link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050504/en_tv_eo/16484_1115248187)
link 2 (http://www.loosie.com/words/archives/2005/05/000557.php)
rumors sound like Chappelle is losing it. :-[
I've been following this. Comedy Central is covering something up. The guy might be in the loony bin.
I think he went straight for *roughly* 5 minutes while his movie career was flagging a little, then Comedy Central gave him the big contract, and he dove back into drugs harder than he ever had.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
WTF-that second article was written by someone on crack too. I don't trust that a bit. This is a shame though its been canceled. Hes the funniest farger alive IMO. Hope he comes back :yay
He's in trouble.
he is a rosenhaus client?
Why is that the most brilliant comics are oft the most tortured? Shame if it's true.
Quote from: Phanatic on May 09, 2005, 09:49:54 PMWhy is that the most brilliant comics are oft the most tortured? Shame if it's true.
Pain fertilizes humor.
Bring back Chris Elliot.
Could be a lot worse than drugs, from the standpoint of future comedy. Could be that he's gone totally Black Muslim and wants to clean up his act. His son's named Sulayman, you know.
There's an article in Newsweek about him. Main jist of the reason they keep pushing the premiere off is that he's not handling the fame and pressure well. Having a problem living up to the hype surrounding the show, etc.. so nothing is getting finished.
Some say he's having problems with CC about the tone of the show. Supposedly, he's written some skits that push the envelope further than CC is comfortable with.
Who the hell really knows?
Damn. I wondered what was going on when I heard they suspended the show. If he is snorting the powder, then I hope he cleans up. He is very talented and funny as shtein.
His stand up routines are excellent.
I just hope he isn't following one of his quotes and "spinkling some crack on him".
Damn man, if you can't handle the pressure of being a basic cable star maybe you should OD and save us all some trouble.
He should call Danny Bonaduce for help with that.
Quote from: BlueHeart on May 10, 2005, 01:07:58 AM
Some say he's having problems with CC about the tone of the show. Supposedly, he's written some skits that push the envelope further than CC is comfortable with.
I wonder what he could have possibly written that is worse than some of the stuff South Park, crank yankers, or Drawn together have done. I guess being an animation or a puppet lets you get away with a lot more eh....
He already pushed the envelope as far as he could. Maybe he dried up.
Quote from: Diomedes on May 09, 2005, 09:57:21 PM
Quote from: Phanatic on May 09, 2005, 09:49:54 PMWhy is that the most brilliant comics are oft the most tortured? Shame if it's true.
Pain fertilizes humor.
and creativity
Quote from: MURP on May 10, 2005, 09:16:19 AM
Quote from: BlueHeart on May 10, 2005, 01:07:58 AM
Some say he's having problems with CC about the tone of the show. Supposedly, he's written some skits that push the envelope further than CC is comfortable with.
I wonder what he could have possibly written that is worse than some of the stuff South Park, crank yankers, or Drawn together have done. I guess being an animation or a puppet lets you get away with a lot more eh....
Beats me. But ,yea, cartoons do get you more leeway.
Maybe they're jumping on the Pansy Bandwagon that seems to have gone out of control ever since NippleGate.
Beyond lame.
Dave Chappelle checked himself into a mental hospital - IN SOUTH AFRICA!?!
WHUUUT? (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7821711/)
Quote from: dpierce on May 12, 2005, 08:20:11 AM
Dave Chappelle checked himself into a mental hospital - IN SOUTH AFRICA!?!
WHUUUT? (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7821711/)
Just reported on the Stern show. Howard, Robin, and crew were saying that Dave was a laid back guy and happy with his place ion life and the fame of the show just invaded his life :-(.
lol...and I'm sure they're totally privvy to the inner workings of his brain.
Shame, though.
that sucks. hope he gets better.
I wonder if this is maybe some sort of sick joke he's pulling...sort of like what Ashton Kutcher did with Punk'D (Although he sort of had to keep celebrities off guard somehow).
Eh...I doubt it. Guy was on top of the world; not much to be gained by this move. There may be no such thing as bad publicity, but this sure is close.
Many mental institutions also handle addiction cases right? My guess is this is more substance based than crazy in the brain.
Quote from: rjs246 on May 12, 2005, 11:26:07 AM
Many mental institutions also handle addiction cases right? My guess is this is more substance based than crazy in the brain.
I doubt it. He'd go to one of those private clinics, not a mental institution.
Maybe he's bipolar. If so, the real question is whether the Cowboys will sign him to play DE.
Could be either raw crazies or substance abuse. Pointless to argue.
Quote from: FFatPatt on May 12, 2005, 12:01:32 PM
Pointless to argue.
If everyone agreed with that the point of internet message boards would cease to exist.
Nuh uh.
damn, that does suck. i remember hearing he lived on a farm, with his family before all the fame, in like Ohio. I just think the fame got to him. if he lived on a farm, you gotta think he liked his privacy. maybe it was too much for him to handle and he went crazy. in that case, sounds like no more chappelle show. :boo
I'm holding out hope that its just a huge stunt. Bitches!
Maybe he thinks he really is Rick James, bitch.
You might be right, bitch!
Quote from: PhillyGirl on May 12, 2005, 11:51:48 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on May 12, 2005, 11:26:07 AM
Many mental institutions also handle addiction cases right? My guess is this is more substance based than crazy in the brain.
I doubt it. He'd go to one of those private clinics, not a mental institution.
south africa is pretty private and remote from comedy central HQ :D
Quote from: Wingspan on May 12, 2005, 02:37:33 PM
Quote from: PhillyGirl on May 12, 2005, 11:51:48 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on May 12, 2005, 11:26:07 AM
Many mental institutions also handle addiction cases right? My guess is this is more substance based than crazy in the brain.
I doubt it. He'd go to one of those private clinics, not a mental institution.
south africa is pretty private and remote from comedy central HQ :D, bitch
Fixed.
According to the LA Times, 4 out of 10 episodes of sketches were completed, and none of the on-stage intros. Also, Comedy Central is kinda resigned to the fact that there will be no new Chappelle Show in 2005, at least.
Bring on Reno 911.
Now it looks like he's not in a nuthouse after all. Time.com fed Drudge some hype:
QuoteCOMEDY CHAPPELLE SPEAKS: WHAT I DID FOR $50 MILLION
Sat May 14 2005 19:48:54 ET
**Exclusive**
Dave Chappelle Found! Talks Exclusively with TIME Magazine in South Africa
"I figured, Let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone-stop a speeding car by using my feet as the brakes. I am surprised at what I would do for $50 million. I am surprised at what people around me would do for me to have $50 million," Dave Chappelle tells TIME's Christopher John Farley in an exclusive interview.
CHAPPELLE tells TIME he's not in mental hospital or drug rehab, debunking earlier reports in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and elsewhere.
The full story, as well as exclusive photos of Chappelle in South Africa, will appear on TIME.com Sunday morning and in the issue that hits newsstands Monday.
Developing...
Shazzam bitches!
Here's the Time article (http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1061415,00.html)
To read more than that you have to be a subscriber. :boo
Here is the entire article. Maybe there is still hope for the show once he gets things together:
QuoteDave 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?"
Quote from: CSD on May 15, 2005, 11:08:56 AM
Here is the entire article. Maybe there is still hope for the show once he gets things together:
That's not the whole thing; that's the free one. The full article starts like:
QuoteIt was a clumsy dismount," says Dave Chappelle. For the past couple of weeks, everybody has been looking for Chappelle. Turns out, all this time Chappelle has been looking for himself too. He is without a doubt the hottest, edgiest and most talked-about comedian today. But on April 28, he walked away from his highly rated sketch-comedy series, Chappelle's Show, and vanished into speculation, rumor and the whispers of unnamed sources. His agent, his publicist, even his writing partner didn't know where he had gone.
wow--didn't realize he was so religious. he better freakin come back and he better realize also its not going to last forever and someone is going to come along whos better. he just needs to stick with his family and say farg the rest of the people because hes in a position where the leeches are coming full blast. hope it all works out for him :yay
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/16/tv.chappelle.suspended.ap/index.html
Oh, just shut up and be funny. Tell the hangers-on to farg off and move on with your life.
Is that directed at Chapelle, or PG?
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on May 16, 2005, 06:55:49 PM
Is that directed at Chapelle, or PG?
It has to be Chapelle...there's no way in hell PG has the capability of being funny.
QuoteComedian Dave Chappelle has reportedly returned home to Ohio after a "spiritual retreat" in South Africa. Fans feared Chappelle had checked into a mental facility earlier this month when news circulated he'd halted his hit US comedy show Chappelle's Show to seek medical help in Africa. But the funnyman insisted he was just "stressed out" and needed a break. Now, Chappelle has returned to his hometown of Yellow Springs, but his agent Matt Labov insists there's still no signs that he'll return to making his show and he has been told not to book any live performances.
from imdb
Maybe Wayne Brady will take it over full time. ;)
Quote from: hbionic on May 16, 2005, 07:40:53 PM
Quote from: Susquehanna Birder on May 16, 2005, 06:55:49 PM
Is that directed at Chapelle, or PG?
It has to be Chapelle...there's no way in hell PG has the capability of being funny.
:-D
from imdb
QuoteDave Chappelle, whose popular Comedy Central show was postponed last month amid published reports raising questions about his mental stability, has told the Los Angeles Times that he plans to get together with the cable network's representatives this week to discuss a return. The Times said that Chappelle stunned audiences at two L.A. comedy clubs last Wednesday when he took the stage to deliver stand-up routines. A spokesman for Comedy central told the newspaper that no meeting with Chappelle had yet been set, adding: "We've been anticipating hearing from Dave and expect to shortly."
Quote from: MURP on June 07, 2005, 09:56:55 AM
from imdb
QuoteDave Chappelle, whose popular Comedy Central show was postponed last month amid published reports raising questions about his mental stability, has told the Los Angeles Times that he plans to get together with the cable network's representatives this week to discuss a return. The Times said that Chappelle stunned audiences at two L.A. comedy clubs last Wednesday when he took the stage to deliver stand-up routines. A spokesman for Comedy central told the newspaper that no meeting with Chappelle had yet been set, adding: "We've been anticipating hearing from Dave and expect to shortly."
I'm back bitch!!
Quote from: SSgt PSN on June 07, 2005, 10:16:38 AM[cliche ="unfunny overused"]I'm back bitch!![/cliche]
:-o
Don't use that smilie around KoRn. He'll think it's an open invite and the next thing you know, you'll be waking up with his jizz bags bouncing on your chin.
Quote from: SSgt PSN on June 07, 2005, 10:22:06 AM
Don't use that smilie around KoRn. He'll think it's an open invite and the next thing you know, you'll be waking up with his jizz bags bouncing on your chin.
:puke
Show's return still a question mark (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050715/en_celeb_eo/16951) :-\
I can't take this! Dave, we need you back on tv buddy. I'm going through withdrawal!!
Looks likes it's DOA, at least Charlie Murphy isnt bitter :-D
NEW YORK - Time to face the facts: Dave Chappelle's hit Comedy Central series isn't coming back, says one of its stars. "`Chappelle's Show' is over, man. Done," comic Charlie Murphy told TV Guide. "It took me a long time to be able to say those words, but I can say it pretty easy now, because it's the truth.".....................................
Network chief Doug Herzog met with Chappelle on June 3, but that has been their last communication, she said.
Murphy, the older brother of comic Eddie Murphy, said his two seasons with Chappelle made him a star.
"Now I can go out and do stand-up," he said. "I'm getting movie offers. It's off the hook. Me getting to the next level or whatever's going to happen is going to come from the next things I do, but `Chappelle's Show' served its purpose and I'll always be grateful."
This is Darkness indeed, dark tidings with this news. :'(
Comedy Central to release 4 episodes of Chappelle's Show in late spring.
I'm Back Bitches, Temporarily That Is! (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/05/tv.chappelle.returns.ap/index.html)
The Chapelle Theory (http://www.chappelletheory.com/)
Most likely bull, but interesting anyway.
Quote from: General_Failure on December 24, 2005, 02:49:41 AMMost likely bull, but interesting anyway.
The "bullshtein" stamp at the top gives it away before you even get to the ludicrous conspiracy theory involving a cabal of unlikely comrades (Whoopi, Cosby, Farrakhan, Jesse, Sharpton, Robert Johnson, and Oprah) conspiring to lay Chapelle low. Nice layout, though.
go to the very last page and click next. get the joke.
See, I told you Whoopi Goldberg was a man.
Quote from: MURP on December 24, 2005, 10:55:04 AM
go to the very last page and click next. get the joke.
I did get to the las page. Stil, I'd like to think that Bill Cosby had someone threaten Chapelle's family. That's just a great idea.
Chappelle on Oprah today (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/ap_on_en_tv/winfrey_chappelle)
There's a guy who pretty much HAS to be high all the time to balance himself out.
So you're saying he wakes up two hits under par?
new chappelle "lost" episodes started last night.
thanks for the heads up :P
Reruns Tuesday at 10pm on CC.
caught it last night and there was some pretty funny shtein in there. the tupac bit and his revenge bit where hilarious.
here is the 2pac skit
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p8ZA_kc4Jy8&feature=Views&page=3&t=t&f=b
I wrote this song in 1994
it might be doo doo
this seasons shows so far, including this upcoming week.
Episode 1 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hxd8zRbW9z0&mode=related&search=)
Episode 2 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sz1297Vh6gA&mode=related&search=)
Episode 3 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=P81KFHJAeqk&feature=Views&page=2&t=t&f=b)
Episode 2 was kinda weak, IMO. If this was an indication of where season 3 was going... it's a good thing he called it quits.
I mean he was ripping on Howard Dean for crying out loud. That material should have been in season 1.
i think this new season is the "lost" episodes which were made in the first two seasons but didn't make the show.
Whatever it is, it should have stayed lost. It's just more of the same.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 18, 2006, 10:01:57 PM
i think this new season is the "lost" episodes which were made in the first two seasons but didn't make the show.
Nah... the 1st episode was dealing with him treating people different after the $50 million contract... that happened after season 2.
Comedy Central also said a while back there they were just going to air the completed skits from season 3 before Dave quit... only with no Dave.
Exactly.