Once, when asked what he'd do if he were mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, he replied, I'd do photo ops with Marilyn Manson and underprivileged children while my contributors continued to dump toxic waste in the rivers of Third World nations, then go home and do lines off the bare back of my 19-year-old Malaysian concubine.
When asked, Chestnut claims his comedy is imported at great expense from a left-handed cobbler in Sussex, England, who answers to the name "King Cat Crocodile, Hector The Fuel Injector."
Also in 1999, Chestnut was invited to perform in the first of two Comics Come Home special events sponsored by Charter Communications and Comedy Central, the proceeds of which were to benefit the Chris Farley Foundation.
He persevered, however, and cites eventual popular disenchantment with the Occupation of Iraq as the reason for more positive reactions to later, similar criticism.
In May 2004, Chestnut recorded his first CD at The Comedy Club on State,[3] entitled I Was Funny... Now Pay Me, written and performed by himself, and produced by Austin Katt.