Dave Chapelle and Imitative Humor

My favorite bits of Chapelle stand up are his voice adjustments into his white friend, Chip, the little black drug dealing baby, and Bill Clinton. He also transforms into R. Kelly, the Niggers Milkman, and a host of other charactictures on his show. The laughs with Chapelle come from his imitations of others...which is high form of interpretative art, taking an existing personality and reshaping and reorganizing elements and morphing into through this goofy, skinny, weed smoking, incredibly intelligent performer.

Chapelle has a unique talent for doing this and is one of the very few that I think are intrinsically funny. Just looking at the guy sit and drink coffee would probably be funny.