It was a packed house for the Rated Raw Comedy Show on Thursday, Nov. 7. The production featured Arnez J., Adele Givens, and as the main headliner, Dave Chapelle.

Arnez J., best known for his comedy routines on the Black Entertainment Television channel, commented on the crowd. “This is a big, diverse audience. Black and white, I love it!”

Arnez’s act is physical and full of energy and the audience loved it.

He performed a request of one of his old routines about every black person having an uncle that wore pants all the way up to his chest. The crowd laughed as if they knew someone like that.

Adele Givens, seen on “Def Comedy Jam” and a member of the Queens of Comedy, performed her routine in her often raunchy, tell-it-like-it-is style. She suggested to the ladies to do whatever crazy things they thought about doing.

Givens also talked about women’s obsession with buying designer clothes and accessories. “I have rules for my money. The rules for my purse is, I’ve got to have inside that purse at all times, at least the amount I paid for it. Some women have a $500 purse, with nothing but $12.13.”

She also made jokes about the crimes people committed and celebrities getting in trouble. Dionne Warwick’s arrest for smuggling weed on a plane was one of her subjects. “She had 11 joints in her lipstick container,” Givens said with mock surprise. “That was a big-ass lipstick container, “’cause I can’t get but 10 in mine.”

Headliner Dave Chapelle came out and delivered a routine in his trademark laidback style. He ironically mentioned that he hasn’t been in Florida for a while and that “it’s nice to be back,” alluding to when he was supposed to have performed at FAU for the past two years.

He brought up a time when he mistakenly called a Korean man Chinese. The man asked him if he looked Chinese and Chapelle said yes. This brought him to say, “There are people that think all black people look alike. We like to call those people police.”

Chapelle told a funny story about how he was held hostage on a bus by a masturbating homeless man. Since everyone else stayed silent, Chappelle couldn’t resist the urge to say, “Come on dog, you’re hitting my elbow.”

Someone in the audience started to yell out Sir Smoke-a-lot, which was Chapelle’s character in the movie Half Baked. He replied, “That was thousands of blunts ago.” He announced that he is too old to be smoking weed now and claimed to be suffering from “weed reflexes.”

He asked the audience, “Have you ever smoked and realized that you don’t like your friends?” The crowd answered him with howls of laughter.

“I’ve been smoking with them for five years and still don’t know what they look like.”