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Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility

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Chappelle Reportedly Checks Into Facility

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer 15 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/tv_chappelle_suspended

NEW YORK - Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday.

The comedian's whereabouts and condition have been unknown since Comedy Central abruptly announced last week that the planned May 31 launch of the third season of "Chappelle's Show" had been postponed and production halted.

Chappelle flew from Newark, N.J., to South Africa on April 28 for treatment, said the magazine, quoting a source close to the show it would not identify. Entertainment Weekly said it had corroborating sources for its story.

"We don't know where he is," Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said. "We've heard about South Africa. We don't know. We haven't talked to Dave."

Chappelle's spokesman, Matt Labov, would not comment on the magazine's story.

"It seems like the issues he's contending with are really quite serious," said Dade Hayes, a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. "It isn't a case of him spending a weekend someplace recuperating from exhaustion."

The magazine's sources say Chappelle is still in the facility, which was not named, Hayes said. Chappelle's representatives have denied that the comedian was abusing drugs.

Chappelle reportedly signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central for two more seasons of his show, a payday made possible because of the explosive sales of the show's first season DVD.

The magazine said Chappelle had shot four to five episodes' worth of sketches for the new season, but none of its onstage introductions.
 
Dave Chappelle Says He's Not Crazy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/15/AR2005051500358.html

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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."
 
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I hope Dave figures things out and gets back to the show.

So since it sounds like there won't be any new shows for a while what is everyones favorite Chappelle's Show sketch of the first 2 seasons?

I love the Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories, but I think my favorite was the Wayne Brady sketch. "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?"
 
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exhawg said:
I hope Dave figures things out and gets back to the show.

So since it sounds like there won't be any new shows for a while what is everyones favorite Chappelle's Show sketch of the first 2 seasons?

I love the Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories, but I think my favorite was the Wayne Brady sketch. "Does Wayne Brady have to choke a bitch?"
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Definately the Charile Murphy series.......Rick James and Prince (then he served us some Pancakes). Wayne Brady was also classic (break yourself fools, it's Wayne Brady).

I also think the skit when he talks about everything being cooler in slow motion was pretty freakin funny. Especially when they show him taking a shit, and when he farts it blows up the toilet and sends him flying through the air. The first time I saw that one my wife and I were laughing so hard that I spit my beer out.

From the way it sounds, it's almost as if Dave is having problems coming up with good material. I'm sure he's under a shit load of pressure from the network with the amount of money they are paying him. I'm also assuming that he has a lot of yes men working around the set who tell him what he wants to hear......regardless if it's funny. From the things that I have read about him in the past, it sounds like he's a perfectionist and will shoot a skit over and over until he gets it perfect. I'm sure this issue is causing the problems on his set right now.

Come back Dave, but do it your way. Last thing we need is the network taking over his show.
 
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Now that I think about it the only thing I don't really get into are the musical guests.

Trading Spouses was another good one, until Fox and ABC decided that they should actually make the real show.
 
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My personal favorites include what you all said already with Wayne Brady, choke a ho and "Wayne Brady makes Bryant Gumble seem like Malcolm X" then of course Prince playing basketball and serving pancakes afterwards.

Those not mentioned has to be the Race Draft with Tiger saying "Fo Shizzle" and then of course the Niggar Family.

About him running off, If anything he just has a ton of pressure to put together another great show and from what it seems it is after he already taped 3-4 shows. He either looked back at them and thought they sucked or people around him started being "yes men" and he felt even more pressure.
 
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I have Sirius Sattelite radio, and Jim Brewer has a show at 4pm on Raw Dog (a comedy channel). He talked about how controlling Comedy Central can be, and that Dave has been fighting with them over the content of the sketches on the show. Sounds like Dave got tired of fighting and needed a break.

I bet he finishes out the contract and tells CC to f off.
 
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scott91575 said:
I have Sirius Sattelite radio, and Jim Brewer has a show at 4pm on Raw Dog (a comedy channel). He talked about how controlling Comedy Central can be, and that Dave has been fighting with them over the content of the sketches on the show. Sounds like Dave got tired of fighting and needed a break.

I bet he finishes out the contract and tells CC to f off.
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That's what I'm assuming also. If you watch Insomniac I think the same thing is happening there........what a shame...........that show cracks my shit up.
 
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