Dave Chappelle + Comedy Central = Crazy Delicious
Saturday, February 4th, 2006
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Dave Chappelle made an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday.  He opened up and told the Frey Killer the true story of what happened when he disappeared. Dave says that after signing his $50 million deal, he just felt stressed out. He said that people were trying to control him and his show.  Chappelle decided that he needed a “spiritual” retreat , so he went to Africa. He has family and friends who live in South Africa, so he thought that it would be a good idea to spend some time away from Los Angeles.  The only problem with that was that he forgot to tell his wife or kids.   Dave says that he was only gone for two weeks, so it really wasn’t as mysterious an event as described by the media.Â
 When it comes down to it, it appears that Dave made the same mistake that many great comedians make…they start to take themselves too seriously. It has happened to most of the great ones…look at Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy. Dave strayed away from just trying to be funny and started to think about his greater responsibility to the world. I just want my favorite comedians to work on being funny and leave the political messages to celebrities like Susan Sarandon and Madonna. Â
 Dave says that he would like to come back to his hit Comedy Central Show and have half of the DVD sales go to charity.
When it comes down to it. Dave wasn’t crazy at all. He just wanted to do a little soul searching.Â
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