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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“Just keep going.”—Dave Chappelle

Featuring, in order of appearance:

Kevin Hart, Questlove, Mo Amer, Bill Burr, Pras, Michelle Wolf, and Jon Stewart

Contains music by:

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, and Stevie Wonder

Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020

Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, Kenzi Wilbur, and Miles Hodges

Produced by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT

Production Manager: Liz LeMay

Recording Engineer: Federico Lopez

Recording Engineer: Adrián Bruque for NPND

Assistant Editors: Danny Carissimi and Noah Kowalski

Senior Sound Designer: Russell Topal

Transcription Supervisor: Sam Beasley

Mixer: Jordan Galvan

Podcast Artwork: Rachel Eck

Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton

The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.

Special thanks to Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Sina Sadighi, Mark Silverstein, and Carla Sims.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, boy, I'm very nervous.
0:13.0	No pressure.
0:15.0	This is not live, is it?
0:17.0	I imagine, whatever I say, you could just, you could just edit it out. Let's try it a few ways. Lou, are you in the booth? I am. All I say, you could just edit it out.
0:21.6	Let's try it a few ways.
0:22.6	Lou, are you in the booth?
0:23.6	I am.
0:24.6	All right, good.
0:25.6	You know what, Lou, let's just play around with and see if we can get it right and get this clip package on and then let me go home, all right?
0:30.6	You got it.
0:31.6	All right.
0:32.6	All right.
0:33.6	Count me in.
0:34.6	Five, four, three, two, one.
0:38.3	Wu-Tang, I'm just fucking with you, little.
0:40.3	Let's do it again.
0:41.3	We're gonna do it again.
0:42.3	We'll get it right.
0:44.3	Here we go to do it.
0:48.3	Five, four, three, two. You know, when I was a comedian starting out in Washington, D.C., right here in this city,
1:00.0	1988, I'll never forget this, it was a comedy club owner that banned profanity from his comedy club.
1:06.0	He said he defended his audience, and this was a cause of major concern for all the comedians
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