Chappelle Show 3rd Season Production Halted!!!

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » May 6, 2005, 12:09 pm

HOLY SHEET

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/0 ... index.html

was supposed to debut 5/31......now word?!??!

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » May 6, 2005, 12:14 pm

CC is still advertising the new season for 5/31. Im pretty sure they finished a couple of episodes before that. His last season had like what, 12 episodes? I figure hes made a couple already.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » May 6, 2005, 12:18 pm

yeah they've got some completed, the point is though if there are some seriously production issues between Chappelle's team and Comedy Central, I doubt Chappelle is going to let them air the show (yeah i think he has that much leverage based on the 3rd season dollar figures - though i'm totallly talking out of my ass).

Trek · Post by **Trek** » May 6, 2005, 9:25 pm

Rumor I heard is that Dave is basically MIA. Even tho there are a lot of shows that are complete there is no Chappelle to do the thing with the live audience. I hope it works itself out but it sounds like Dave might get sued, might get nasty

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » May 7, 2005, 3:04 am

this could really piss me off

Truant · Post by **Truant** » May 9, 2005, 9:45 am

I'm betting my farm on, he's perfectly fine, and this is all a genius fucking move to get everyone on the entire planet to tune in to the show

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » May 9, 2005, 1:42 pm

Truant wrote:I'm betting my farm on, he's perfectly fine, and this is all a genius fucking move to get everyone on the entire planet to tune in to the show

lets start a PR firm!

miir · Post by **miir** » May 9, 2005, 1:46 pm

OH NOS!, where are all the white kids gonna get their catchphrases this year?

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » May 9, 2005, 1:53 pm

miir wrote:OH NOS!, where are all the white kids gonna get their catchphrases this year?

Well, there is still Napoleon Dynamite!

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 9, 2005, 1:56 pm

Canelek wrote:
miir wrote:OH NOS!, where are all the white kids gonna get their catchphrases this year?
Well, there is still Napoleon Dynamite!

Your mom goes to college.

miir · Post by **miir** » May 9, 2005, 3:39 pm

Canelek wrote:
miir wrote:OH NOS!, where are all the white kids gonna get their catchphrases this year?
Well, there is still Napoleon Dynamite!

That was last year...

Niffoni · Post by **Niffoni** » May 9, 2005, 4:03 pm

miir wrote:
Canelek wrote:
miir wrote:OH NOS!, where are all the white kids gonna get their catchphrases this year?
Well, there is still Napoleon Dynamite!
That was last year...

We ARE talking about white kids.

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » May 9, 2005, 4:10 pm

last year....you're the one with the "cowbell" joke in your title!

miir · Post by **miir** » May 9, 2005, 4:45 pm

Voronwë wrote:last year....you're the one with the "cowbell" joke in your title!

I'm rick james, bitch!

Ransure · Post by **Ransure** » May 9, 2005, 7:47 pm

Whats wrong with cowbell?...

Nick · Post by **Nick** » May 9, 2005, 7:51 pm

I watched Napoleon Dynamite earlier on for the first time.

It was the most unfunny thing I think I have ever seen.

Funkmasterr · Post by **Funkmasterr** » May 9, 2005, 8:08 pm

No, the most unfunny thing is that stupid will ferrel cowbell thing in his SNL audition.. Or anything with him in it. Or with chris farley in it.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » May 9, 2005, 9:18 pm

hmm, contract negotiations?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 9, 2005, 11:05 pm

I think he had just renegotiated after last season. I remember reading something about him getting a percentage of the sales of the full season DVD's as part of it.

Brotha · Post by **Brotha** » May 10, 2005, 3:06 pm

Saw this on the Drudge Report the other day:

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

miir · Post by **miir** » May 10, 2005, 3:16 pm

Funkmasterr wrote:No, the most unfunny thing is that stupid will ferrel cowbell thing in his SNL audition.. Or anything with him in it. Or with chris farley in it.

If I disagree will you spit in my face and then shoot me?

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » May 10, 2005, 5:16 pm

From brotha's link

May 16 issue - "I'm so sorry," says Dave Chappelle, chuckling as he shakes hands with a visiting journalist. "This is a terrible way to meet a person." It is late afternoon and Chappelle has a long night of work ahead, so the introduction is a bit rushed. But more than likely, he's referring to the fact that he's covered in blackface, with white painted lips, white gloves, a red vest, a black cane and a Pullman Porter cap. Yes, that's definitely it. It is November 2004, just a few weeks into shooting on the third season of "Chappelle's Show"—a process that will soon become far more tortured than anyone ever expected. At the moment, though, all is tranquil. Today's scenes are part of a delicately titled sketch, "The N----r Pixie,"

ok, I have officialy died.

Zaelath · Post by **Zaelath** » May 10, 2005, 7:35 pm

miir wrote:
Funkmasterr wrote:No, the most unfunny thing is that stupid will ferrel cowbell thing in his SNL audition.. Or anything with him in it. Or with chris farley in it.
If I disagree will you spit in my face and then shoot me?

I must have missed this famous post.. was it anything to do with spitting on people he's rear-ended?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » May 11, 2005, 10:42 pm

Whoa, interesting infoz:

http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1059677_3_0_,00.html

Comedian Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa and has remained there since late April, according to a source close to the situation. The same source denies rumors of drug abuse. Other sources have also told EW that the future of Chappelle's Show — the hit Comedy Central series that was entering its third season — is more uncertain than the network has suggested.

Comedy Central last week made a hasty announcement that the show's third season, already delayed from its planned February start, had been postponed again. The network said it remained ''optimistic'' that production could resume. The highly rated sketch series has been a huge moneymaker for Viacom, which owns Comedy Central. Its second season is about to be released on DVD, on the heels of first-season sales that made it the top-selling television DVD in history.

Thanks in large part to the DVD sales, Chappelle last year netted a $50 million deal for co-writing and starring in the show. Sketches to fill about four episodes in the third season have been taped, but Chappelle's interstitial material with live audiences has not. The fate of the sketches has not been determined.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » May 12, 2005, 1:28 pm

Not looking good for Mr. Chappelle. I've read a couple of other sources on this, and it looks like he had some sort of mental meltdown.

Waran · Post by **Waran** » May 15, 2005, 4:46 pm

New news on the AP wire about Chappelle:

AP wrote:NEW YORK - Comedian Dave Chappelle wants to set things straight: "I'm not crazy, I'm not smoking crack," he tells Time magazine in an interview more than a week after his hit Comedy Central show was suspended and the rumors started to fly.

"I'm definitely stressed out," said Chappelle, who took off last month to South Africa for a "spiritual retreat," leaving his fans — and even his agent and publicist — wondering where he went.

"You hear so many voices jockeying for position in your mind that you want to make sure that you hear your own voice," he said. "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 the brakes."

After Comedy Central announced that the planned May 31 debut of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported that Chappelle had checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa.

"I'm not in a mental facility," said Chappelle, who also said he did not have a drug problem but had consulted a psychiatrist for one 40-minute visit.

The 31-year-old comedian said he fled to stay with friends in Durban because he wasn't happy with the direction of the show, which is behind only "South Park" as Comedy Central's most-watched program.

"There's a lot of resistance to my opinions, so I decided, 'Let me remove myself from this situation,'" Chappelle said.

Comedy Central president Doug Herzog told Time that the star has "complete creative freedom." He has told staff he believes there won't be a "Chappelle's Show" in 2005, but leaves the option open for the comedian's return.

Chappelle, whose wife and two children live in Ohio, said he hopes to start up the show again, but did not indicate when he would return.

Comedy Central had inked a reported $50 million deal to keep "Chappelle's Show" for two more seasons, and the comedian hinted to Time about struggles associated with the power and fame that come with that kind of success.

"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 said. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius, you're great, that's your voice,' but I'm not sure that they're right."

Xatrei · Post by **Xatrei** » May 15, 2005, 6:16 pm

More...

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0 ... 15,00.html

noel · Post by **noel** » May 16, 2005, 2:54 pm

Bleh: Can't delete in this forum.