A partial list of then-topical references in For What It's Worth (Chappelle's live stand-up at The Fillmore in SF):
Kobe Bryant's rape trial
Michael Jackson's molestation trial
R. Kelly
Elizabeth Smart
Usher
Awesome.
My favorite current example, for both content and diction, from David Foster Wallace's (unsurprisingly) excellent essay "David Lynch Keeps His Head":
"...somebody the script identifies only as 'The Mystery Man,' who claims [...] that he's actually there at their house ~right now~, and he apparently is, because he pulls out a cellular (the movie's full of great LA touches, like everybody having a cellular) and invites..."
Posted by: Nate at April 25, 2007 01:26 PM