A literary odd couple: the Maya & Dave show.

The Sundance Channel's Iconoclasts series surely came up with a match one would not think was made in heaven when it put poet Maya Angelou and comedian Dave together for an episode in late November.

The six-part, weekly, primetime series produced by Robert Redford, features leaders from different fields discussing "their passions and creative processes." The Maya-Dave segment is expected to be repeated.

Chappelle said of Angelou: "She has probably written more books than I have read ... she is talking about people she knew like, 'I was with my dear friend Malcolm' and ... I am thinking Jamal Warner, and she is talking about Malcolm X ... Very few people I meet are national treasures. She is beyond that, she is iconic."

Angelou of Chappelle: "I think that Dave Chappelle and I are soul mates. He thinks quite profoundly ... He is so intelligent, and he doesn't want people to know [that] ... He looks at an ordinary thing, and he turns it a little to the side, twists it, and it becomes funny."

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