wrong answers! And you're right: I have no idea what its like to stand on a stage speaking my mind and hanging out with a wall of smiling people. Now why don't you show me what the bad Basic Cable Network did to you with these anatomically correct dolls and finger paints...