"Chappelle's Show" Shut Down
By Charlie Amter
Wed May 4, 7:08 PM ET
Chappelle's Show is a no go, ****!
In a surprise announcement Wednesday, Comedy Central announced that the highly anticipated third season of Dave Chappelle's 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.
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.
Featuring Chappelle's often raunchy standup, offbeat sketches and **** parodies of Prince and Rick James, Chappelle's Show has steadily built a huge following since its January 2003. By the end of season two, the half-hour show was often pulling in more than 3 million viewers, a substantial number for basic cable. The first season currently ranks as the all-time top-selling TV show on DVD. (Paramount has indefinitely pushed back the release of the second season--the studio hopes to time the DVD to the start of season three.)
In addition to his gig at Comedy Central, Chappelle had been working on a book for Hyperion. No word on the book's status; there's also no word on the reported Rick James biopic for Paramount in which Chappelle would portray the late R&B wild man.
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I liked his show, my fave epsisode is the STD one as well. I liked his show b/c he wasn't afraid to push the bar. The lil crackhead skits were funny too. Rick James and Prince skits are unforgettble "Pancakes?...****" I hope everything pans out
LOL! Wow... probably. Crack KILLS... it kills your neurons... it kills your neurons. I want him to be a positive role model, not a national icon of stupidity.
i think he's empowering white people to make jokes about us that they wouldn't have made 5 years ago...
i don't know if "empowering" is the right word...i'm a college dropout...8-)
Ok maybe it was a lil minstrelish....Oh well... I can find most things funny
Therefore, I loved the show! Will I miss it? Not really.
But I will be happy when it comes back on.
in africana studies class, we were talking about reparations(our class was half black, half white), and almost ALLLLLL the black folks started doin the "Pay me Back, I'M RICH, BI+CH!" skit and were laughin at themselves. I'm like its funny, but NOT IN CLASS and not when u around white people.
my take on the show:
Amos&Andy, Step&FetchIt 2004?=Sure
Over the top, profane?=Affirmative
Overuse of racial jokes?=No doubt
BUT YOU STILL HAD TO WATCH THE SHOW MORE THAN ONCE TO BE ABLE TO TELL US WHICH ONE IS YA FAVORITE!!! SO LEAVE HIM ALONE. HE'S RICH. B!TCH.
