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The content / commercial ratio is certainly more preferable.

― dean? (deangulberry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

The worst Chapelle Show bit EVER:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117922148?cs=1&s=h&p=0

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

rehab? or illness?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

In interviews he always seems really whacked out.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

cocaine's a helluva drug.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm guessing illness, though i really hope not...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Chappelle did have pneumonia earlier this year, which delayed work on Season 3; a relapse of this or a new illness is always possible. Still, the fact that Comedy Central had been announcing new episodes beginning 5/31 raises suspicions.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe comedy central is like "50 MILLION DOLLARS what the fuck were we thinking?" and are trying to renegotiate the contract

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet he pulls a Martin and ends up running down a freeway naked at 4am or some shit like that...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Skidmore did that?

― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks really uncomfortable and confused in the ads for the new season on the subways here in NYC.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently they haven't finished filming the season yet b/c he's been unhappy with it so they are putting off the debut until all the eps are in the can.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Gawker gossip:

According to a conversation between the [someone playing a key role on the show] and [someone else affiliated with someone on the show], Dave Chappelle has completely gone off his rocker. He is basically AWOL and in need of some serious psychological help. I don’t mean this figuratively. Kiss the season goodbye, and most likely Chappelle will be sued for breach of contract. The guy is just acting nuts right now.

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

He's been working nonstop for the past year. Exhaustion, or indeed some mental breakdown, is not "acting nuts". That's offensive.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I don't have the personal relationship with him that you seem to, but I was just reposting some "gossip" (that means it may not be true.)

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't lose your cool Dave! It's your currency!

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Characterizing mental health issues as "nuts", "off their rocker", etc. offends me deeply.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think they're inferring that he's on the drugs.

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I just hope that it's not VD related or else this thread title will take on new, unfortunate meanings.

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

is 'drawn together' really a hit?

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a scary thought.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I imagine it's illness-related (mental) though drugs wouldn't be out of the question. I don't imagine the season being completely cancelled though.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://posters.imdb.com/posters/n/nuts1987_36439.jpg

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.loosie.com/words/archives/2005/05/000557.php

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

that article was painfully hard to read. (nb, bad writing, not bad news)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yea, was it written by Jackie Harvey?

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

It reads like a parody of an insufferable blogger!

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it was painful on both counts really

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

well, painful or not to read, it's grim news...

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 5 May 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude! That guy's writing on a iBook? Dude!

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Momus should makeout with that guy because they are both great bloggers

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

here's a pretty underwhelming 'inside story' from newsweek

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7773670/site/newsweek/

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

'Chappelle' yuks yanked for now
Comedy Central's hit laffer put on hold

"hit laffer?" awful, awful, awful.

(chapelle not being right, that's awful too.)

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Way late on this, but I saw the Pixies sketch for the first time last night (it was airing on syndication on like TBS or something which is kinda telling about the difference 5 years can make). Anyway, very funny but I totally got why Chappelle was horrified by the bit and maybe about how he had this new perspective on all his work. Certainly if you're coming to the work with a little distance, and some irony, the sketches aren't necessarily racist (the idea that everyone has insecurities about their own racial stereotypes is a fine observation and can lead to a really funny sketch), but I can totally see how a lot of his work is almost nihilistically using racial caricatures + themes for the lulz -- and I can totally get Chappelle freaking out as he imagines that a huge amount of his fanbase is being titillated by the guy singing in blackface, and not by the observation that accompanies the depiction. (Or, as someone pointed out to me that I thought was a great point -- images are really powerful and they're hard to pin down. Something that might not carry any of this baggage in stand-up can start to drag a lot of baggage behind it when the image is right there in front of you.)

― Mordy, Sunday, 8 August 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EipXbCV3hhA

― Tolaca Luke (admrl), Sunday, 8 August 2010 23:51 (fifteen years ago)

i meant to post something about Wu-Tang torture. It seems so weird to me for like the most popular sketch show on earth to be expecting everyone in their audience to know what happens in an A NON-SINGLE ALBUM TRACK on an an album that only went one-time platinum. It would be like doing a skit about a deep cut on Pearl Jam's No Code

A) The sketch makes no sense unless you're intimately familiar with the Wu track

B) If you ARE intimately familiar with the Wu track, you know every single line of dialogue before it comes. So I have no idea why the audience keeps laughing like he's surprising them with jokes.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:17 (fifteen years ago)

because that's how comedy works? even if you know what's coming, the anticipation + payoff is what's funny

― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, 9 August 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

but otherwise i agree

― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, 9 August 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

comedy is about defying people's expectations iirc.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:25 (fifteen years ago)

otherwise it's just sharing an in-joke?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

Sometimes the expected can be unexpected.

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Monday, 9 August 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

A) if you don't know the sketch you've got Dave Chappelle describing crazy ass scenarios involving rappers in a ridiculous voice B) if you know the sketch you may lol at hearing it described as an actual event (which, i, for one, did)

― da croupier, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

by "sketch" i mean "skit" obv

― da croupier, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

A) That's not a joke, though
B) I guess. But then it's really a funny PREMISE with no real payoff, but that's just me

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:28 (fifteen years ago)

of all people to complain about a sketch show celebrating one of the more memorable skits in rap history I wouldn't expect it to be you, Whiney

― da croupier, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:29 (fifteen years ago)

also between "comedy is about defying expectations" and "that's not a joke" I think you may have more rules about what's allowed to make you laugh than some

― da croupier, Monday, 9 August 2010 00:31 (fifteen years ago)

tbh if i had a sketch comedy show on comedy central that was as well loved as his show, i might devote one minute of my airtime to a sketch about a rap in joke

― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 August 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

it wasn't like he had a two hour special about rap skits

― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 August 2010 00:37 (fifteen years ago)

it's about the recontextualization imo.

― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Monday, 9 August 2010 03:46 (fifteen years ago)

im not saying it's genius but ya sometimes just reciting something like that matter-of-factly is funny

that's what's unexpected about it

the fact that it is being reported on a news show

― the itsytitchyschneider (s1ocki), Monday, 9 August 2010 03:56 (fifteen years ago)

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