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EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central has given a pilot order to D-Raw, a sketch comedy show executive produced by Chris Rock and starring young comedian Deshawn Raw who described himself as, “Just a new comedian trying to make it out the hood with the team. So we don’t end up statistics.” The show is comprised of sketches featuring Deshawn and his diverse group of friends based on their personal experiences as they make fun of themselves and their lives in Rancho Cucamonga. The sketches include rap battles and the guys’ take on all things pop culture. The latter should be familiar to fans of DeShawn Raw who became a YouTube star with his Rap Battle videos. The first video in the series (below) has garnered 13.5 million viewers. Rap Battle Pt. 4 featuring Chris Rock (second video), has amassed 2.9 million. Rock and DeShawn Raw executive produce D-Raw with DeShawn Raw’s creative partner JP Minot, who will direct the pilot.
In addition to D-Raw, Rock also executive produces FX’s upcoming weekly late-night series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. The series starring comedian W. Kamau Bell premieres on Aug. 9. Rock, Deshawn Raw and Minot are repped by ICM Partners.
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Rock, paper, scissors. Brilliant!
Brilliant?! – you gotta be kidin’. This is gawd awful. Must appeal to those who view blk culture as entertainment. I wonder who that could be?
Dude, the 18th century called…
Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn…cricket, cricket, cricket….. R.I.P. Urban Comedy!
That’s the sound of 10,000 white people saying: “I don’t get it.”
I’m as white as it gets, not a huge fan of hip-hop, and yet I found that hilarious.
Let’s just keep hyping mediocrity. Because we’ve been doing it for the last 4 years.
Seriously, I’ve seen Nick Cannon do better shit than this.
These guys have something. I didn’t know what to expect, but it made me laugh. Those guys have chemistry and a original voice in comedy. I get why Chris Rock is in business with them.
I imagine everyone commenting on this site is at least a decade older than the core demo and probably watches YT only when a friend sends a link. In other words, your opinion is worthless. I would comment on the content but I’m not a rapper.
Chris Rock has made it well known – known even on set – that he thinks whites are a joke – and to him, are to be called ‘white boys’ when he’s being generous. (who know what white women get called – doubt so much it’s nice) He continues his white men are beneath contempt schtick. (whites are ignorant and incapable of being up to the minute by his standard) I think a racist should stop being called funny just because we’re coerced to say so.
I watched the first vid. It’s very meta, very bro. A large part of the joke is non-joke telling, only giving frames and allusions.
That said, does it work as parody? Not really for me. For its target audience? Possibly, but I can see people who like Chappelle and Kevin Hart getting irritated by it. For that matter, I can see Chappelle and Hart getting pissed, too. Why? It’s too under-developed, too smarmily and lazily off-the-cuff. It just doesn’t come from enough mastery of straight comedic technique to bend rules like this.
I’m not all that sure of how Kamau’s show is going to come off, either. He’s smart and insightful as a guy–very–but I’ve seen his stand-up twice now and his observations aren’t provocative or sharp. He’s a comedic functionary who’s never LOL funny. For a black intellectual, he’s kinda Mark Russell-esque in his political and cultural insights. And his life stories come across as just plain phony. If he were even just a little goofy, he’d be better. But he’s not.
I like what Rock and Comedy Central are attempting, but these guys need to go to clown college. They’re just not funny enough.
And Nick Cannon is seriously underrated. So is Kel Mitchell. They both have great timing.
Kevin Hart? The king of “it’s not getting a laugh, so I’ll say it louder?”
I’m all about new young comedians getting a shot, but this just isn’t funny. Clearly, without Chris Rock’s name attached as a producer, this “show” doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting made. Call me nostalgic, but I really miss Dave Chappelle.
I’d suggest to go watch his YouTube videos and then decide how funny he is
What deshawn raw does is for a different age group about around 13- 25 so of course some people aren’t gonna get it