Chappelle's Show to return... Kind of...
Dec 5, 1:02 PM (ET)
By FRAZIER MOORE NEW YORK (AP) - Dave Chappelle is back on Comedy Central - well, kind of. The wildly popular comedian, who last spring walked off his show just weeks before its season premiere, will be on view in four episodes' worth of sketches he filmed before his startling exit, the cable channel announced Monday. The four half-hours of "Chappelle's Show" will premiere in weekly showings next April, May or June, the network said. A 2 1/2-minute preview of this never-before-seen footage will be included in "Comedy Central's Last Laugh '05" special, which premieres Sunday, 9 p.m. EST. Still to be determined is how the sketches will be packaged, since Chappelle's on-stage introductions were never produced. A full season would have been between 10 and 13 episodes. "It's great material, and we think our audience is hungry for it," said Comedy Central President Doug Herzog, noting that the last original episode of "Chappelle's Show" aired in May 2004. "Chappelle's Show," a raw, satirical comedy show that was both a critical and popular hit, was one of the network's most valuable properties. The announcement resolves - well, kind of - Chappelle's dangling status at Comedy Central, with whom he signed a deal in August 2004 reportedly worth $50 million for a third and fourth season. But last May, with the premiere date looming for that third season, Chappelle stunned his fans by ditching the show in mid-production. His disappearance - announced by Comedy Central on May 4 - spurred reports that he had mental or drug problems, but Chappelle later said he was unhappy with the show's creative direction. "I'm definitely stressed out," he told Time magazine a few days after Comedy Central announced the show was indefinitely postponed. "I'm not crazy, I'm not smoking crack." He spent two weeks in South Africa before returning home to his farm near Yellow Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Cincinnati. Chappelle, now 32, has since resumed performing live standup. In the meantime, "Chappelle's Show" has hung in limbo. "We had reached out several times to Dave's camp and asked, 'What would you like to do?'" Herzog said. "But we never received a definitive response. ... We thought it was time to start unearthing the material we had." He laughed. "It's kind of like Bob Dylan's 'Basement Tapes.'" |
come on chappelle come back
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At $12.5 Million per half hour, these could be the most expensive episodes of any TV show ever produced! -eek-
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Why would they pay him the full amount if he dropped out?
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Why support a guy who walked out on his show and his fans??
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Yeah, he definetly didn't get that huge paycheck.
Charlie Murphy was on Too Late with Adam Carolla and said they filmed 8 or 9 episodes worth of material. I was hoping we would get more than 4. Well I was really hoping, and I thing the CC executives were as well, that he would come back and finish up. |
Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
At $12.5 Million per half hour, these could be the most expensive episodes of any TV show ever produced! -eek-
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Prediction:
The new skits will suck. See you in June. |
Why would the new skits suck? Oooh, I see.. because it would be the assumption that this is forced and you didn't bother to read the thread at all and see that these were all taped prior to him going awol.
Yeah. I see no reason why these will suck. |
Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
Why would the new skits suck? Oooh, I see.. because it would be the assumption that this is forced and you didn't bother to read the thread at all and see that these were all taped prior to him going awol.
Yeah. I see no reason why these will suck. |
Can't wait to see the MTV Cribs skit.
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They might actually be brilliant. Creative types are always unhappy with their work, so maybe they weren't up to his standards, but blazin' for us mortals. :)
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
Why would the new skits suck? Oooh, I see.. because it would be the assumption that this is forced and you didn't bother to read the thread at all and see that these were all taped prior to him going awol.
Yeah. I see no reason why these will suck. We'll just have to wait and see. I see no reason to assume they will automatically be comedy gold. |
From what Charlie Murphy has said about these, it doesn't sound like he suffered any amount of bad creative ideas. Murphy said that he loved the clips and hoped to have them see the light of day some time.
It's just that the constant yelling of "I'm rick james, bitch" got to him in his personal life and he left. He didn't suffer a mental break down, he wasn't hooked on drugs (well, maybe just a little WoW) It's just that he didn't like what the show was doing. He does stand up only now and it's great stuff and up to bar to the old material. He didn't like what the show was doing and stopped. |
Originally Posted by spainlinx0
He did leave because he didn't like the creative direction of the show so maybe that's why he assumes they will suck?
Bingo... bitch. |
Its his show. He controls the creative control of the show. There's no demand by comedy central to hold him to make his views different because he had them by the horns paying him whatever he wanted.
He didn't like the side effects of the show and what it caused on his personal life. Considering another cast member said that the stuff they produced was some of the best stuff he has done and wasn't dreading it being shown and actually hoped folks would see it some day. I don't think that it's C material. Add to that the level and high bar that the whole Rick James skit pushed it up to and the level of expectations folks were at after that, I can see how the pressure was tossed on him. But from the proof in the pudding from the others, it doesn't sound like he left because he just simply ran out of ideas. I'm sure you were going for the "I'm rick james, bitch" with that "bitch" at the end but it came off as rather rude and overstepping to the lines towards a nicely covered personal attack. Especially when we are having a sort of discussion/debate going on here. |
charlie murphy!
there's a charlie murphy that occasionally calls the helpdesk I work at I have to bite my tongue not to laugh |
There was a good article in Time Magazine about what happened with Dave Chappelle. In summary, it just said that he didn't like the way his life had become and felt that no matter what he did, his writing was just not good enough for the people paying to see his stuff. His $50 million apparently isn't upfront, but from DVD sales as well. So in his words, he doesn't want to give people "shit".
On a side note, I was pleasantly surprised that he took time off not because he was a raging crack addict but instead because he feels he lost his spiritual core. As you may or may not know, he is a practicing Muslim (or tries to be as best he can). The time that he took off was also to perform the Hajj (which he didn't get to do apparently). He also seems like a pretty laidback guy; apparently him and his family live on a farm in Ohio and not LA or NY as I would have thought. I can't wait to see the new sketches, but I'm going to be glad when he starts making shows again; my feeling is he's still at the top of his game, and being surrounded by too many Yesmen just got to him. |
I'm sure you were going for the "I'm rick james, bitch" with that "bitch" at the end but it came off as rather rude and overstepping to the lines towards a nicely covered personal attack. Especially when we are having a sort of discussion/debate going on here. It was not meant that way in the slightest. Sorry if I offended you. |
Originally Posted by Fielding Mellish
It was not meant that way in the slightest. Sorry if I offended you.
Bitch. |
Originally Posted by Fielding Mellish
It was not meant that way in the slightest. Sorry if I offended you.
Let's hug it out, bitch! |
Originally Posted by Ovid
Let's hug it out, bitch!
Oh yeah... bitch. |
Let's hug it out, bitch! Your unwanted sexual advances come off as rather rude and overstepping to the lines... ...bitch. ;) |
Just a heads-up that Dave Chappelle will be on Oprah's show this Friday.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11134248/ Chappelle will explain himself to Oprah On Friday's show, comedian will discuss his sudden vanishing act Comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at New York's Laugh Factory in 2004. Last June, the comedian dropped in unannounced at two comedy clubs in Los Angeles, saying he felt like performing. His puzzling behavior has continued since. MSNBC Updated: 7:25 p.m. ET Feb. 1, 2006 Comedian Dave Chappelle, who shocked fans last year with his sudden disappearance and reports of a stint in a mental-health facility, will tell all to Oprah. Chappelle, creator of a self-titled Comedy Central hit, will appear on Oprah Winfrey's talk show Friday to discuss “why he walked away from $50 million,” according to her Web site. The comic signed a massive deal with the cable network for two more seasons of “Chappelle's Show,” and then mysteriously vanished last April, reportedly resurfacing in a South African mental-health facility just a month before the scheduled May 31 launch of his program's third season. He later returned to some stand-up comedy bookings, but the future of his cable show remains in limbo. One reporter who interviewed him during his South Africa stint said Chappelle's faith as a “practicing Muslim” had begun to clash with the increasingly raunchy, raw material he was penning for his program. Comedy Central executives later made plans to air some completed sketches from the new season. Winfrey's site promises that the comedian will answer “the big question ... will he go back to his show?” |
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I saw The Matador yesterday, and one of the previews was for, " Dave Chappelle's Block Party ". It's a doc about him going around the country inviting people to his block party, for food, comedy and music performances. It looks good especially if you like, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Kanye, The Roots, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott......etc.
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Will he go back? I sure wish he would but I don't think it will happen.
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this will the be only time i will ever tivo oprah.
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Originally Posted by yohansen5b
this will the be only time i will ever tivo oprah.
I swear I was about to say the exact same thing when I saw he was going to be on Oprah. Way to copy me in advance, bitch. :lol: |
Originally Posted by yohansen5b
this will the be only time i will ever tivo oprah.
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If Steadman shows up, Dave might be in trouble.
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Have Wayne Brady take over Chappelle's Show...
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Originally Posted by SuprVgeta
Have Wayne Brady take over Chappelle's Show...
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He's also appearing on Inside the Actor's Studio airing Sunday Feb. 12th.
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Here is Chapelle's appearence in a nutshell provided by CNN.com:
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Dave Chappelle told Oprah Winfrey he was stressed out and not crazy or on drugs when he abruptly left his hit Comedy Central show last spring during production. In his first television interview since ditching "Chappelle's Show" in May, the comedian said that after he signed a $50 million deal for the third and fourth seasons in August 2004, too many people were trying to control him and his show. "I wasn't crazy but it is incredibly stressful," Chappelle, 32, said during his appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Friday. "I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you," Chappelle said. Last May, with the premiere date looming for the third season, Chappelle stunned his fans and the entertainment industry by leaving the show in mid-production. He spent two weeks in South Africa before returning home to his farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, about 75 miles northeast of Cincinnati. Chappelle has since resumed performing live standup. The provocative comedian denied reports that his mysterious departure was caused by mental or drug problems. But he told Winfrey that other people were trying to get him to take psychotic medication when he decided to leave the show and country, without telling anyone except his brother before he left. Chappelle stressed that the fame that grew as his show became increasingly popular wasn't the problem, but the environment he faced at Comedy Central. "I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was" he said. "I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching." The comedian did not rule out returning to film the rest of the third and fourth seasons of "Chappelle's Show" but only under certain circumstances. For example, Chappelle said he would like to donate a portion of the proceeds from DVD sales to the less fortunate. The status of his show has hung in limbo since May. Comedy Central announced in December that four half-hour episodes of "Chappelle's Show" -- based on what Chappelle taped before leaving the production -- will premiere in weekly airings this spring. A full season would have been between 10 and 13 episodes. |
I think there's no way the rift between himself and Viacom can be repaired. I also refuse to believe that alot of what Dave is saying and feeling is made-up.
It always seemed to me, after watching S1 and S2 that Dave was just running out of ideas. I've always thought that was the real problem - the well was just empty. |
I'm just impressed he's truthful about it. If he really is running out of ideas, then kudos to him for saying so. Way better than watching a show that's past its prime.
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watched all of the interview, didn't say anything about running out of ideas, said he wants to finish the rest of season 3 if Comedy Central will re-work the contract, said any of the people that was on the show before is more than welcomed to come back to it, also said he wants a lot of the money to go to the "people", don't know exactly what he was tryin to say with that, guess like Katrina victims and stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by Dave Chappelle
I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.
Originally Posted by Dave Chappelle
I felt like some kind of prostitute or something.
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Originally Posted by redrum
watched all of the interview, didn't say anything about running out of ideas, said he wants to finish the rest of season 3 if Comedy Central will re-work the contract, said any of the people that was on the show before is more than welcomed to come back to it, also said he wants a lot of the money to go to the "people", don't know exactly what he was tryin to say with that, guess like Katrina victims and stuff like that.
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