Birds are chirping outside, which means it is Spring, here in Los Angeles. The city has managed to swerve past back-to-back rain showers making the perfect day for Travis Bennett and I to chop it up about his newest season of FX Network’s, Dave.
The first two episodes of the zany comedy series dropped on April 5. Dave is a scripted retelling of Lil Dicky’s claim-to-fame story in the music world as an off-the-wall character who manages to break into the industry with rap punchlines targeted at himself. In its third season, the semi-biographical comedy feels even more meta considering Dave Burd’s off-camera stage persona and Travis Bennett’s former alias coming up in the scene with Odd Future as “Taco.”
“It was hard in the beginning [to let go of Taco], sometimes…even now, it’s kind of a battle between the two,” Bennett admits with zeal of this evolutionary part of his career to ESSENCE. “That was a crazy whole identity moment for me but I’m really happy that I did change because I was too worried about people that knew who I was instead of being worried about the people who don’t.”
Bennett plays Elz on the hit FX series, the DJ/wise-cracking confidant to the titular rapper, Dave — portrayed by artist Lil Dicky (Dave Burd). The opening episodes of the season concern Dave having hiccups in the relationship department when he is hoping to find a lover for a lifetime, (not with a fan). Elz and Dave go on tour, traveling humbly from one small show to the next. With the unexpected taking place,…
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