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Damon Wayans Talks Performing a Comedy ‘Verzuz’ with Dave Chapelle, Fans Lose It

August 19, 2021
Jonas Sprow

Fans are buzzing in excess of term from Damon Wayans following he shared that he’s up for a comedy-fashion “Verzuz” with fellow comedian Dave Chappelle. Wayans seemingly challenged Chappelle when he appeared on the morning radio display 97.9 The Box in Houston, Texas, on Friday, Aug. 13.

Wayans was not acquainted with “Verzuz,” and the The Box hosts crammed him in and asked who he would battle if he ended up to do a comedy-design and style “Verzuz.”

(L) Damon Wayans wants to do a comedy-model “Verzuz” with Dave Chapelle (R). Photo by JB Lacroix/ WireImage, ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Photographs

“Do they do comedians?” questioned Wayans.

One of the hosts explained that they should, and yet another asked Wayans who he would go up from.

“Chappelle,” he stated. “I’m calling him out!”

Chappelle had the hit demonstrate “Chapelle’s Exhibit” that aired on Comedy Central from 2003 to 2006. The present involved segments with Charlie Murphy telling stories by means of “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories” about the experiences he experienced conference celebrities although with his famous brother, comedian Eddie Murphy. He and Chappelle reenacted the stories in hilarious sketches that several fans rave about to this working day.

Wayans transformed television along with his brother Keenan Ivory Wayans with his ground-breaking and hilarious sketch-comedy display “In Living Colour.” The show with a mainly Black cast was just one of the most preferred reveals on television in the 1990s. It also introduced the careers of several of Wayans’ siblings, as nicely as Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey, David Alan Grier, Tommy Lee Davison and Jamie Foxx.

In 2001, Wayans established his own show “My Wife and Kids” which was a loved ones sitcom that lasted 5 seasons.

Admirers on social media appeared to like the notion of a Wayans and Chappelle “Verzuz” struggle.

“Damon Wayans has officially termed out @DaveChappelle for a comedic Verzuz. I would loveeee to see it. I enjoy comedy in normal so the assumed of it in verzuz type would be dope af. #VERZUZ.”

Another stated, “A comedy #VERZUZ would b crazy. Dave Chapelle Vs Damon Wayans.”

When admirers are all for it, as of still, there is no official word on a “Verzuz” among Wayans and Chappelle.