Dave Chappelle Makes First TV Appearance Since Disappearance

didnt see much of it. did they discuss the skit where he gets her (Oprah)pregnant? "Gotcha Bitch"

 

from eurweb.com

“Love is like a nutrient," comedian Dave Chappelle told Oprah Winfrey during a show that aired Friday (Feb. 3). As he hit the audience with exaggerated puppy dog eyes, he said of his sudden departure from his Comedy Central show: “I was deficient on vitamin love.”

In Chappelle’s mind, the vitamin deficiency – coupled with the reaction of people around him following his $50 million deal with Comedy Central for “Chappelle’s Show,” and the wrong laugh of one staffer during a racially-charged skit – was enough to send him running from a record-setting contract with the network; leaving the successful series just before the premiere of its third season and taking a “spiritual retreat” in South Africa.

When asked by Winfrey if he had “lost his mind,” as reports suggested at the time of his departure, Chappelle said: "No, not exactly. When you're a person who makes money, they have a vested interest in controlling you. … It's the way people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and your mind ... it infuriates me.”

Chappelle also denied that he had been on drugs or spent time in an African psychiatric hospital. He told Winfrey that his brother was the only person he told of his trip before leaving, and his brother was given the job of notifying others, including his wife and children. Chappelle chose Africa as his destination, he said, because he "needed a break" and it was "a place where I could really reflect."

Asked by Winfrey if he had grown paranoid, Chappelle said, "What's a black man without his paranoia attack? I had $50 million. That's like making me a marked man."

He said the producers of his show were "wrong 100 percent of the time about what people would like," and described the production process as a "tremendous amount of work" that completely stressed him out.

“I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible," he said, citing a skit for the third season in which a pixie in blackface appears to a character as “the visual personification of the N-word.’” As Chappelle was taping the sketch, he said someone on the set laughed in a way that made him know he was being laughed at and not laughed with.

"It was the first time I've gotten a laugh I was uncomfortable with," he said. "I don't want black people to be disappointed in me for putting that out." While Chappelle said the incident was a tipping point to his departure, he admitted that it wasn’t the first time he had thought about leaving.

"Long before I walked I had considered walking," he said.

When asked if he would ever return to “Chapelle’s Show,” he said he would consider it only if certain changes were made, including having complete control of the program, and ensuring that a portion of the DVD sales go toward charity.

He told Winfrey: “I want to restructure the deal ... Half of the DVD revenue, if we can make a deal where I have the control of that …half the DVD revenue goes back to the people that we see fit.”

“I want to give money to someone who's not exploiting me," he added, so that if he does something "socially irresponsible" in his comedy, at least the money will go to a socially responsible cause. Under those conditions, Chappelle said he would consider a return to Comedy Central.

“I think I'd be more than willing to finish with where we started,” he said.

Friday afternoon, Comedy Central responded in a statement: "Dave is a comedic genius whose work we truly value and our door will always be open to him."

 

Money, the root of all fucking evil, Bitches. Don't let it play you.

 

Its the love of money that is evil..........see POTUS, COTUS, SCOTUS, corporate board rooms, etc....