From a recent WaPo article on Comedy Central's decision to unleash the four episodes of material not yet aired:
Chappelle told Time he took that first break because he felt the show had moved from sending up racial stereotypes to reinforcing them.
When he returned, however, that had not changed, according to his writing partner at the time, Neal Brennan. Brennan told Time that Chappelle would like an idea; it would be shot, but Chappelle would then say, "This sketch is racist, and I don't want this on the air."
"He was calling his own writing racist," Brennan said.
I can't help but thinking of his blind black man who joins the KKK sketch when reading that quote.
But, it's such a great show, all I have to say to Dave Chappelle is, Get back to work, Biiiiyyyaaatttccchhhh!
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I'm not sure I've ever laughed harder at a tv show than I did at the "Rick James: True Hollywood Stories" episode. Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
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