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Dave Chappelle

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  1. “All right, so here we go. This is what we'll do. I want to restructure the deal. You keep the, no, don't keep nothing We're going to work. We're going to get the proper foundations. We're going to figure it out. Half of the DVD revenue, if we can make a deal where I have the control that I like and half the DVD revenue goes back to the people. We see I think I'd be more than willing to finish with what we started. And the other thing I want to say is this. I get a little heated when I talk about the past, but I wanted to be clear, I'm not mad at anybody. Not anymore. And whoever was working on the show that wants to come back, as far as I'm concerned, you're more than welcome.”

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  2. “I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again I want to finish the season. I want to give the money to someone that's not exploiting me. And if it can benefit the people, how awesome would that be if people buy the DVD? They say they're doing it for charity. So even if I say something socially irresponsible, it's going to a socially responsible cause.”

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  3. “I'd finish the season, but what I'm asking is something more from the audience than the network. I'm trying to unload this money. Back to the people that supported me. Listen, I mean, listen, listen. Have this vision of giving the money back to the people who suffer in Katrina and just, you know, people who need the money and I can get back to my high school.”

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  4. “I do want to do my show again. Provided one, I can make the proper work environment, right? More importantly, I want to give I almost want to do it. Listen, my deal, the reason I got $50 million is because I get half of the back end network gets half. I get half. But what I want to do is I would like to contribute my half for the DVD revenue to some of these calls. I'd rather give them money to the people.”

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  5. “Well I've been thinking about this the whole time, and I've been like a pendulum. I'll never go back. And then it swings back to like, I can't walk away from $50 million. And then I'll be like, I'll never go back and blah, blah, blah. But this is what I've been thinking about. You know, you were speaking about being part of the problem. And that part of the solution. With great power comes great responsibility. Okay, let me tell you this. Here's a scenario that I could come back to the show. I can't believe I'm saying this, but this is what I want to do.”

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  6. “In a respect, yes. It wasn't like I was fleeing the scene like because I wasn't scared of going to work It was just, it just felt awful. I don't want to play these tit for tat games. I don't want people negotiating with me in the press. Sit down at the table with me. Let's talk to me like I'm a man. Respect me. Everyone did great from the show. I don't want to read about Neil's opinion in Time magazine if I'm your buddy. Call me. I did not disrespect anybody. And that's why I was upset.”

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  7. “Oh gosh, this guy's so difficult. They leave. Now the producers comes, come on, David would be so great. I mean, and then I started thinking about all the comics that I've seen, man, you know, strong brothers, why they be putting us in these dresses. But the minute it was clear, I was adamant, I'm not wearing a dress. I'm not wearing the dress. All right, fine. Think of something else. Guy comes back 10 minutes later. There's a whole new sense. Damn, how did you write the scene so fast? You know, it's like, so you got to take a”

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  8. “And he put this dress on, and prostitute, no, I'm not doing that. I don't feel comfortable with it. That should have been in the discussion. You don't feel comfortable with it. I mean, it's a hilarious bit. All the greats have done it. So, well, if all the greats have done it, it's kind of hacky, right? You're right. So why don't we just not do it? Because I don't feel comfortable wearing a dress. Oh, come on, Dave. Listen, we got it all set up. We're supposed to shoot every minute you waste costs this much money. You know, the pressure comes in. And now I'm not wearing no dress, man. I'm funnier than a dress. Just give me something funny to say. I don't even wear no dress to be funny. Am I Milton Burrow? You know, we're going like this. And then finally he's like, ah, and he leaves. And then the director comes, Dave, but really would be great if you wear the dress. What is wrong? What is this broke back mountain in here?”

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  9. “When we was doing that sketching that guy laughed, I felt like, man, I felt like they got me. They got me. I mean, I'm a conspiracy theorist to a degree. When I connect dots that maybe shouldn't be connected, I don't know, but certain dots, like when I see that they put every black man in the movie's in a dress at some point in their career, I'll be connecting them down like, why are all these brothers got to wear a dress? This happened to me. I'm doing a movie with Martin. The movie's going good. So I walk in a trailer. I'm like, man, this must be the wrong trailer because there's a dressing here. They come in, the writer comes in. I think he's the writer. He's like, Dave, listen, you got this hilarious scene where Martin's sneaking out of jail. So he disguises you as a prostitute.”

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  10. “Show business has to do with compromise and wearing the mask, you know, when they say black folks wear that mask. You walk in that boardroom. It's not, you don't walk in the boardroom like, what's poppin', baby? You know, you gotta be, you got to put that mask on. And, you know, it's like we're bilingual. We speak job interview and we speak when we speak around each other. You know what I'm saying?”

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  11. “I'm that guy. And what's so funny about being that guy is when people actually see you, they talk to you like nothing's wrong. Like, hey, man, how are you doing? Well, I'm not crazy. You know, I read something about that. I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day. And that's not the way it was. I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. Like if I feel so bad, why I keep showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody's watching.”

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  12. “From these people. And just running with it was on everything. As a fact Everyone's saying I'm crazy and all this stuff, and it's kind of like, uh oh, I better be seen. So I came back and I went home and for like the first two weeks I was Bigfoot, man. It was like everywhere I went, it was like, there it goes. It was crazy. And then I come home and see the stuff I did that day on the news, like comedian Dave Chappelle was riding his bike. I was like, damn, how did they? I thought about all the celebrities I seen scams. I was like, oh my god, I'm one of these people now. Like one of these people, you know, I tell jokes about people in these scandals, everything. I was like, I'm the dude right now.”

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  13. “I got to get people thinking all right, who goes from America to Africa? For medical attention. I cannot imagine. Does it sound like the most irresponsible journalism in the world? I cannot imagine. Being a journalist and hearing this.”

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  14. “Sure. First of all, what is a black man without his paranoia and tank? If you get, you might win $100 in a poker game and be on. They just said in everything. I had $50 million. That's like making me a marked man.”

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  15. “Thought was strange that the whole media was dumping on me and he had a quote like they was spinning out of control. It's like, dude, they call me a crack hit. Why didn't you say Dave doesn't do drugs? Come on, buddy. Tell him. He was partying too much. I don't go out. Tell And his quote was Dave is spinning out of control.”

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  16. “I mean, he could have been, but. What was the vitamin love, Oprah? What is the vitamin? I didn't need a note or a car, you know, and I feel like maybe it's cultural. Usually, when my friends are in trouble, I”

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  17. “I haven't heard from him. We spoke once. A month ago, and I called him. He didn't call me if he was that concerned about me. I just didn't get the call. I kept the same cell phone number. People I didn't know was calling me. But it's like, Neil, you my buddy, man. You know what I'm saying? Call a brother if you're so worried. So no, I don't think he was worried at all.”

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  18. “No, that's the thing that I always read that makes me mad. No, it was the fame. Couldn't stand the fame. Love being famous It's phenomenal. When I came out here and everybody was like, Hooray, I was like,”

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  19. “Yeah, I don't care who you think you are or how you think you do it. You cannot imagine what celebrities go through. As far as how your integrity and your self image and all this thing”

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  20. “What I wasn't paying attention, I felt really guilty about being asleep at the wheel. Felt guilty by it because I forgot the hostility of the environment of showbiz. It's not a docile environment. It's a challenging environment. You know, and there's some quote that someone had told me that success takes you where character cannot sustain you.”

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  21. “We have family friends down there. And three, I just felt like it was a place where I could really. Just a place that I got to go.”

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  22. “She was gonna know. I basically called my brother and I gave him a list. She called so-and-so and so and so and so and so. And I took off. Then I called my”

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  23. “So I figured it wasn't that I didn't tell my wife. It was like, I'm not telling her until after I'm gone, which was a mistake, but it wasn't a crazy mistake. It's just a dude.”

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  24. “That sound It's not crazy because the situation kind of warranted it. Because certain people around me were putting my sanity in question, I would meet too much obstruction if I would say I'm doing something like that.”

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  25. “Nah, well, no, I called my brother And my brother, real cool. I called him up, was like, I'm going Africa. He was like, cool, man. It's good.”

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  26. “There's no question, but Very stressful for someone to constantly walk behind you and say You're insane. Oh hey, how about this? I showed the work the first week where my office used to be, they built a wall there. But it came out later that they were like, Well, they said you wanted it. I don't want to be walled up at the office. I like hanging out and talking.”

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  27. “I had to sit walking because I went back to work and the vitamin Love was gone because it was a real ugly negotiation. It's a situation where now everybody's taking credit for this and that and the other. It's all getting ridiculous. And I knew I was going to leave. So I got ahead of schedule and I bounced. And I didn't tell anybody where I was going. The whole time they're trying to convince me I'm insane. They were trying to get me to take psychotic medication. Yeah. Like I'm sitting around, you know, I was stressed out, but the people that were telling me I was insane, I believe that they knew what was going on. So this was troublesome. I'm not taking this medicine, man, because I know these people be trying to control you or maybe discredit you. I was afraid, like, you know.”

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  28. “Manipulate me. Sounds like somebody's trying to put young Dave in a compromising position. Okay, so now I got worse. And when I said, I'm not going to do it, then all of a sudden it was like, well, now he has walking pneumonia. And then I knew long before I walked, I had considered walking.”

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  29. “That was the first tipping point. And then they put in the paper that I had pneumonia, or God knows what It was walking pneumonia because I was walking all over the place. I was relaxing and then after that I was coming back to the show and then they were like well Dave, you know you should just back up the pneumonia store and I was like you know that was your thing I'm not I'm not backing up a pneumonia story and then the next day was in the paper that I had writer's block then I knew something was getting ready stressful because I hadn't even started writing I was on the schedule to write so I was like what's You know, what's going on?”

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  30. “This is the thing. I'm a comedian. Now, nobody watches a comedian to see how socially responsible they're going to be. I mean, it's not like I'm not absolving myself of being socially responsible.”

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  31. “I know all these people be watching TV that there's a lot of people who will understand exactly what I'm doing. Then there's another group of people who are just fans like the people, the kind of people that scream, I'm Rick James B at my concerts That this along for a different kind of celebrity worship ride, they're gonna get something.”

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  32. “So then, when I'm on the set and we're finally taping the sketch, somebody on the set that was white laughed in such a way, I know the difference of people laughing with me and people laughing at me. And it was the first time I'd ever got a laugh that I was uncomfortable with. Not just uncomfortable, but like, should I fire this person? And at the same time, I'm just not a naturally assertive person.”

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  33. “This is one sketch we did that was about this Pixie that would appear whenever racist things happen, whenever someone makes you feel like they calling you that N-word. But don't say it. And it was funny. And the premise of the sketch was that every race had this pixie, this racial complex. But the pixie was in blackface. Now, blackface is a very difficult image, but the reason I chose in Blackface at the town was because this was going to be the visual personification of the N-word. It was a good spiritual intention behind it. What I didn't consider is how many people watch the show and how the way people use television is subjective.”

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  34. “The more they You make that real money. They lost their minds. I thought they were crazy. It was like you gotta do everything. So I got all these things. Then I got your own personal problems that get inflamed when this kind of money comes in. And I got to write a show and do the show. And I was overwhelmed. And it was almost like, I don't know, it was almost as if this was happening deliberately.”

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  35. “Save for your handlers, for instance. A lot of these people traditionally get paid on percentage basis. The more you work?”

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  36. “Where do I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt like I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed. So it's like you get a flooded with things and you don't pay attention to things like your ethics. Or when you get so overwhelmed, it was like he won the lottery.”

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  37. “No, no, not at all. Not at all. I'm telling you, I was incredibly stressed out, you know, love is like a nutrient. And I was deficient on vitamin love.”

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  38. “That's what I was thinking Yeah. You know, so this is the thing. All these arguments. Davey got cut the poop joke, and it was a lot of discussions about we know what our audience wants. I was like, eh, whatever. And I mean, they were wrong 100% of the time. As far as what people would like. And the show is an incredibly hard show to do. That's the other thing. The Chappelle show was, I mean, it's fun and all these things, but there's a tremendous amount of work that goes into making a show like that.”

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  39. “So now suddenly, this is a bigger money making they throw. It's already making money, but now sending us a whole new revenue stream and my contract's up. So we finished the season. So now, you know, this show is gaining popularity with ratings up every week. The toast of the town. And when the season starts ending, you know, you get the question So, Dave, what are you gonna do and blah, blah, blah? And I knew to be real tight-lipped about it. You know, it wasn't like Comedy Central was a hot place to be when I showed up there.”

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  40. “I'll give you an example. The first season ends. And in the middle of the seasons, there was a renegotiation. Ultimately, through a series of events and a little pressure, I ended up settling for way less than what I want and going forward. And then in season two, the DVDs released, and it sets all these incredible records. Turns out the back-million.”

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  41. “First of all, yeah, but. I don't want to make it as a thing where I'm absolving myself of any responsibility of it. Obviously, I'm partially responsible. You know, a lot of it has to do with me.”

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  42. “Yeah, okay, well, Oprah, I did two very successful seasons before that. So while all of a sudden on the third time in Africa by myself, like what's happening?”

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  43. “Not exactly I wasn't crazy, but it's incredibly stressful. And I feel like in a lot of instances, I was deliberately being put through stress because, you know, when you're a guy that generates money, People have a vested interest in controlling it.”

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  44. “I mean, you see before, look at Moron Carey made a $100 million deal, and three months later, she's all of a sudden mysteriously crazier. Or Martin Lawrence punches through and he's waving a gun on the street screaming. They're trying to kill me.”

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  45. “Well I wasn't walking away from the money. Was walking away from the circumstances. They were coming with the newfound plateau. Takes a while when you punch through to adjust to the atmosphere. It was completely outside of my frame of reference. I've been in show business since I was 14, and I've heard the stories. Of what happens, and I've seen these kinds of things play out in front of me”

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