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Entertainment: Chappelle may return to show
(REUTERS) Comedian Dave Chappelle
said Friday he walked away
from his hit cable TV show
because he felt stressed out
and manipulated but would
return if more of the show’s
revenue can be given to deserving
causes.
In an interview with
Oprah Winfrey, billed as his
first since he stunned the entertainment
industry last
April by abandoning Chappelle’s
Show after signing a
$50-million US contract,
Chappelle denied he was
crazy, had been on drugs or
spent time in an African psychiatric
hospital.
Winfrey asked him if he
had “lost his mind” when he
left the show, which was the
top-rated attraction on the
Comedy Central cable network.
“No, not exactly,” he said.
“When you’re a person who
makes money, they have a
vested interest in controlling
you.”
And while Chappelle enjoyed
being famous, he said,
“It’s the way people around
you position themselves
around you to get in your
pockets and your mind ... it
infuriates me.”
Asked if he would return
to his show, Chappelle said:
“I want to restructure the
deal ... Half of the DVD revenue,
if we can make a deal
where I have the control of
that, that I like, and half the
DVD revenue goes back to
the people that we see fit, I
think I’d be more than willing
to finish with where we
started ... I’m not mad at
anybody.”
DVDs from the show’s
first two seasons have been
top sellers.
“I just want to do my
show, I want want to have
fun again,” Chappelle said.
“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.
He specifically mentioned
victims of Hurricane Katrina
as deserving of his charity.
When he left for Africa,
Chappelle said he told no one
except his brother, who he
asked to notify others, including
his wife and children.
He chose Africa as a
destination, he said, because
he “needed a break” and it
was “a place where I could
really reflect.”
Posted on Thursday, February 09 @ 00:00:00 UTC by jcohen
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