Oscars 2018: 16 WTF Moments

12. Dave Chappelle Actually Showed Up

Oscars 2018 Dave Chappelle
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It was pretty surprising to see legendary comedian Dave Chappelle make an appearance at the Oscars, showing up to introduce Common and Andra Day's performance of Marshall's "Stand Up for Something".

After all, Chappelle tends to keep an incredibly low-profile these days when he's not got a new stand-up special coming to Netflix, and considering the controversy caused by some of his recent stand-up comments about the trans community, it's actually pretty surprising that Oscar producers risked bringing him aboard.

Still, it was hilarious to see him thank the audience for their "smattering of applause", before earnestly referring to activism as a "thankless job". It was undeniably weird to see him on the Oscar stage the same year that the first ever transgender presenter (Daniela Vega) also took the stage, but a cool moment all the same.

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