i just caught an article on MSN about the Time one.
http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/arti...91186>1=6542
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i just caught an article on MSN about the Time one.
http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/arti...91186>1=6542
From what I hear he is a cool guy. A couple years ago he was visiting the African American muesem that is a couple blocks from my apartment. A couple friends of mine saw him, talked to him for a bit and then he smoked a joint with them at their apartment which is right near the muesem. They took pictures and shit but he made sure not to have the joint in his hands in the pictures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
That was before he was mega-famous. I'd imagine he wouldn't do the same thing now.
Today is the day Season 2 dvd hits, did any one pick it up?? Thoughts? I gotta wait until Friday to pick it up.
i picked it up at Circuit City using their price match guarantee. only, they didn't give me that "extra 10% of the difference". haven't watched it yet since i got home not too long ago from work, but it's the first thing i do after checking on a few things.
For those who haven't read the article (I personally sometimes become a slouch when it comes to following links so I know how it is):
http://www.time.com/time/arts/articl...061415,00.html
Whether or not it was wise to ditch the show altogether, seems like a legit explanation to me.Quote:
The first thing Chappelle wants is to dispel rumors—that he's got a drug problem, that he's checked into a mental institution in Durban—that have been flying around the U.S. for the past week. He says he is staying with a friend, Salim, and not in a mental institution, as has been widely reported in America. Chappelle says he is in South Africa to find "a quiet place" for a while. "Let me tell you the things I can do here which I can't at home: think, eat, sleep, laugh. I'm an introspective dude. I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. And I've been doing a lot of thinking here."
The picture he paints—and it seems a fairly honest and frank assessment— is of someone struggling to come to terms with a new position and power who's still figuring out how to come to grips with how people around him are reacting to the $50 million deal he signed last year with Comedy Central. Without naming specific characters, he seems to blame both some of his inner circle (not his family) and himself for the stresses created by last year's deal.
"There were things that overwhelmed me," he says. "But not in the way that people are saying. I haven't spent any of the money. All that stuff about partying and taking crack is not true. Why do I live on a farm in Ohio? To support my partying lifestyle?"
The problems, he says, started with his inner circle."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 says. "Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius!'; 'You're great!'; 'That's your voice!' But I'm not sure that they're right." And he stresses that Comedy Central was not part of the problem and put no more than normal television restrictions on what he could do.
"You got to be careful of the company you keep," Chappelle says. "It's hard to know how much to say. One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
"During my ascent, I've seen other people go through that wall to become really big. They always said that fame didn't change them but that it changes the people around them. You always hear that but you never really understand it. But now that I'm there that makes a lot of sense and I'm learning what that means. You have to have people around you that you can trust and aren't just out for a meal ticket."
The breakdown in trust within his inner circle seems to have led him to question the material they were producing. He seems obsessed with making sure the material is good and honest and something that he will be proud. "I want to make sure I'm dancing and not shuffling," he says. "What ever decisions I make right now I'm going to have live with. Your soul is priceless." The first two seasons of his show "had a real spirit to them," he says. "I want to make sure whatever I do has spirit."
But Chappelle also says that he must share the blame for the stalled third season. "I'm admittedly a human being," he says. "I'm a difficult kind of dude. (continued)"
During most of the hour and a half that we talk, Chappelle is serious and introspective. But he still has his sense of humor, which comes out as we near the end of our conversation: "Is that enough to prove I'm not smoking crack or hanging out in a mental institution?"
I'm not big on dirty/profane humor but Tyrone the Crack Dealer and I plead the Fizzifth were HI-larious.
Doesn't look like we'll be seeing Season 3 any time soon...
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Originally Posted by IMDB
Got the season 2 dvd last Friday for $15 ($20 at BB plus $5 reward zone coupon) and it was nice to see all the skits uncensored. Has any one picked this up yet??
I watched the whole thing minus the 3rd disc.
-Negrodamus is a cool concept but each and every one of Paul Mooney's jokes fell flat. "Ask a Black Dude" was a better sketch.
-The Racial Draft sucks
-A bunch of sketches here and there fell flat
-The Robot dancing guy should have his own show
-The titties in the Rick James sketch were censored
-I can't imagine watching this show with bleeps anymore.
That said, I'm happy with my purchase.
You're right about Negrodamus. Much potential but it just didn't make me laugh like "Ask a Black Dude" They should have kept doing "Mooney on Movies" now that was hilarous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Revoltor
Awww, censored titties =(
I thought the racial draft had some good jokes in it.
"OJ black again", then they do the finger thing.
"This is the first time black people have won a lottery."
"Yeah, and I bet they'll still complain."