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Nelson Mandela's Boot Camp
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
On a troubled-teens episode of Sally Jessy Raphael's talk show, a fed-up mother complains that her son Ronald is completely out of control, so Sally announces he is headed to boot camp under the toughest leader around. Dave Chappelle cuts in from the studio to warn viewers that this is exactly where the sketch falls apart, as the drill instructor turns out to be Nelson Mandela, played by Dave in a wig he admits looks nothing like the real man. Back at the barracks Mandela slams the teens onto their bunks, fires off puns on his own name and history, threatens to humiliate a heavyset recruit and holds up a bag of drugs to prove he knows what is happening on the streets, before the whole squad ends up dancing and celebrating with him.
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This is where the sketch goes completely wrong.
Mandela proceeds to just beat the hell out of these kids for the next, like, eight to nine minutes.
Behind the scenes
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The talk-show host is the real Sally Jessy Raphael, appearing as herself on her own Sally set.
Script
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- 00:01
Herself
Today, of course, we are dealing with kids who are B.A.D. bad.
- 00:06
Do you see, Sally? This is what I have to deal with. Ronald is just out of control. He's so trifling.
- 00:14
Ronald ?
Oh, Ma, shut up.
- 00:16
Herself ?
I have to straighten you up. Guess where you are going.
- 00:23
Ronald ?
Boot camp?
- 00:24
Herself ?
Yeah, boot camp, that's right. With the hardest CEO you have ever met.
- 00:30
Himself
this is where the sketch goes completely wrong that's right Nelson Mandela
- 00:46
Nelson Mandela ?
notice all of you get disgusted.
- 00:53
Himself
Notice how shitty the wig is not look anything like Nelson Mandela but the sketch just gets progressively crazy Mandela proceeds to just beat the hell out of of these kids for the next, like, eight to nine minutes. All right, he's just berating them and beating them. Here, just show them some of the beat dance.
- 01:14
Nelson Mandela ?
This is a full Nelson, bitches are puns. Hey, you, cry freedom. Cry the beloved country. If I wanted to be mean, I would tell this kid how fat he is. Huh? I would tell him that I would squeeze his breasts together and make love to his bosom if he wouldn't.
- 01:36
Himself ?
Pretty bad, huh? Look it's weirder than that
- 01:41
Nelson Mandela ?
You think Mandela doesn't know what this is you think Mandela doesn't know it's popping on the streets
- 01:48
Yeah, I'm not sure but I think mr. Mandela smell my drugs
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