The “Lost Episodes” premier July 9th.
ugh…mind of mencia just won’t die.
Not only did Dave leave the TV world without a proper season, he left a hole that Comedy Central is so desperately hoping Mencia can fill.
So far, he has failed miserably. Consistently one of the most unfunniest shows on tv. I don’t understand why yelling your punchlines and making the “retard sound” is funny
not to mention the fact that virtually every comedian considers Mencia a ridiculuos joke thief and the fact that he plays like he’s mexican but is 0% Mexican and is actually half German and his real last name is Holness.
Back to Chappelle, I actually partially buy his reasons for walking away for 50 million dollars being that when you get to rich and famous everybody looks at you in a different light (excessive ass kissing and leaching), and if you’re not into ego trips you might not like that. And that he says CC was trying to tell him how to do his own show too much. What I don’t understand is why he can’t tell CC to let him do it however he wants to or else not at all. Maybe he did that, but I find it hard to believe that CC would not back down to a pretty large degree because they wouldn’t want to lose such a successful show. Wasn’t he rumored to be moving to Showtime at some point? why doesn’t he just do that, I don’t think pay channels like that would really give a fuck about what he wants to do. On the money issue, he could just accept the 50 bagillion dollars and then donate 49 bagillion to whatever charity he wants, then people would have much less incentive to treat him weirdly with excessive ass kissing and leaching, maybe he hasn’t thought of that.
All the in jokes in the opening and first skit made this more sad, than funny. I hope the show picks up a bit.
Okay, that revenge skit was damn funny.
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| Originally Posted by Giant Baba I actually missed tonight’s broadcast. When does it repeat? |
Right now.
And the Colbert Report is pretty damned funny.
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| Originally Posted by Giant Baba I’m on the east coast. I want to catch the whole show than to jump in mid-way. So, it’s off to the horrible CC website to find out. |
1130 tonight
There was some pretty funny stuff…The crowd filler stuff and the opening sketch were all awesome.
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| Originally Posted by Giant Baba Outside of South Park and this season of CHAPELLE’S SHOW, is there any reason to actually watch Comedy Central? |
“Reno 911,” it’s on an hour after the “Chappelle’s Show.”
I sort of see now why Dave wasn’t keen to keep the show going.
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| Originally Posted by Moltisanti “Reno 911,” it’s on an hour after the “Chappelle’s Show.” I sort of see now why Dave wasn’t keen to keep the show going. |
Instead of fixing the problems, he decided to tuck tail and run.
How many times did you try it? At first to me it just seemed like a generic “Cops” parody but once you get the characters down a bit it’s wildly funny.
That “new tupac” skit was the only thing funny on that whole episode.
I thought the commercial he made for the casting director was pretty funny, especially when Spike Lee showed up.
I agree with Leonard the 6th, I was only legitimately entertained by the Tupac bit. “What can a brother do, when half the people vote for George double U, Smith in 94 he ran for city council.”
You can’t really bust his balls too much though because almost all of what’s on these “lost” shows he deemed not funny enough to make the cut originally.
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| Originally Posted by swedish miyagi You can’t really bust his balls too much though because almost all of what’s on these “lost” shows he deemed not funny enough to make the cut originally. |
Except Dave has made entire episodes out of skits he deemed not funny enough to originally air (Friday Night Sissy Fight being my fave).
The problem with these “Lost” episodes is that they are infused with Dave’s uneasiness at becoming a mega-star and failing to live up to the hype. Dave’s bodyguard (in the first skit) saying that it doesn’t matter what Dave puts out becuase “people will say it doesn’t live up to the previous season” summarizes everything. The hype for Season 3 (and the $50 million payday) didn’t just threaten to destroy Chappelle’s Show, it did. In Dave’s mind, no matter what he put out there, it would never live up to the expectations of Comedy Central and the people at large. And you know what, it’s true. Anything less that perfection would be considered a monumental failure.
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| Originally Posted by Diva The problem with these “Lost” episodes is that they are infused with Dave’s uneasiness at becoming a mega-star and failing to live up to the hype. Dave’s bodyguard (in the first skit) saying that it doesn’t matter what Dave puts out becuase “people will say it doesn’t live up to the previous season” summarizes everything. The hype for Season 3 (and the $50 million payday) didn’t just threaten to destroy Chappelle’s Show, it did. In Dave’s mind, no matter what he put out there, it would never live up to the expectations of Comedy Central and the people at large. And you know what, it’s true. Anything less that perfection would be considered a monumental failure. |
You right on with your comments. After seeing the first episode, I feel as if he was not a crazy as the media made him out to be and his interviews from the past year make a lot more sense.
Even being a subpar episode overall, I think the Tupac thing is one of my favorite skits from the show now. I keep watching it on Motherload, and it’s not getting old.
Wow, what a craptastic episode. No wonder Dave fought to keep this from airing.
Also, the pixie skit was much better as a bit in Dave’s stand up several years ago because it stemmed from a real life incident in which Dave went into a restaurant down South while he was on tour and the waiter “guessed” what he was going to order (fried chicken). Genuinely surprised, Dave questioned the guy and after some back and forth, Dave realized that the guy “guessed” by using stereotypes. It hadn’t dawned on Dave that the guy was racist. Dave then talked about how he felt the need to alter his behavior because he didn’t want to reinforce the stereotypes. The best part pf the bit though was when Dave realized he shouldn’t have to do that because “chicken and watermelon are delicious”!
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| Originally Posted by Diva Wow, what a craptastic episode. No wonder Dave fought to keep this from airing. |
Yeah last nights episode is probably the worst Chappelle show…EVER.
I do like Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings doing the bumper stuff though. Both are pretty funny.
Hopefully next weeks finale is good since they are showing the “Cribs” skit that looked so damned funny in the previews way back.
The TuPac song is stuck in my head and its not leaving for awhile.
Seeing the Pixie sketch shreds some light onto his discomfort. Without the context, it really shouldn’t be that funny. Plus when people are telling him, “no, no its funny. Don’t worry about it, you’re doing great,” you can understand why he developed those trust issues.
Also I’ve met way too many people, from places in the more “Christian” area of the country who said they found the show to be hilarious while doing the Rick James bit, and then go into their set of n- jokes.
Sadly, I have to agree - Lost Ep number 2 was extremely sub-par. The Pixie thing was at least interesting, especially in light of the part it supposedly played in Dave’s walk-out, but there was really no need for them to guage the audience’s opinion on it afterwards. It’s meant to be an edgy, balls-to-the-wall comedy show, not Oprah.
If anything, the Gary Coleman sketch was a grimmer indication of why Dave was right to pull the plug. The Lil Jon sketches may have been worn into the ground thanks to the inevitable, frenzied fan reenactment, but there’s no denying that Dave caught a particular pop culture moment there. Gary Coleman getting irate as a security guard? Years too late. If Dave, Neil and co were having to resort to targets like this -as well as a preponderance of self-conscious skits about Chappelle’s newfound wealth- then I think Dave’s dissatisfaction and subsequent departure is all the more understandable.