Lil Dicky admits to getting ghosted by celebrities who were supposed to shoot Dave
On a new episode of Hot Ones, Dave Burd reveals some truths behind his creative process
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By the third season of Dave, Dave Burd, a.k.a. Lil Dicky, was scoring major celebrity guests: Usher, Rachel McAdams, Drake, Don Cheadle, and Brad Pitt were just a few of the A-list names to grace his set. But it wasn’t always so easy, Burd admitted on a new episode of Hot Ones. And though he wasn’t willing to fully spill the tea, it sounds like he got ghosted a few times on his FX comedy.
“To be clear, I’m not going to name names, but there are several instances where episodes have been written about a particular celebrity, oftentimes it ends up being a rapper, and they don’t show up on the day. And then I immediately have to totally reimagine, rewrite the scene on the spot, call someone else, hope someone else is in town,” Burd shared.
“I’ve had to bring $20,000 in a backpack for whoever shows up that day and then I left that backpack at catering at lunch. And then I was like, shooting another scene and I was like, ‘Oh my God! My $20,000!’ And I sprinted to go get my backpack, it was still there. And then an artist came and actually didn’t even charge anything,” the comic rapper recalled. “Anyways, it’s very stressful. I think it’s much easier as time goes on, like, season one, I’m having to convince… I’m like, ‘YG, trust me!’ Season three I’m like, ‘Brad, I know you’ve seen it.’ It gets easier as time goes on.”
FX recently announced that Dave was going on hiatus so that Burd could focus on his music (“I feel more hunger as a rapper than I ever have. I feel like I’m like 2010 all over again and just needing to prove myself,” he explained on Hot Ones). However, in its three seasons, the show was a pretty accurate reflection of his experience coming up in the music industry, right down to flubbing his Freshman Class Freestyle for XXL Mag.
“Truthfully, that was my experience in my XXL Freestyle. Like, I messed it up 25 straight times. I truly fucked it up,” he said of the 2016 installment, performed alongside Desiigner and Anderson .Paak. “I’ve never felt that much heat and humiliation and embarrassment. But eventually I got it right, and that was the one everyone saw.”
“If you look at the YouTube comments, everyone’s like, ‘Lil Dicky killed that!’ … Now they know. But that’s the power of editing,” he added. “And I wanted to speak to that. It’s okay to fail. And that failure caused hopefully strength moving forward. But you know, it’s not always gonna be all roses and glory. Sometimes you’re gonna fuck up 25 straight times in front of the guys you idolize.”
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I like his music, but his character in Dave is so goddamn insufferable that it’s hard to enjoy the show. I’m much more interested in Gata.
I gave up once they started the storyline where they were going to have surgery performed on his dick during the MTV music video awards and everyone thought it was a great idea. But prior to that there were some really good episodes.
I very nearly gave up on the show when he and Benny Blanco started eating gum out of each other’s butts… but I’m glad I stuck with it. The last season was fantastic.
As someone who doesn’t know who this guy is and has not seen (or even heard of) the show, your post was about the most baffling and hilarious thing to read. Don’t think I’ll be seeking it out based on that description, but it brightened my morning.
And it’s a real episode! lol
it really is a damn funny show. and as crazy as it sounds, most of the stuff in the show is at least loosely based on his real life as an up & coming rapper. there are some truly weird moments, definitely that episode with benny blanco is at the top (apparently their real life friendship is very much like this), but it is really good.
The whole last episode was amazing.Good to see Chloe Bennett still getting work after that PPG debacle too.
that 2nd season got waayyyy off into the weirdness, but s3 brought it back nicely. season 1 is a goddamn masterpiece.
that MTV MVA s02 finale is so damn uplifting though, probably highest emotional moment in the show.
I like how Sean Evans dumped that stupid porn star he was dating. It’s cool to put women in their place and treat them with zero respect. Typical woman wanted to be a famewhore and use him for clicks. Nice try biatch. Now Sean can move onto a new hole.
So sick of “badass” “boss” culture. Love a little bit of sober humility.
How is it a freestyle if you do it 25 times in a row?
In that XXL Freestyle, it might have taken him 25 times… but it seems like the other two were just like “first take, good enough”
rappers be like i get there when i get there lol