Chappelle's show shutdown

[loudog]

Chappelle's Show is a no-go, bitch!

In a surprise announcement Wednesday, Comedy Central said that the highly anticipated third season of Dave Chappelle's show will not make its May 31 premiere date.

"Comedy Central has suspended production on the third season of Chappelle's Show until further notice," network spokesman Tony Fox said in a brief statement. "All parties are optimistic that production will resume in the near future."

No official reason was given for the shutdown, but sources told E! News that Chappelle has been MIA from the set for weeks. Chappelle's publicist declined to comment, referring reporters to the Comedy Central statement.

There was no indication on how long the suspension would last.

In December, the network said that Chappelle's Show was behind schedule after Chappelle fell ill, forcing the network to postpone the expected February debut of new episodes.

"Dave--and his entire production crew for that matter--got a bit of a late start on writing season three," Fox told the New York Post. Production was slated to resume in January.

Last August, Chappelle, 31, reupped with Comedy Central in a massive two-year deal, valued at $50 million by the Hollywood Reporter. The deal also set a new Industry precedent--reportedly giving the funnyman a large cut of backend DVD sales.

 

[loudog]

Newsweek quotes friends of the comic actor, saying:

"He "freaked" and didn't know how to deal with the breakout success of Chappelle's Show....And then came the pressure of living up to expectations for the third season. He's never been there--where something's so good and you got to come even stronger the next time. It was too much"

 

[bullet66]

show must go on

 

[gardenweasel]

he was just tryin` to "keep it real"........

 

[in2fitness]

Cocaine's a helluva drug...

Cocaine's a helluva drug...

Rick James

I love when he was wiping his shoes on the new couch. I was laughing so hard, I thought I was going to stop breathing. :mj07:

 

[gardenweasel]

the sesame street show had me crying.....and


"There was a f-ckin baby standin on the corner. You only see that type of shit in the ghetto. I felt bad so I had to say something to the baby. So I said "Hey baby, It's three o'clock in the morning man, what the f-ck are you doing out?"

He said, "I'm sellin weed nigga!"

chappelle will be missed....

 

[ferdville]

My favorite is Ashy Larry

 

[bjfinste]

I've been reading a lot about this the last couple of days, and it sounds like it's still a pretty safe bet that it'll still go off, it'll just be late. Must be taking a page from the Sopranos playbook.

 

[Simply In The Red]

I've been reading a lot about this the last couple of days, and it sounds like it's still a pretty safe bet that it'll still go off, it'll just be late. Must be taking a page from the Sopranos playbook.

This is the mostly likely scenario that will occur, since that show is way too popular to kill off that easy.

 

[GoTerps]

lets hope....the movie critic skitmade me spit my beer out...."you must be on crack" ...."tom cruise as the last samuri".."thats like tom hanks as the last n*****"

 

[Another Steve]

I like the White family, I can't remember what thier name is, ....help me, what is it, on the tip of my tonge.

 

[jpblack34]

my favorite.....the Ethnicity Draft 2004. The chinese taking Wu tang clan, all time classic. Kameechiwa bitches!

 

[Schouest]

I like the White family, I can't remember what thier name is, ....help me, what is it, on the tip of my tonge.

Yeah the theme song was catchy.

N-I-G ......

 

[Mjolnir]

guess he signed a 2 year 50million $ deal. i think i'd show up for that gig.

 

[Taximike]

My fave............ Samuel Jackson beer......."How's it taste Mother******"

 

[KJNY2]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tv_chappelle_suspended
south africa?

 

[Chopsticks]

Piss On You...R.Kelly was a great one

But my all time favorite is the blind and black KKK member...Too funny

 

[saint]

My fave............ Samuel Jackson beer......."How's it taste Mother******"

Mine too!! :mj07:

Good mother fvcking choice, mother fvcker!
Samuel Jackson beer...ITLL GET YA DRUNK!!! YOU' LL BE FVCKING FAT GIRLS IN NO TIME!!! YOU MIGHT EVEN FIGHT A NIGGA OR TWO!!! MMM MMM BITCH!!!

 

[THE KOD]

Chappelle Reportedly Checks Into Facility
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK ? Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian's whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed and production halted.

Comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Laugh Factory in New York City on April 3, 2004. The star of Comedy Central's popular 'Chappelle's Show' is exhausted due to tension, partying and creative differences with Comedy Central, causing the recent halt in the show's production, a Newsweek magazine report said. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.

"We don't know where he is," Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. "We've heard about South Africa. We don't know. We haven't talked to Dave."

Chappelle's spokesman, Matt Labov, would not comment on the magazine's story.

"It seems like the issues he's contending with are really quite serious," said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. "It isn't a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion."

The magazine's sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, which was not named, Hayes said. Chappelle's representatives have denied that the comedian was abusing drugs.

Chappelle reportedly signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central for two more seasons of his show, a payday made possible because of the explosive sales of the show's first season DVD.

The magazine said Chappelle had shot four to five episodes' worth of sketches for the new season, but none of its onstage introductions.


___

 

[loudog]

Chappelle: Time out

By C?sar G. Soriano, USA TODAY

Comedian Dave Chappelle, who vanished in the middle of filming his hit Comedy Central show last month, says he flew to South Africa for a "spiritual retreat" but denies reports that he checked into a mental institution and speculation that he might have had a drug problem.

Comedian Dave Chappelle is currently staying with friends in Durban, South Africa.
Comedy Central

"I'm not crazy," Chappelle tells Time magazine (May 23 issue, on newsstands today). "I'm not smoking crack. I'm definitely stressed out." Chappelle, who is staying with friends in the port town of Durban, says he did consult with a psychiatrist for one 40-minute session.

On April 28, Chappelle walked away from the set of Chappelle's Show and a deal worth up to $50 million, without word to his business associates. The already delayed third season of the sketch show was to have premiered May 31. It was postponed indefinitely after his disappearance.

Chappelle says he wasn't happy with the direction of the show. "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 brakes."

This was not the first time Comedy Central has halted production for Chappelle, Comedy Central president Doug Herzog tells Time. In December, Chappelle, who converted to Islam in 1998, took a break to try a pilgrimage to Mecca. He got only as far as Turkey because he didn't have a visa for Saudi Arabia.

His colleagues are none too pleased. "There were 1,000 ways to deal with this. ... This was the worst way to have done it," Neal Brennan, Chappelle's writing partner, tells Time. Brennan says Chappelle's problem is he's indecisive, even scrapping skits at the last second because he said they were racist.

Herzog has told staff and advertisers that he believes Chappelle's Show will not return this year, but he leaves the option open for the comedian's return. "I don't know what the guy's thinking. This is a guy who walked off his own show and kind of left everybody bewildered," he says.

Chappelle's wife and two children live on a farm in Ohio. He says he wants to come back to work but did not say when that might happen. Chappelle says he has been getting advice from other black entertainers such as singer Lauryn Hill.

Chappelle partly blames his inner circle for his problems. "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 tells Time. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius, you're great, that's your voice.' But I'm not sure that they're right."

At the same time, he shares the blame. "I'm admittedly a human being. I'm a difficult kind of dude."