Chappelle's Show

[Krangodnzr]

Anyone else watch it? Hilarious if you're into that kind of humor.

 

[FischerKing]

Anyone else watch it? Hilarious if you're into that kind of humor.

I catch it ever now again - my favorite skit by him is when he plays the leader of that White Supremist group - hilarious.

Shawn

 

[Evil Ash]

Anyone else watch it? Hilarious if you're into that kind of humor.

Absolutely love the show.

Favorite skits so far:

• The black white supremist
• The R Kelly "I want to piss on you" video

and for those who watched last week's show ... Knee High Junction (the skit with the puppets basically making fun of Sesame Street)

I make love to my hand
and that ain't funny
I beat that ****
like it owes me money

 

[FischerKing]

I finally watched Undercover Brother on Saturday and he was hilarious in that as well - too funny.

"George Washington Carver made the first computer out of a peanut - a peanut" - rotfl

Shawn

 

[CaptTurbo]

One of the best skits was the reality show skit when they had 1 white guy and all brothers in the house, they did his girlfriend in an orgy, stabbed his dad and then he was the first one booted off. I was ROLLING!!

 

[mdamien13]

His Rick James impersonation was the best.

"What'd the five fingers say to the face? SLAP! I'm Rick James, ********!"

His Prince impersonation had me rolling, too.

 

[Krangodnzr]

Charlie Murphy's real Hollywood stories are my favorites.

The Rick James story was hilarious, as well as the Prince story.

 

[Krangodnzr]

His Prince impersonation had me rolling, too.

Shirts vs. blouses!

 

[pack2112]

Anyone else watch it? Hilarious if you're into that kind of humor.

My girlfriend is a huge fan of Chappelle. Ever since Half Baked. He is just freakin' hilarious.

 

[Assface]

A day in the life of Lil Jon is great. That and the dangers of keepin it real.

I totally forgot about his R Kelly video. That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen on television.

 

[Ryanwb]

Dave Chapelle was awesome as Jewels in Pulp Fiction

 

[Gee!]

Almost exactly 1 year ago, me and my friend (who had long hair at the time), were driving back from Firebird Raceway from watching the top fuels. Taking the I-10 home, we spotted Chapelle's tour bus. It was pretty obvious it was him, since the bus was painted with his face and the words "Chappele is inside". Anyway, I speed up and got next to the bus and started honking. My friend gets crazy waving not like a groupie, but enough to be noticed. We were laughing cuz we did this for about 3 miles. We were thinking about what Chapelle was thinking. Prolly....."crazy crackas"!

 

[Freddie]

Dave Chappelle

Is anyone else going to his show next Thursday?

 

[100%CardsFan]

I want to so bad but it is sold out already, I might try to get scalpled tickets, Any idea what scalpers would be charging?

 

[Freddie]

At the least you'd probably see balcony seats around 65 a piece. I'm sitting in the first row on the balcony and paid 33.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Chappelle Reportedly Checks Into Facility
Yahoo News
Wednesday May 11, 2005

Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian's whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed and production halted.

Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.

"We don't know where he is," Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. "We've heard about South Africa. We don't know. We haven't talked to Dave."

Chappelle's spokesman, Matt Labov, would not comment on the magazine's story.

"It seems like the issues he's contending with are really quite serious," said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. "It isn't a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion."

The magazine's sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, which was not named, Hayes said. Chappelle's representatives have denied that the comedian was abusing drugs.

Chappelle reportedly signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central for two more seasons of his show, a payday made possible because of the explosive sales of the show's first season DVD.

The magazine said Chappelle had shot four to five episodes' worth of sketches for the new season, but none of its onstage introductions.

 

[JPlay]

It's drugs

 

[Siberian Man]

wow

hope he's okay

 

[vince56]

It's drugs

Maybe not. Entertainers are rarely stable (as I've witnessed with countless musicians), and maybe the stress is getting to him. That 2nd season of Chappelle's show was unbelieveably funny, and maybe he just can't handle the stress of having to follow up with something as good if not better. I mean, it's the first really successful venture he's ever had, and he's never had to follow up a successful production with any kind of sequel.

Just my $.02

 

[Cheesebeef]

Entertainers are rarely stable (as I've witnessed with countless musicians)

Entertainers (GREAT ONES) are also notorious drug addicts (whether it be coke, booze, you name it) - especially comic geniuses - it's been the case with almost EVERYONE supremely talented since drugs came on the scene in the 70's. Robin Williams, Chevy Chase, Belushi, Akroyd, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Farley - all of them - substance abuse problems when they really started hitting the big time - it's because large personalities can't take ANYTHING in moderation - at least that's my theory.

 

[Renz]

Entertainers (GREAT ONES) are also notorious drug addicts (whether it be coke, booze, you name it) - especially comic geniuses - it's been the case with almost EVERYONE supremely talented since drugs came on the scene in the 70's.

Even before that when you look at performers like Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker, Lenny Bruce etc.

 

[Pariah]

Entertainers (GREAT ONES) are also notorious drug addicts (whether it be coke, booze, you name it) - especially comic geniuses - it's been the case with almost EVERYONE supremely talented since drugs came on the scene in the 70's. Robin Williams, Chevy Chase, Belushi, Akroyd, Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Farley - all of them - substance abuse problems when they really started hitting the big time - it's because large personalities can't take ANYTHING in moderation - at least that's my theory.

So, there were no drugs in the 60's? I agree with you that many, many of the super-talented were abusers, but you do have other comedians that were just as talented in their own right, and didn't abuse drugs (that we know of): the two that jump to mind immediately are Cosby and Skelton.

Granted there are so many more that have a history with drugs than don't. Thankfully guys like Murray seemed to have survived their self-destructive phase and are still producing great comedy. Others seemed to have had their funnybone numbed when not gooped up on glop like Chase.

 

[Cheesebeef]

So, there were no drugs in the 60's? I agree with you that many, many of the super-talented were abusers, but you do have other comedians that were just as talented in their own right, and didn't abuse drugs (that we know of): the two that jump to mind immediately are Cosby and Skelton.

Granted there are so many more that have a history with drugs than don't. Thankfully guys like Murray seemed to have survived their self-destructive phase and are still producing great comedy. Others seemed to have had their funnybone numbed when not gooped up on glop like Chase.

oh yeah - throw in Richard Pryor too. And it's that there weren't drugs in the 60's - but I'm talking about what seems to be the drug of choice for most high-wire comedians - and that is coke/crystal - that one - while around forever didn't really get into the forefront until the 70's.

Also - if you look at the comedy of Cosby (don't know Skelton) and the other guys mentioned - it's s different breed of humor - and completely different personalities - Cos was always grounded for the most part - HILARIOUS - but grounded. The guys I was referring to (of which I put Chapelle in their group) are what I refer to as high-wire comedians/performers.

It's just a theory.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Dave Chappelle Says He's Not Crazy
Sunday May 15 10:06 AM ET

Comedian Dave Chappelle wants to set things straight: "I'm not crazy, I'm not smoking crack," he tells Time magazine in an interview more than a week after his hit Comedy Central show was suspended and the rumors started to fly.

"I'm definitely stressed out," said Chappelle, who took off last month to South Africa for a "spiritual retreat," leaving his fans and even his agent and publicist wondering where he went.

"You hear so many voices jockeying for position in your mind that you want to make sure that you hear your own voice," he said. "So I figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as the brakes."

After Comedy Central announced that the planned May 31 debut of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported that Chappelle had checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa.

"I'm not in a mental facility," said Chappelle, who also said he did not have a drug problem but had consulted a psychiatrist for one 40-minute visit.

The 31-year-old comedian said he fled to stay with friends in Durban because he wasn't happy with the direction of the show, which is behind only "South Park" as Comedy Central's most-watched program.

"There's a lot of resistance to my opinions, so I decided, 'Let me remove myself from this situation,'" Chappelle said.

Comedy Central president Doug Herzog told Time that the star has "complete creative freedom." He has told staff he believes there won't be a "Chappelle's Show" in 2005, but leaves the option open for the comedian's return.

Chappelle, whose wife and two children live in Ohio, said he hopes to start up the show again, but did not indicate when he would return.

Comedy Central had inked a reported $50 million deal to keep "Chappelle's Show" for two more seasons, and the comedian hinted to Time about struggles associated with the power and fame that come with that kind of success.

"If you don't have the right people around you, and you're moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself," he said. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius, you're great, that's your voice,' but I'm not sure that they're right."

 

[Djaughe]

Where is Dave Chappelle?

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On the Beach With Dave Chappelle

In South Africa, TIME's Simon Robinson talks with the comic about his sudden disappearance from Chappelle's Show

Posted Sunday, May. 15, 2005

In this week's TIME, Christopher John Farley reveals why Dave Chappelle decided to leave his hit show and what he's been up to since he disappeared to South Africa two weeks ago. Last Friday night, TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Simon Robinson met with the comic at uShaka Marine World on the beach in the South African port of Durban. In a ninety minute conversation, Chappelle was eager to set the record straight on why he suddenly left the U.S. and what he's doing in South Africa. Here's Robinson's account:

Dave Chappelle shows up to our interview in a red t-shirt, blue jeans and shiny white sneakers. He lopes around in his usual style, pacing a lot, but does not seem like a man struggling to speak or to order his thoughts at all. He's lucid and thoughtful and a couple of times asks me to give him some time to think about answers. He concedes that he is dealing with a lot of issues and mentions that he had consulted a psychiatrist about a week ago for a forty minute session. He is also quite fastidious about keeping his new sneakers clean and stops at least twice to wipe smudges off their toes.

The first thing Chappelle wants is to dispel rumors—that he's got a drug problem, that he's checked into a mental institution in Durban—that have been flying around the U.S. for the past week. He says he is staying with a friend, Salim Domar, and not in a mental institution, as has been widely reported in America. Chappelle says he is in South Africa to find "a quiet place" for a while. "Let me tell you the things I can do here which I can't at home: think, eat, sleep, laugh. I'm an introspective dude. I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. And I've been doing a lot of thinking here."

The picture he paints—and it seems a fairly honest and frank assessment— is of someone struggling to come to terms with a new position and power who's still figuring out how to come to grips with how people around him are reacting to the $50 million deal he signed last year with Comedy Central. Without naming specific characters, he seems to blame both some of his inner circle (not his family) and himself for the stresses created by last year's deal.

"There were things that overwhelmed me," he says. "But not in the way that people are saying. I haven't spent any of the money. All that stuff about partying and taking crack is not true. Why do I live on a farm in Ohio? To support my partying lifestyle?"

The problems, he says, started with his inner circle."If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself," he says. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius!'; 'You're great!'; 'That's your voice!' But I'm not sure that they're right." And he stresses that Comedy Central was not part of the problem and put no more than normal television restrictions on what he could do.

"You got to be careful of the company you keep," Chappelle says. "It's hard to know how much to say. One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

"During my ascent, I've seen other people go through that wall to become really big. They always said that fame didn't change them but that it changes the people around them. You always hear that but you never really understand it. But now that I'm there that makes a lot of sense and I'm learning what that means. You have to have people around you that you can trust and aren't just out for a meal ticket."

The breakdown in trust within his inner circle seems to have led him to question the material they were producing. He seems obsessed with making sure the material is good and honest and something that he will be proud. "I want to make sure I'm dancing and not shuffling," he says. "What ever decisions I make right now I'm going to have live with. Your soul is priceless." The first two seasons of his show "had a real spirit to them," he says. "I want to make sure whatever I do has spirit."

But Chappelle also says that he must share the blame for the stalled third season. "I'm admittedly a human being," he says. "I'm a difficult kind of dude." His earlier walkout during shooting "had a little psychological element to it. I have trust issues, things like that. I saw some stuff in myself that I just didn't dig. It's like when I brought a girl home to my mom and it looked as if my mom really didn't like this girl. And she told me, 'I like her just fine. I just don't like you around her.' That's how I feel in this situation. There were some things about myself that I didn't like. People got to take inventory from time to time. That's what this [coming to South Africa] is for."

This is Chappelle's second trip to South Africa. He first came to Durban, and visited Salim, in 2000. Chappelle won't tell me exactly how he met Salim but describes him as a family friend. A soft-spoken Muslim, Salim seems also to be something of a sounding board to Chappelle, who converted to Islam several years ago. While Chappelle is not doing a formal religious course in Durban, says Salim, who wore a simple cotton robe and hung back through the interview and photo shoot and only spoke when I asked him a question, "if he wants to talk religion then I'm there as someone to talk to." Says Chappelle: "This is kind of my spot where I can come to fill my spirit back up. Sometimes you neglect these things if you are running on a corporate schedule." The crux of his crisis seems to boil down to his almost obsessive need to "check my intentions." He uses the phrase a few times during the interview and explains that it means really making sure that he's doing what he's doing for the right reasons.

His family, he says, has been a huge support over the past eight months. "They've been phenomenal really, just incredible. What beautiful people. Everyone loves their family but it's good if you can like them too."

His religion is also crucial. "I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is a beautiful religion if you learn it the right way. It's a lifelong effort. Your religion is your standard. Coming here I don't have the distractions of fame. It quiets the ego down. I'm interested in the kind of person I've got to become. I want to be well rounded and the industry is a place of extremes. I want to be well balanced. I've got to check my intentions, man."

That includes planning for the future. When I ask him if he would ever buy a place of his own in South Africa, Chappelle replies, "First of all I've got to make sure I've got a job."

He says that he's only been recognized five or six times in the two weeks he's been here. "It happens so sporadically that when it does it freaks me out because I have to remember, 'Oh, yeah, I'm famous.'" At the end of our interview/photo shoot an American woman does recognize him. "Number seven," he cries. "Wow, I'm not that big in Africa. I've got to do an action film here." During most of the hour and a half that we talk, Chappelle is serious and introspective.

But he still has his sense of humor, which comes out as we near the end of our conversation: "Is that enough to prove I'm not smoking crack or hanging out in a mental institution?"