Dave Chappelle Strikes Back At Hartford, Conn.

Dave Chappelle has struck back at Hartford five days after he was heckled at a show and refused to perform his set.

According to audio posted on TMZ.com, Chappelle praises an audience in Chicago on Tuesday for being “so much better than Hartford.” He tells the crowd that if North Korea were to drop a bomb on the U.S., he hopes it “lands in Hartford, Connecticut.”

To cheers and laughter, he says he “wouldn’t even go back to Hartford for … gas.”

Photo: Brian Bohannon, file/AP
Attending a reception at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky.

Chappelle was the headliner last Thursday in Hartford at the , which is touring the country.