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I think it's time that we admit the truth about the Chappelle Show
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That's actually a good example, but; minstrel show/c00nin' is too strong a word based on the fact, there was a lot of social commentary, on the show.
Born2BKing
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Well correct me, what would you call it?
Malik
Superstar
Chappelle wasn't c00nery, it was satire. Learn the difference.
Like alot of people said, the show got too big and he realized his viewership was alot of whites, who obliviously took what was supposed to be a criticism against racism and stereotypes of minorities and turned it in "let's laugh at the nikkas"
That coupled with the producers probably breathing down his back to amp up the racial jokes (e.g. not every set he did was racial) and he couldn't do it anymore. At 15 or 16, I couldn't understand how anybody could turn down $50 million. As a grown man, I salute that cat. Once you lose your integrity, its gone 
Like alot of people said, the show got too big and he realized his viewership was alot of whites, who obliviously took what was supposed to be a criticism against racism and stereotypes of minorities and turned it in "let's laugh at the nikkas"
That coupled with the producers probably breathing down his back to amp up the racial jokes (e.g. not every set he did was racial) and he couldn't do it anymore. At 15 or 16, I couldn't understand how anybody could turn down $50 million. As a grown man, I salute that cat. Once you lose your integrity, its gone
Born2BKing
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Chappelle wasn't c00nery, it was satire. Learn the difference.
Like alot of people said, the show got too big and he realized his viewership was alot of whites, who obliviously took what was supposed to be a criticism against racism and stereotypes of minorities and turned it in "let's laugh at the nikkas"
Yeah I do as well and it wasn't intentional what happened to the show. I think when he started off he thought he would have more of an urban audience and then it took off with every demographic and things got out of hand from there. Still the greatest sketch comedy show ever.
I never understood why he couldn't stick it out for the two years and collect the 50. It's not like he couldn't have had more input into the direction of the show he was the star. I think the show just got too big and in his heart he is a standup comedian.
muzikfrk75
#4080
no lie I was in Yellowstone national park (i worked there for a couple summers), and Dave Chappelle came through the hotel. Even there, in the middle of fukking nowhere people were doing the lil john shyt to him, and crowding around him.
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Just admit it offends your sensibilities about how blacks should be portrayed
Comically speakin', Dave didn't always use the "ghetto black" as a crutch, when black ppl were the "joke," on his show.
A minstrel show indicates a trend, IMO.
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
so it wasn't "c00nery" then? it was the fault of much of the mass audience that interpreted it as a minstrel show? so...if you see the show as such...it's your fault and not dave's??
Majestic Pape
The-Coli = W SOHH = L
I'm starting to think none of y'all even knew who Dave Chappelle was before that show. Anybody who saw his standup PRIOR to that show could have seen this coming. All he talked about was how he DIDN'T want to become famous and how he couldn't handle fame. I'm not surprised that when he actually became ultra famous he skated off.
The Chappelle show was FARRRRR from c00nery. It was comedic-Satire
He did a brilliant job at educating people who didn't give a f*ck about education by playing into the negative sh*t that they did care about. Chris Rock tells a lot of socially aware jokes too, but wasn't as successful with a younger audience as Dave was because of the way he approached it. Dave went "crazy" because he was reaching a wide audience and slowly, but surely forcing them to ask questions they wouldn't normally ask. Like the famous saying goes: it's not the people inside the church who needs saving. If he would have been doing the things he was doing without actually dropping jewels THEN it would have been c00nery, but there was clearly a method to his madness. Dave is FARRRR from crazy; he knew exactly what he was doing, but when the powers that be caught on to what he was doing that's when sh*t got "crazy", You don't get offered 50mil without having some very powerful people interested in you. If you watch some of his interviews post-Chappelle show when he talks about "crossing an economic threshold" and things of that nature you can read between the lines.
Inside The Actors Studio - Dave Chappelle - YouTube
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TheBigBopper
Banned
I don't see how it's c00ning. Chappelle shat on every race in the show equally
Constantine
Et in Arcadia ego...
Carter G Woodson said if you can control a mans mind, you don't have to tell him to go through the back of the door, he'll go on his own accord. I knew that was why he quit the show, I was in the car with my brother, and he said my father had the same theory. All of my brothers, and sisters loved it, but I could never bring myself to watch it.
. Got everybody tap dancing in this bytch 