Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Bad News...
If it hadn't been assumed already, "Chappelle's Show" is over, according to Charley Murphy.
Darkness compared it to being the "Tupac of TV shows." While I laughed at first, it does make sense--gone right at the top of its game, right at its height of popularity.
It is too bad; "Chappelle's Show" was a great, great moment in American comedy history--one of the absolute best. It was also culturally significant, as it was the only true forum where race in American was talked about frankly and honestly (even if it was in the form of jokes).
It will be a long time before anyone catches lightning in a bottle like Dave Chappelle did.
Darkness compared it to being the "Tupac of TV shows." While I laughed at first, it does make sense--gone right at the top of its game, right at its height of popularity.
It is too bad; "Chappelle's Show" was a great, great moment in American comedy history--one of the absolute best. It was also culturally significant, as it was the only true forum where race in American was talked about frankly and honestly (even if it was in the form of jokes).
It will be a long time before anyone catches lightning in a bottle like Dave Chappelle did.
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