{"id":3253,"date":"2016-08-31T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T05:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/dave-chappelle-announces-eight-london-shows-in-september\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T10:40:40","slug":"dave-chappelle-announces-eight-london-shows-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/dave-chappelle-announces-eight-london-shows-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Chappelle announces eight London shows in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Dave Chappelle is to perform a full stand-up set in the UK for only the second time. <\/p>\n<p> The contemplative and completely hilarious comic will perform eight shows in London between September 6 and September 9 at intimate venues Brixton Electric and Camden Electric Ballroom, at 7pm and 9.30pm each night. <\/p>\n<p> They follow a sold-out run in Hammersmith last year. <\/p>\n<p><figure><img src=\"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1472637954-abce0fd1c06e2e89ca8566ef1f2b0668-600x401.jpg\"\/><figcaption>(Matt Sayles\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> The Washington native, who starred in Chappelle\u2019s Show for three years until 2006, has had a recent run of gigs in New York \u2013 where he labelled Black Lives Matter \u201ca terrible slogan\u201d, saying \u00e2\u0080\u009cenough is enough\u201d would be better.<\/p>\n<p> His publicist later told Mic: \u201cIt\u2019s a comedy show. Saying \u2018black lives matter\u2019 is like calling gum chewy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> More of the same can be expected at the shows in London, where phones are strictly not allowed. <\/p>\n<p> Tickets are on sale here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chappelle is to perform a full stand-up set in the UK for only the second time. The contemplative and completely hilarious comic will perform eight shows in London between September 6 and September 9 at intimate venues Brixton Electric and Camden Electric Ballroom, at 7pm and 9.30pm each night. They follow a sold-out run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}