Controversial, mistakenly-thought-to-be-canceled comedians Dave Chappelle and Louis CK are among the many Grammy Award nominees this 12 months for Finest Comedy Album.
They’ll go up towards Grammy stalwarts Jim Gaffigan and Patton Oswalt, and newcomer Randy Rainbow.
Chappelle, who hosted Saturday Night time Dwell final weekend to appreciable push-back on his opening monologue about antisemitism, is nominated for the comedy album model of his Netflix particular The Nearer, which incorporates the jokes concerning the transgender neighborhood that prompted GLAAD to state “Chappelle’s model has turn out to be synonymous with ridiculing trans individuals.”
Chappelle has been beforehand nominated for 3 Comedy Album Grammys, profitable every time: 2018’s Dave Chappelle: The Age of Spin; 2019’s Dave Chappelle: Equanimity & The Chook Revelation; and
2020’s Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones. He shared the Finest Spoken Phrase album in 2022 with Amir Sulaiman for 8:46.
CK’s Sorry, the album of his taped August 2021 performances at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard, additionally drew some backlash for what some perceived because the title’s flippant response to the 2017 sexual misconduct allegations towards the comic. (CK gained final 12 months’s Grammy within the Comedy Album class for his Sincerely Louis CK).
Along with Sincerely Louis CK, the comedian beforehand gained Grammys on this class for Hilarious (2012); and Dwell at Madison Sq. Backyard (2016). He was nominated in 2015 for Oh My God.
Gaffigan’s nomination for his Comedy Monster album marks the comedian’s seventh Grammy nomination (most up-to-date was 2021’s The Pale Vacationer), tying him with Oswalt, nominated for We All Scream (he additionally nominated in 2021 for I Love Every little thing; Oswalt gained the Grammy in 2017 for his Speaking For Clapping).
New to the class is Rainbow, whose nominated first studio album A Little Brains, A Little Expertise was launched final 12 months following his Pink Glasses Tour and consists of variations of a few of his YouTube political satire spoofs, unique songs and a model of “The Jitterbug,” the famously deleted music from The Wizard of Oz. The album additionally options visitor stars Tituss Burgess, Josh Gad, Sean Hayes, Patti LuPone and Bernadette Peters.
The Grammy nominees for Finest Comedy Album are:
The Nearer, Dave Chappelle
Comedy Monster, Jim Gaffigan
A Little Brains, A Little Expertise, Randy Rainbow
Sorry, Louis CK
We All Scream, Patton Oswalt
