as far as dave chapelle, i consider dave chapelle one of the best comedians around.and chris rock to me are one of the top three from my point of view. and, again, it's subjective. but i'm not sure or dave chapelle wasn't a success. did he not leave because -- >> he walked away. >> he did not want to. i watched that show, and be i know that students in a class that i teach on comedy, on african-american comedy, white and black students love dave chapelle. dave chapelle was one of the most popular comedians there. they understand him much more than richard pryor so he was, i think, getting across. i think they understood that in a way because he was able to take part of this mtv shock value presentation and combine it with something that richard pryor was doing which was more black in nature. dave chapelle can be black or go very articulate on you. he can do both things. and, therefore, he was able to, he was able to deal with various new woonses -- nuances of the comedy in different way. >> i actually agree with that. i show it in college classrooms. the problem, i t

dave is a minister with indoor- outdoor wedding chapels in his long island home.f death. >> really it adds a highlight to their wedding album. well, bill, this is houdini central. >> reporter: oh, my god. mild mannered rev. david adamovich is also the great throw-dini, master of the impalement arts. >> it's my stage name as a knife thrower. >> reporter: his attic is a cutler emu seem complete with a practice range. >> i've studied and analyzed and research the flight of a knife. i've done it with high speed videos, 60-frame per second stuff. i've done it with radar. >> reporter: he'd been intensely training to scale the mount everest of knife throwing. >> wow. what am i hitting. >> reporter: the veiled wheel of death in which the spinning wheel and the woman on board are completely obscured from the knife thrower. >> oops. one collision. i don't think i hit the girl. >> reporter: ready or not it was time to attempt the feat in a show at a long island university. throw-dini quickly changed back stage. he had stopped along the way to perform a marriage. >> man of cl