February 3, 200620 yr He's going to say whether or not he's considering coming back to the show... He's done a lot of backtracking already. Saying he wasn't pleased with the work conditions and he'd had to settle for less than he was worth early on. He also compared his situation to Mariah Carey getting 100 million and then going crazy, Martin Lawrence in the street with a gun saying "They're going to kill me." But, he did it in a way that he said as soon as someone gets big people come after them. I don't know, this kind of reeks of a grade schooler who got in trouble and will do anything not to tell his parents the truth. It's sad I'm "watching Oprah" in the background while pretending to do my homework so I can go out this weekend.
February 4, 200620 yr http://tv.yahoo.com/news/eo/20060203/113902218000.html Chappelle says stress caused him to leave show Chappelle Opens Up on "Oprah" Friday February 3 7:03 PM ET By Sarah Hall He wasn't crazy. He wasn't on drugs. He presented no threat to Oprah Winfrey's onset furniture. In his first televised interview since fleeing the set of his hit Comedy Central show last spring, Dave Chappelle sat down with the Queen of Daytime Friday in an attempt to explain the reasons behind his abrupt departure. With the premiere of the third season of Chappelle's Show only weeks away, the comedian suddenly vanished without explanation, forcing Comedy Central to shut down production on the series and igniting speculations that his hard-partying lifestyle had resulted in a total meltdown. ADVERTISEMENT Chappelle eventually surfaced in South Africa, where he was rumored to have checked himself into a psychiatric hospital for treatment, a report he has denied. According to the comedian, neither drugs nor insanity were behind his decision to cut and run from Chappelle's Show. Stress, on the other hand, was a major factor. "I wasn't crazy but it is incredibly stressful," Chappelle said. After Chappelle signed an unprecedented $50 million contract in August 2004, carrying him through the third and fourth seasons of Chappelle's Show, he said he began to feel like too many people were trying to control him and the direction of his show. "I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you," Chappelle said. The comedian said he finally decided a spiritual retreat was in order, though he neglected to tell anyone but his brother of his plans. "I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that?s not the way it was," he said. "I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching." After he returned from Africa, Chappelle continued to avoid the spotlight, retreating to his farm in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In June, he resumed making sporadic standup appearances around Los Angeles. The comedian told Winfrey that he had not ruled out returning to Comedy Central to complete the third and fourth seasons of Chappelle's Show--provided that some changes were made. "I do want to do my show again provided, one, I can make the proper work environment," Chappelle said. In the interest of being "socially responsible," he said he wanted to begin donating a portion of the proceeds from his DVD sales to charity. "I want to give," Chappelle said. "I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again." Comedy Central made it clear Friday that the network will welcome the return of its wayward star. "Dave is a comedic genius whose work we truly value, and the door is always open to him," the network said in a statement. In December, the network said the four episodes of Chappelle's Show completed by the comedian before his departure would hit the air this spring.
February 4, 200620 yr Author Yeah, I didn't buy what he was selling. He was too wishy-washy on too many issues and I guess he said some things that contradicted the stuff he had to "get off the table" before he went into his act at tOSU. As for the doing the show under his terms, I got the impressions that his terms would never be met. He also said he wanted to give most of the money they would offer to charity and not to his bank account (which was kind of weird) to make up for the socially unnacceptable things he says on his show. He also hated on the type of fan who sees him on the street and says "I'm Rick James, BITCH!" Which is good. Because I hate those people, too.
February 5, 200620 yr And as he left the stage, he got up and jumped all over Oprah's couch, a la Tom Cruise.
February 5, 200620 yr And as he left the stage, he got up and jumped all over Oprah's couch, a la Tom Cruise. a la "f*** YO COUCH, n***a!"
February 6, 200620 yr And as he left the stage, he got up and jumped all over Oprah's couch, a la Tom Cruise. a la "f*** YO COUCH, n***a!" That too.
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