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David Chappelle has been enraptured by stand-up comedy since his days as an elementary school student at Woodlin Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a middle school student in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His father, William, was a professor of voice and music at Antioch College in Yellow Springs. At 14, Chappelle gathered the courage to perform on stage at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. Chappelle was booed off stage, but described this experience on Inside the Actors Studio as an enlightening experience that gave him courage to continue on. After his parents' divorce, Chappelle moved to Washington, D.C., with his mother, Yvonne Seon (a Unitarian Universalist minister). He spent summers with his father in Yellow Springs and graduated from Duke Ellington School of the Arts (a renowned performing arts high school in Washington, DC), where he majored in literary and theatre arts. In 1992 Dave made his first TV appearance on Def Comedy Jam. In the next year Dave made his first appearance as an actor in Robin Hood: Men in Tights as Ahchoo, and then in Undercover Blues as Ozzie. The period from 1994 to 1997 for Dave was mostly a repetitive cycle of TV appearances, fairly minor stand-up shows, and rather low-budget films. He was also given his first shot at his own show, the short-lived The Dave Chappelle Project, and had a role in the 1996 remake The Nutty Professor. In 1998, however, Dave became a hit cult movie star in Half Baked, a film Dave co-wrote (with Neal Brennan) and produced (uncredited), which follows the lives of four stoners. After Half Baked, Dave did more TV appearances, stand-up shows, and films. In 2000, Dave made a rather large hit appearance on his HBO one-night stand-up show, Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly.
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