Clayton Bigsby first appeared in the premiere episode of Chappelle's Show on Comedy Central in 2003, played by co-creator Dave Chappelle. The sketch presented Bigsby as a blind white supremacist author who does not know he is Black, a premise built entirely on dramatic irony. It became one of the series' most quoted sketches and helped establish the show's reputation for sharp racial satire. Short lines from the performance still circulate as soundboard clips and reaction audio, long after the series ended in 2006.