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Black Bush
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Dave Chappelle reimagines George W. Bush as a confrontational president whose advisers enthusiastically back his march toward war. Briefings about intelligence, international allies and the aftermath of the invasion become displays of bravado. Jamie Foxx appears as a similarly transformed Tony Blair, while reporters struggle to pin down the administration’s explanations.
The funny people
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Be real real, son.
Japan's sending PlayStations.
The United States of Space.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Dave Chappelle
Writer

Neal Brennan
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Neal Brennan recalled initially doubting Chappelle's premise, then helping develop the sketch.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Speaker 1
Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you now, Black Bush.
- 00:07
Speaker 2
President Bush continues to make his case for an invasion of Iraq.
- 00:11
Black Bush
After carefully examining the region, me and my cabinet agree that that area is definitely ripe for regime change.
- 00:17
Black Bush Cabinet Member
All right.
- 00:17
Black Bush
But if I can be real about it...
- 00:19
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Be real, son.
- 00:19
Black Bush
Real?
- 00:20
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Be real, real, son.
- 00:21
Black Bush
Tried to kill my father, man.
- 00:23
Black Bush Cabinet Member
What?
- 00:23
Black Bush
And play that .
- 00:25
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Say a word. He tried to kill your father, son.
- 00:27
Black Bush
That nigga tried to kill my father!
- 00:29
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Word to everything we love, we coming to see y'all, son.
- 00:34
Speaker 2
Meanwhile, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair offered a spirited explanation for a possible war with Iraq.
- 00:40
Black Bush
This nigga very possibly has weapons of mass destruction. I can't sleep on that. Not on my watch. That's not how I roll. That is serious. Now, if you don't want to take my word for it, why don't you ask Tony Blair? He got a whole nother set of intelligence. What's up, Tony?
- 00:55
Black Tony Blair
We don't know much about this stuff, but we can't trust random niggas with things like that, as George so eloquently put it. I'm with him 100% of the way. We don't know what he has.
- 01:09
Speaker 3
If the United States goes to war with Iraq, will it first have to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction? So far, the U.N. has found nothing. But President Bush counters with this.
- 01:23
Black Bush
The nigga bought aluminum tubes! Do I need to tell you what the f*** you can do with an aluminum tube?
- 01:31
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Aluminum!
- 01:32
Black Bush
That don't scare you? Fine, I don't even want to say this.
- 01:38
Black Bush
The mother bought some yellow cake, okay, in Africa. He went to Africa and he bought yellow cake.
- 01:43
Reporter
Are you sure?
- 01:44
Black Bush
Yes, I'm sure, bitch. I got the head of the CIA right here. He'll tell you.
- 01:48
Black Head of the CIA
Are you sure? Are you sure? I can't believe you, mother . Ridiculous. Ridiculous. Me and Jeb just coming back from Africa. Cradle of .
- 02:24
Speaker 3
A sensitive accusation for this administration is the theory held by many that the real reason the U.S. is so interested in toppling sodom is control of the oil that Iraq is sitting on.
- 02:38
Reporter
What about people who say you're only interested in the Middle East for oil?
- 02:41
Black Bush
What? Huh? Oil? Who said something about oil, bitch? Are you cooking?
- 02:47
Speaker 2
President Bush met with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and made it clear the U.S. will act even if the UN is reluctant.
- 03:02
Black Bush
UN, you have a problem with that? You know You know what you should do? You should sanction me. Sanction me with your army. Oh, wait a minute. You don't have an army. I guess that means you need to shut the up. That's what I'd do if I don't have no army. I would shut the up. Shut the up.
- 03:23
Black Bush
You might speak 16 languages, but you gonna need them when you in Times Square selling fake hats. I know Gucci when I see it, nigga. I'm rich. I got a coalition of the willing. I got 40 nations ready to roll, son.
- 03:37
Reporter
Like who?
- 03:37
Black Bush
Who the said that?
- 03:39
Black Bush Cabinet Member
Huh?
- 03:40
Black Bush
Huh? Like, who? England. Japan's sending PlayStations. Spankonia said they're willing to drop bombs over Baghdad. Rigi Rao is coming. Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation. That means I am not doing this by myself, and I'm not disrespecting the U.N., even though they don't got no armor.
- 04:03
Black Bush
Go sell some medicine, bitches! I'm trying to get that all, uh, all.
- 04:14
Speaker 2
The U.S. fired the opening salvo in the war on Iraq with at least 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs centering on Baghdad.
- 04:23
Speaker 3
Good evening. Tonight, President George Bush is on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast. It will be the site of what is essentially his victory speech in the war against Iraq.
- 04:38
Black Bush
What did I say? I'm not gloating. But what did I say? Did I not say that we would win it? We rocked them bamboos. We rocked them. Nick, you see me coming on that plane? Shh.
- 04:52
For the second straight day, these hard-line Iraqis protested the American presence here.
- 04:58
Reporter
Mr. President, when do you think they'll hold general elections in Iraq?
- 05:02
Black Bush
Damn, I knew I shouldn't have called on this, Nick. I shouldn't have called on you because you're always trying to distract mother with things like the war and skirt all the real issues. GAY PEOPLE ARE GETTING MARRIED, FOLKS.
- 05:14
Black Bush Cabinet Member
YES.
- 05:16
Black Bush
NASTY. IMAGINE THAT, TWO WOMEN TOUCHING ON EACH OTHER'S TITTY BALLS, DRESSING THEM, GENTLY STROKING THOSE NIPPLES UNTIL THEY GET JUST SO STIFF AND ERECT, BLOWING ON HER.
- 05:33
Black Bush
BLUR. MEN, BARBECUE. I LIKE YOU. I LIKE YOU TOO, DOG. LET'S GET MARRIED, MAN. IT'S CRAZY.
- 05:43
WHAT ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP? That is gross!
- 05:49
Reporter
Mr. President, Mr. President, sir, how do you explain the continual upheaval in Iraq even after the capture of Saddam Hussein?
- 05:57
Black Bush
Why are you doing this, man? I thought she's my black brother. Why are you asking me questions like that? Fine, I'll answer your stupid-ass question. Here's how I feel about Iraq. I feel like you guys keep trying to distract people with Iraq when I'm focusing on other things, namely the moon. Yes, I said it, the moon.
- 06:15
Black Bush
can't be distracted what's going on with the war what's wrong with the economy stop worrying about that i got that under control let's focus on space the united states of space because i ain't stopping at the moon write this down m-a-r-s mars that's where we are going mars red rocks
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