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In Netflix special, Chappelle says San Francisco taught him 'the trick to life'
FILE: Dave Chappelle performs during a midnight pop-up show at Radio City Music Hall on Oct. 16, 2022, in New York City.
Jason Mendez/Getty Images for ABADave Chappelle just released a new comedy special streaming on Netflix called “The Dreamer,” and once again, San Francisco makes a major appearance.
Chappelle has a long history in the city, becoming a regular at the Punch Line after he quit his Comedy Central show. Later in his career, he developed a friendship with the late trans comic Daphne Dorman, a San Francisco resident he has repeatedly invoked in his standup specials. He has drawn widespread condemnation from LGBTQ groups for transphobic comments.
The comic typically returns to San Francisco a few times a year (he once referred to the city as “an ATM machine” that he’d play whenever he needed money). When he comes to the city, controversy typically follows — at Chase Center in 2022 he brought out Elon Musk to boos, and at the Masonic he railed against the state of San Francisco. However, at his most recent appearance at the Punch Line in July 2023, he seemed to have moved past the type of culture war humor that tarnished his reputation among many fans.
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Despite a proclamation at the end of his previous special “The Closer” that he was done telling jokes about the trans community, he continues to speak about LGBTQ people and gender identity throughout “The Dreamer.” The tone is less antagonistic, but the punchlines serve as clear dog whistles calling back to the previous controversy. Some jokes come across as lazy; at other moments Chappelle flashes his old brilliance. Whatever your thoughts are about Chappelle at this point, “The Dreamer” isn’t likely to change them.
Halfway through the set, Chappelle leaves the stage for a cigarette and returns to tell an extended story about San Francisco. At 22 years old, Chappelle was offered an HBO comedy special that was filmed at San Francisco’s Broadway Studios, located in North Beach. The venue was located above a nightclub, and 20 minutes into Chappelle’s set the club started playing loud music, which Chappelle thought ruined his show (although in the final product, the disruptive music isn’t audible).
After that SF show, Chappelle kicked in the door to the production trailers outside the venue and started yelling at the staff. The producers blamed one of the people associated with the nightclub, so Chappelle turned his anger toward a man associated with the venue whom he identified as a Russian mobster. Chappelle ended up in the dark kitchen of the club cursing at the mobster, who blamed the producers. When Chappelle realized he was wrong, he apologized.
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“It’s a funny thing if you believe you’re absolutely right. You can get drunk off the feeling of how right you are,” Chappelle says, before slipping in a punchline about gay people.
After apologizing to the mobster, Chappelle says, he had a realization in San Francisco that he explained in the final 10 minutes of his set.
“In your life, at any given moment, the strongest dream in that moment wins that moment. I am a very powerful dreamer …
“That’s the trick to life. You have to be wise enough to know when you are living in your dream. And you have to be humble enough to accept when you are in someone else’s.”
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Artwork quilt unveiled at San Francisco dirt alley that was mistakenly bought at auction
In the fall of 2025, CBS News Bay Area first brought you the story of a Sunset couple that had the winning bid for a piece of property next to their home. They thought they were getting the duplex next door. Instead, they got a small patch of land known as Dirt Alley.
This story has many chapters, but it ended with a community celebration.
The final chapter in the story of Dirt Alley was written Wednesday night as they unveiled the tiles of artwork on the pavement.
“I’m very happy today,” JJ Hollingsworth said. “It’s just amazing that these artists that I’ve been working with and sold the alley to have come through with this incredible art.”
JJ Hollingsworth was the original property owner. She took out $25,000 from her retirement to pay for this parcel in a city auction. She thought she got a bargain for the duplex next door. When she found out it was actually the alley, the stress led to health problems and a lot of anxiety.
“I’m trying to forget, but I caused all this,” she said. “That’s what happened. I caused all this.”
Then came an email that would help her get out of the Dirt Alley nightmare. A group of friends from San Francisco was interested in buying this 82-foot-long alley.
“I know she was really stressed out when she first bought this and kind of didn’t know what she was going to do with it,” Theo Bleier said. “It’s really lucky. We were going to buy a different parcel, and we lost the auction. It was more than we wanted to spend. We felt really lucky the coincidence worked out, and we were able to help out JJ.”
The new owners then had the idea of laying an artwork quilt on the pavement and took submissions online.
“I think we had about one million people visit the website at least,” owner Patrick Hultquist said. “1.2 million, I think is the number of people that visited the website.”
The tiles with the most votes made it onto what is now called Notion way.
“Now, it’s not an official name of the street. It’s an unofficial name, but we did get an official-looking sign,” he said.
JJ Hollingsworth, who is a music composer, wrote a ballad called Notion Way for the special occasion. What started as a horrible mistake ended up bringing the community together.
“It’s really beautiful,” neighbors Tom Goslinga & Nesha Niezrecki said. “It’s how culture gets created in a lot of ways. People kind of being creative with an interesting situation. It’s really cool.”
While Hollingsworth is grateful for how this story ended, she says she learned a valuable lesson from this whole experience.
“Read the fine print and ask a lot of questions,” she said.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A driver in a car riddled with bullets fled a Marin County Sheriff’s Office deputy at high speeds over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco early Tuesday morning, according to authorities. The suspect, identified as Martin Zuniga Jr., 26, was later located in Novato and arrested.
The deputy first observed the suspect driving at approximately 100 mph on Highway 101 near the Richardson Bay Bridge. After pulling over the car, the deputy “noticed approximately 14 fresh bullet holes in the vehicle,” the sheriff’s office wrote. Zuniga allegedly told the deputy that he had just been involved in a road rage incident near Novato, but he refused to get out of the car and give a statement.
Zuniga “abruptly put the car into drive and fled the scene,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
The pursuit led to the Golden Gate Bridge, where the deputy disengaged due to unsafe speeds across the span, according to authorities. The car was later found abandoned on the streets of San Francisco.
At approximately 6 p.m., detectives located Zuniga in downtown Novato and placed him into custody. The sheriff’s office said at the time of the arrest that he was in possession of a loaded .40-caliber pistol with a high-capacity magazine and suspected cocaine.
Zuniga was booked into the Marin County Jail for:
- Reckless evading
- Violently resisting law enforcement
- Felon in possession of a firearm
- Felon in possession of ammunition
- Addict in possession of a firearm
Anyone with information regarding a shooting or road rage incident in the evening or early morning hours of June 15 and June 16 is asked to contact the Marin County Sheriff’s Office at 415-479-2311.
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