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So Dave Chappelle surprised Portland by showing up for a 1 a.m. show at Pioneer Square early this morning/late last night.  There was no sound and no one could hear anything, but still.  Dave Chappelle impromptu in Portland.  By all accounts it was exciting/disappointing.

According to Entertainment Weekly, “Chappelle repeatedly praised the peaceful crowd for coming out, cracking a few jokes about the chaotic scene around him, including people (in various stages of undress) congregating up on rooftops at the square.”

Chappelle’s been MIA for five years and yet he still can draw a crowd like this at 1 a.m. on a Tuesday night in Portland.  Damn straight. Wish I coulda been there, but I was too tired to make the trek down there and it was supposedly a rumor.  Damn rumors that are true.

Here are some great photos of the night and a great account from someone who was like 10-feet away.  [via]

Yeah, we all thought he was crazy, maybe crazy with a double “a,” when the funnyman walked out of $50 million and a hit television show on Comedy Central. He disappeared, maybe went to Africa, and then resurfaced on Oprah, Inside the Actors Studio and threw himself a Block Party in Brooklyn with Michel Gondry. And we sighed with relief that Dave Chappelle was in fact not crazy.

Until we got word of his SIX HOUR set at the famed Laugh Factory last Sunday. Yeah, the dude did standup for more than six hours.

“He was absolutely amazing, for six hours making people laugh,” the club’s owner, Jamie Masada, said Tuesday.

Masada said the previous record of three hours and 50 minutes was accomplished earlier this month by Dane Cook. But until then the mark had stood at two hours and 41 minutes since Richard Pryor set it in 1980.

Well maybe he isn’t the biggest anymore, but no one has more endurance than Chappelle. Not even Sting.