Bad Chappelle Bits

it sucks that he left -- he was such a massive deal to ppl my age, now the most influential comedic voice of the past 5 years is like michael scott or some shit

apparently he has a part in this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Heist tho it looks like a small one

it sucks that he left

agreed. but i respect that he did. that actor's studio he did is fascinating to watch - he's clearly got a strong intellectual handle on why he quit, but at the same time he's evidently emotionally burned by the experience. he's great because he really cares about what he does, its effect, its power. that sensitivity to details is partof why he's so funny, and i guess why he couldn't ignore the problematic nuances of the chappelle show, and the fanbase it discovered, and how selectively they interpreted his message.

Well he still does standup. I have the shitty 3-minute cameraphone videos to prove it. He hasn't "gone away", he just isn't appearing on television.

yeah he's done a huuuuuuuuge amount of standup the past few years, just in comedy clubs and not big theaters or tapings for cable specials or anything that would amount to a a really public outing for someone of his level of fame.

he popped up on larry sanders season five as a cranky star

he has kids right?

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, February 8, 2011 3:38 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah and he lives on a massive farm in like rural kansas or something

ohio

he popped up on larry sanders season five as a cranky star

Wasn't he playing himself? or maybe you meant that

well he wasn't really a 'star' in 1998 so he was probably playing a pretty fictionalized version of himself

Well everybody on Sanders played a pretty fictionalized version of themselves. I hope.

weed selling baby bit is still one of my favorite things ever

"I snuck into the club!"

hahah yes! the thong contest! so good.

You see a lot of his town and the ppl in it in Block Party.

RE the crazy comment yesterday - I thought he had a huge breakdown and went into rehab or something in S. Africa and I hadn't heard much about him since. or the opposite, just a normal dude living life and thinking about things That makes sense though and I hope it's the case although I do wish he'd do something again.

He didn't go crazy, he wasn't on drugs, there was no rehab, he just walked away. It's rare, but you have to admit it's a sane reaction to an insane situation.

i think the "crazy" stuff was gossip to fill in the lack of info. that or the fact that he walked out of a (supposedly) $50m contract. he was on conan or something a few months after he got back from africa and he was like "my wife wasn't too happy about me not gettin that money.. it was like purple rain at my house. i know what it sounds like when doves cry."

lol

lol

It's rare, but you have to admit it's a sane reaction to an insane situation.

Absolutely.

yeah i think a lot of the stigma and speculation around what Chappelle did remains because when he has talked about it, it's been with humor in standup or on talk shows and not bearing his soul and crying to Oprah or Barbara Walters or something

I have no idea how you could watch the Inside the Actor's Studio interview and decide he was just a "guy who walked away," though. Did we all see the same one? He went on a paranoid rant about how the television/hollywood complex wants to tell you that you have issues, that you need to see a therapist, and implied that therapists were going to force you on drugs or brainwash you.

I mean, there's kind of the issue that he was being prodded into it due to wanting to leave and most of the people involved had some financial interest in keeping him in the business so it's hard to tell what's what, but he really did sound like he'd been smoking too much weed.

I haven't seen it. Going to see if I can find it online tonight.

Yeah, I haven't seen that, either. Will check.

yeah he actually is crazy, sorry

pretty sure he DID go on oprah, actually

implied that therapists were going to force you on drugs or brainwash you.

i don't recall this at all. thought he was a real calm, funny, centered dude in that interview

oh yeah damn forgot about the oprah interview

still love this movie

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

What is that from? Half baked? I haven't seen it since I saw it in the theater but at the time I remember thinking it was hysterical.

yeah half baked

Half Baked is hilarious

poll idea: half baked v. how high

never seen how high

must see

never did see block party, is that good then

How High is terrible

block party is a good time imo

yeah i don't really fuck w/ How High, and i even saw that in the theater.

block party is real nice, it's a concert film tho but there are a lot of bits around it with him putting it together etc

He's still floating about. Check the brouhaha that happened when he leaked that he was going to show up in Portland in Pioneer Square like two summers ago, and appeared at 12:30 on a Tuesday night.

yeah he's done some standup appearances. keepin a pretty low profile though

As far as the Chappelle show went, I agree that a half hour was too short.

the show was about 16 minutes on Australian TV (ie without ad breaks) - a full half-hour would have been fine.

has he really been doing a "huge" amount of stand up? i know that he had popped up a few places, but it's not like he's been on a tour or anything right?

well he seems to do a lot of unannounced stuff, so yeah no full-scale tour but afaict it's been a pretty significant number of performances over the past few years, not just a handful here or there (talking probably dozens, not hundreds or anything obv). plus his performances have often been like 3+ hours long.

This is amazing.

According to numerous sources, Chappelle stopped his show after telling a single opening joke to complain about people filming him from the front row. And according to an eyewitness account by CNN reporter Roland S. Martin, he then proceeded to spend the next 45 minutes just sort of standing around awkwardly—“sighing audibly” and occasionally checking his text messages—as the audience grew restless and began booing him.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/dave-chappelle-tells-single-joke-then-stands-on-st,59424/

He's cray cray. ;_;

man, i almost went to that thing

on the one hand, dave prob shouldn't be so crazy about ppl filming him in this day & age. on the other hand, what kind of fucking asshole ruins a rare dave chappelle set by refusing to stop filming him from the front row?

surprising the organizers of the show allow taping

some footage (ironically):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkXFwQtjN0E

Audience should have beat the living fuck out of that guy, tbh

imagine he's protected by bouncers

imagine most people aren't savages too