To my knowledge, Dave is more or less based on Dave Burd’s journey to becoming Lil Dicky. So when the season one finale opened with a ten-minute long music video about Lil Dicky exposing his nutsack to a crowd of fans at a show, I totally bought it…until he was sentenced to jail time. I’m pretty sure if Lil Dicky went to jail for two years (let’s be honest, he would’ve been out in 8 months on good behavior) I would’ve heard about it. But I digress. The intro started losing me a little bit at the end if we’re being honest, so I think it would’ve done them good to have chopped off a couple of minutes and cut to the meeting, which is the true setting for this “masterpiece”, as Dave puts it. Let’s talk about that word…”masterpiece”. I think that even though Dave is a comedian, even he could see that a song about sucking a Mexican guy’s dick in prison wouldn’t be the easiest thing for a record company to market. For the first time all season, I was actually on the side of his manager, Mike. But, Dave wants total creative control, and he sure as hell doesn’t want a bunch of suits to tell him how to express his art, and I can respect that.
We then see Dave going over possible Lil Dicky logos with Emma, Ally’s roommate. As someone whose “job” it is to follow a show’s storyline (especially one as simple as Dave), I’ve gotta admit I’m pretty embarrassed to admit that I was totally shocked to realize that Dave and Ally had broken up. I guess Dave driving home alone in episode nine should’ve been a dead giveaway, but my dumb male brain assumed it was just a fight. Also, how long is it supposed to have been in between episodes nine and ten? Dave asks Emma if Ally is dating, and for a relationship of their length and seriousness, I’d have to assume that it’s been AT LEAST a few weeks or a month that they’ve been broken up. And if not, isn’t that super fast for someone to move on after a long-term relationship? I mean, what does it say about their relationship if she’s so willing to date the next shmuck who hits on her in the line at Starbucks? Dave should take that into careful consideration before they undoubtedly get back together.
Despite literally everyone in Dave’s inner circle thinking it’s a terrible idea, he decides, with the help of Benny Blanco (by far the best cameo role this season) that the best way for him to get what he wants is to perform his offensive masterpiece “Jail” on The Breakfast Club. Their thinking was that if people love the song, the record company will release the song and everything will be fine, but if people hate it, they’ll drop Lil Dicky from their label, giving him back his creative control – it’s a win-win! However, when he’s faced with the decision to play or not to play the song live on air, he takes a good hard (dramatic) look at Mike and GaTa, who had just backed him up on the show about being a serious rapper despite being an upper-middle-class raised Jewish guy from the suburbs. Ultimately, he decides to freestyle instead of playing “Jail”, and ends up spitting absolute FIRE, rapping about topics ranging from his weird dick to how he just broke up with his lady. It’s safe to say we’ll be greeted with a much more famous Lil Dicky in season two, and I can’t fucking wait.
Like I said earlier, a lot of Dave is based on Dave Burd’s real life, so I wondered if he was actually on The Breakfast Club at any point, so I YouTube’d it. It turns out he was, and I’ve got to say that as much as I was a fan of Dave Burd/Lil Dicky before watching this interview, my admiration for that man has grown exponentially after seeing him dodge religion bias like Patches O’Houlihan dodges a ball. I’m not sure how many Jewish jokes Charlemagne was allotted for this interview, but I’m pretty sure he surpassed whatever the limit was. I’m not an avid listener of The Breakfast Club, nor do I have any experience conducting interviews, but I’m pretty sure that centering every question around making fun of him for being Jewish (and a white rapper) isn’t good radio. It’s not lost on me that Lil Dicky’s whole shtick is the fact that he is a nerdy Jewish rapper, but that’s exactly what it is – a shtick. As he highlighted in the show, there’s a reason he introduces himself as Dave and not Lil Dicky…it’s satirical. But apparently Charlemagne’s remarks didn’t create any beef between the two since he was on the season finale. However, based on the video’s comments, I’m definitely not alone in thinking that Charlemagne’s jokes were in bad taste.
However, what The Breakfast Club interview showed me more than anything is that Lil Dicky is 100% authentic. The only difference is that unlike the Lil Dicky in Dave, he wasn’t willing to freestyle in real life, which might’ve hurt his street cred a little, but I’m sure a guy who openly talks about his small penis could care less about street cred. If anything, he gets more street cred for being so willing to talk about his shrimp dick. Aside from that, his personality matches exactly with who he’s portraying in Dave, and he’s in no way shying away from who he really is which in turn adds to the charm of the show. I’ll be counting the days until season two premieres.
