Dave Chapelle New Shows to Air: 7/9/06

[#1 Leading Lady]

*"I'm not crazy, I'm not smoking crack," comedian Dave Chappelle tells “Time” magazine in an interview, addressing Entertainment Weekly’s report last week that the entertainer 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 said he was “definitely stressed out” and decided to stay with friends in Durban because he wasn't happy with the direction of his Comedy Central series “Chappelle’s Show,” which recently saw the debut of the third season postponed indefinitely.


In describing the reason for his South African “spiritual retreat,” Chappelle says: "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. …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." Despite Chappelle’s reported $50 million deal with the network for two more seasons of the show, Herzog has informed its staff that there may not be a "Chappelle's Show" in 2005, but leaves the option open for the comedian's return. Chappelle said he hopes to come back to the series, but did not indicate when a return would take place.


Chappelle also spoke with “Time” about the fast live that comes along with a sudden rise to fame.


"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

[#1 Leading Lady]

*Dave Chappelle is reportedly back in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio after abruptly leaving the set of his “Chappelle’s Show” mid-production and jetting off to South African for a “spiritual retreat.”


"He was in here last week to buy cigarettes and he was in here again on Saturday," Cyndee Perkins, manager of the Import House tobacco shop, told MTV. "He talks to everyone, and everyone talks to him. We don't ask him [about his personal business] because we wanted to make sure he's OK and we didn't want to pry. I was glad to see he was enjoying the weather."


According to Chappelle’s spokesman Matt Labov, his presence back in Yellow Springs doesn’t automatically mean that his Comedy Central show will resume production.

"We have no update and I won't speculate on when the show might come back," Labov said.

[9dstpm]

Bought the DVD Tuesday and I am LMAO!!!! Will watch more tonght when I get home!!

[AKA2D '91]

I bought the DVD today @ Wal-Mart. I went in there to buy a cake for my students (their parents have opted for tomorrow to be their last day.... PARTY! ), I end up coming out with a cake AND a DVD.

Dangit!

[NinjaPoodle]

Dave Chappelle Show gets axed....



Say it aint so.. say it aint so

Wednesday Aug 03, 2005 9:00am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Dave Chappelle
CREDIT: FRAZER HARRISON / GETTY

In the ongoing Dave Chappelle saga – which started in April when he
walked off his Comedy Central show in order to rest up in South
Africa – the latest word comes from the comedian's collaborator,
Charlie Murphy.

And that word is, Chappelle's Show won't go on.

Murphy, the brother of Eddie Murphy and a writer and costar on
Chappelle's Show, tells the New York Post: "I don't think Dave is
going to do any more."

Not that Chappelle didn't show up for work. "We shot about eight
shows for the third season," Murphy continues. "They'll be released
on DVD, I'm sure. But that's it."

Murphy describes the unseen episodes as "hilarious."

Chappelle surfaced in May following a disappearance that even took
his agent, publicist and network by surprise. The move led Comedy
Central to suspend his show. But he told Time magazine: "I'm not
crazy, I'm not smoking crack. ...I'm definitely stressed out."

Leaving behind a wife and two children in Ohio, the comedian, who
turns 33 this month, said he escaped to Durbin, South Africa, for
a "spiritual retreat," as he called it.

His journey, he said, was because, despite its success, he wasn't
happy with the direction of his show – for which Comedy Central
reportedly was paying him $50 million for two seasons. "There's a lot
of resistance to my opinions, so I decided, 'Let me remove myself
from this situation,'" said Chappelle.

Countering their star's claim about the show, Comedy Central
president Doug Herzog told Time that Chappelle had "complete creative
freedom." Herzog also said that he told his staff that he believed
there wouldn't be a Chappelle's Show in 2005, but that he was leaving
the option open for the comedian's return.

Herzog recently repeated the latter claim, adding, "The ball's in
Dave's court," reports the Post. "If you see him, tell him to phone
home."

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...ment-headlines

http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/...sp?ArID=143084

WHA........????????

[luminarysoul]

come back dave!!!

[Steeltrap]

This is so wrong. I mean, Being Booby Beresford Brown is CRYING out for a Dave Chappelle lampoon.

[futurestar1]

Originally posted by Steeltrap
This is so wrong. I mean, Being Booby Beresford Brown is CRYING out for a Dave Chappelle lampoon.

That would be classic!

[ATLien]

YES IT WOULD!!!plus we need him to talk about M. Jackson and he needs to spoof Trapped in the Closet.

[Dvyne Evolushun]

[tangent]
And the Whisper Song
[officially /tangent about this song...]

But I can just see him spoofing that one too.

[lostnfound117]

Dave Chappelle happy to be working clubs
Associated Press
Sept. 13, 2005 8:15 AM

CINCINNATI - Dave Chappelle, who walked away from his hit TV series earlier this year, said working in front of smaller audiences is more his speed.
Chappelle, who sold out 10 shows at a northern Kentucky club, said doing standup is "like I'm hanging out with a bunch of people." He played the Funny Bone Comedy Club at Newport on the Levee last week, a 325-seat club.

"Most people don't know what it's like to stand up there and speak their mind. I have a venue to do that. I get paid to do that. It's not like I'm doing heavy lifting
up there. It's not like I'm solving the world's problems," he told The Cincinnati Enquirer in Monday's editions.

The comedian stunned fans and the entertainment industry when he abruptly left during production of the third season of his Comedy Central series, "Chappelle's Show."

He spent two weeks in South Africa before returning home to his 65-acre farm near Yellow Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Cincinnati, and then returned to standup comedy.

"I like that particular kind of attention. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you," Chappelle told the newspaper.

Chappelle has said he was unhappy with the direction of his show. His decision triggered reports that he had mental or drug problems, which he denied.
"It was a little weird," he said. "It felt like some of the stuff was real tabloid, like raw speculation."

"It was like stuff I would normally buy and believe," he said with a laugh. "I just took it as a learning experience. It was like becoming a public person and learning all the responsibility that comes with that."
Chappelle said he wasn't sure what's ahead for him: "Wow. ... That's a good question. ... Is 'I don't know' an acceptable answer?"

[Gina1201]

From mtv.com:

A year after Dave Chappelle walked away from his series' production, we will finally get to see some new "Chappelle's Show" episodes. Don't get too excited, though. Comedy Central has got its hands on the unaired material the comedian shot before he went on abrupt (and seemingly permanent) hiatus earlier this year, but the network is not promising that Chappelle is back for good.

According to a story in Variety, Comedy Central (which, like MTV, is owned by Viacom) will air the finished material as part of what it's calling season three of the popular sketch comedy show. The episodes will first run on the station's broadband network, MotherLoad, and then air on the station sometime next year.

Chappelle signed a multimillion-dollar deal for future editions of the show last year, and began working on season three before walking out on the tapings in April and taking a "spiritual retreat" in Africa. Since returning to the U.S., the comedian has done a number of stand-up dates, but has never discussed the full story behind his departure from the show.

A preview of material from season three was shown at a recent Comedy Central event, and it included spoofs of MTV's "Cribs" and the Morgan Spurlock fast-food documentary "Super Size Me." A spokesperson confirmed for Variety that all the bits were taped before Chappelle pulled the plug on the show, but would not say whether the decision to air them meant the network was admitting that the comedian was not coming back.

— Gil Kaufman

[AKA2D '91]

Comedy Central needs RATINGS!

[AKA2D '91]

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