I'm Dave Chappelle, Beeyitch!

I'm Dave Chappelle, Beeyitch!
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Contrary to what the billboards say, Chappelle's Show Season 3 IS NOT starting on May 31st. Apparently production on the show has stoppped production.

As much as people love Dave for all his skits, his penetrating commentary of race relations in the country that still champions the antagonist nature of those relations is what the show will probably most be remembered for. Bits like The Racial Draft, Wu-Tang Financial, that one "When Keepin' It Real Goes Wrong" where Dave is the "good little Negro", the racist Black man and the skit where Dave testifies in all the major "black" court cases signify this man's true genius.

Of course Rick James, the Wayne Brady skit and all of Charlie Murphy's Hollywood Stories will have us laughing til we piss our pants, but Dave probably has high aspirations.

What those are? I guess we'll only know if and when the show comes back on. I don't think it'll come back for a 4th season though. Don't care how much money Comedy Central throws at Dave (unless they redesign his DVD royalty... 'cause Season 1 is the #1 selling DVD for 1st Season's of a TV Show, surpassing The Simpsons (and their first season was wack, tame, badly drawn). I figure Season 2 will make Dave on of the most paid Black men in Showbiz -- but don't expect it to give him any additional power to not have his methods questioned by those who run the business and give him money.

I wonder if the dispute in the production is over that? That Comedy Central wanted to foist their "approved" writers onto the show against Dave's wishes. Dave is only successful now, and he's been in Showbiz for at least ten years, struggling his ass off. So with no long track record of being successful, his more experimental (i.e. funnier) choices are no doubt being shit on by the Brass. A lot of times only Black people "get" a certain amount of Black humor; that trenchant biting stuff that comes from generations of living with a foot on your neck and a knife at your back.

Makes me wonder if The Boondocks show is ever going to air with the bite that the comic strip has -- maybe if it was on al-Jazeera, but no US TV network (cable or broadcast) would allow the skewering of the majority (race, society, government, class) that McGruder executes so well in the paper on humanity's greatest persuading communication device.

You know the FCC will crack down on Comedy Central and Dave will half million dollar fines for nebulous profanity use and indescent images/sounds. Who are the people establishing those guidelines?