Dave Chappelle’s Net Worth (Updated 2022)!

One of America’s best-known entertainers, Dave Chappelle, is worth $60 million. Dave has acted in numerous films and television shows throughout the years, but he is most known for his numerous standup specials. The majority of Dave’s fortune comes from his Netflix standup specials.

Infancy and Adolescence

‘David Khari Webber Chappelle’ was given the date of August 24, 1973, in Washington, DC, and raised there. William David Chappelle III and Yvonne Chappelle Seon were both professors at the time of his birth. Allen University was founded by his great-grandfather, Bishop D. Chappelle, who served as its president.

Chappelle grew up in the Maryland city of Silver Spring. He grew up idolizing Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor, and his family’s acquaintances, who were entertained by Dave’s funny antics and monologues, frequently remarked that Dave would most certainly go on to become a stand-up comedian.

Chappelle’s parents divorced while he was a child, and he spent the majority of his childhood with his mother, with summers spent with his father in Ohio. He received his bachelor’s degree in 1991 from the Duke Ellington School of the Art, where he had previously studied drama.

Career

After high school, Dave relocated to New York City to pursue a career in stand-up comedy and stand-up comedy. He made his debut at the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night (and was booed off the stage), but he quickly established himself on the New York comedy circuit regardless of the negative reception.

In 1992, he made an appearance on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, where he received both critical and popular acclaim for his act. This marked a watershed moment in his career, and he went on to appear on late-night talk shows such as Late Show with David Letterman, The Howard Stern Show, and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, among others. At the age of 19, he opened for Aretha Franklin with a stand-up comedy act.

Chappelle made his feature film debut at the age of twenty in the Mel Brooks comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights, which he appeared in for the first time in 1993.

Chappelle then moved on to other film roles (including a small role in the Eddie Murphy-starring feature film The Nutty Professor in 1996 and co-writing and starring in the stoner film Half Baked in 1998) and tried his hand at several failed television pilots before launching his own show, Chappelle’s Show, on Comedy Central in 2003.

Chappelle’s Show is a sketch comedy show that airs on Comedy Central. While the show was enormously popular and ran for two successful seasons while also being nominated for two Emmy Awards, it was suddenly canceled during the production of its third season, however, Comedy Central subsequently broadcast the episodes that were produced without Chappelle’s participation.

Chappelle cited his dissatisfaction with the direction the program was taking, the fact that he was overworked with 20-hour workdays, and the fact that he did not have enough time to devote to his stand-up career as reasons for his decision to leave. The termination of the show resulted in the cancellation of a $50 million dollar deal with Comedy Central.

In 2004, Michel Gondry filmed Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, a documentary about a rap event held by Chappelle in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, which was accompanied by a number of rap and hip-hop acts, including a reunion of The Fugees, which was directed by Chappelle himself.

Comeback

Between 2005 and 2013, Dave experimented with a variety of stand-up performances and television show appearances before making a huge professional comeback in the fall of 2013. He returned to the stage as the star of his own stand-up tours.

Earlier this year, he performed ten nights at the Radio City Music Hall, marking his return to the New York City circuit for the first time in 11 years. On November 12, 2016, the weekend following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election, Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in history.

After his insightful and scathing opening monologue and subsequent sketch performance were widely applauded and enjoyed by the audience, he was honored with an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work. He gave his Emmy to his alma mater, which he attended in high school.

Deal with Netflix

Earlier this year, Netflix announced that Dave had secured a deal to produce three standup specials for the service. For the specials, Dave was reportedly paid $60 million, one of the highest agreements ever paid to any medium by a comic. $47 million was Dave’s annual salary from June 2016 to June 2017. Dave made $35 million between June 2017 and June 2018.

Accolades and Accomplishments Continue

A career that has been long and often hard-fought-for has proven to be fruitful for Chappelle.

For his first two Netflix specials, The Age of Spin and Deep in the Heart of Texas, he won a Grammy Award in 2018 for Best Comedy Album. Additionally, his Equanimity special received a Grammy and an Emmy in the category of Outstanding Variety Program. “Sticks & Stones” won him his third Grammy in a row in 2020.

In the Bradley Cooper film “A Star is Born,” Dave reprised his role as Noodles, his best friend from high school. The film was a huge success and won numerous important prizes and nominations.

He performed three standup concerts with Aziz Ansari in Austin, Texas, in 2018 as part of a pair comedy tour with Jon Stewart and Chris Chapelle. The Kennedy Center awarded him this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which he received in April of this year.

Life at Home

Elaine Mendoza Erfe has been married to Chappelle since 2001. The couple has three children together; two sons, Sulayman and Ibrahim; and a daughter, Sanea. Near Yellow Springs, Ohio, the family owns a 65-acre farm. In addition, Chappelle owns a number of properties in the city of Xenia, Ohio.

In 1998, Dave turned to Islam. In the 2020 presidential race, he endorsed Andrew Yang. During the summers, Dave volunteers at the Maine-based Seeds of Peace International Camp. It is a non-profit that brings together young people from formerly divided neighborhoods.

A star-studded line-up, including Stevie Wonder and Chance the Rapper, was put together by him for the Gem City Shine Charity Concert in Dayton, Ohio, in August 2019. The Oregon District Tragedy Fund received over $70,000 as a result of the August 4, 2019, Dayton shooting benefit concert.