It’s not like MC-singer-actor-activist-pitchman Chance the Rapper needs another line of work, but he took a stab at stand-up comedy anyway this week at Chicago’s Laugh Factory.
TMZ posted clips of Chano cracking jokes during an open-mike portion of Tuesday’s show, starting off with a lesson about how he’s known to the public.
“People know me as the Kit-Kat man,” he said, referring to his charming candy bar commercials from 2016. “They say, ‘There’s the 3,’ when I walk by. ... White people know me as the guy who does stuff for schools.
“What do I do for schools? You guys don’t f—-in’ know,” he joshed after silence from the crowd. “Nobody knows what I do for schools. I’ll tell you what I do. I go to all your kids’ schools and I fart in their desks. I wait for the weekend to be over to see if it’s still stale in there.”
Of course, Chance brought to the stage some decent comedy cred, having penned plenty of witty lyrics, hosted “Saturday Night Live” and starred in the campy horror film “Slice.”
But some of his material couldn’t be saved by even the drollest of delivery.
“[I figured out] that the news was fake when I got an HDTV,” he said in his latest journalism critique. “It’s hard to trust somebody that you can see sweating, you know what I’m saying? You want me to trust the news, give it to me on the radio, or that thing that flatlines. I trust both of those things.”
Crickets again, prompting Chance to exclaim, “This is going great!”
