So if Chappelle doesn't return

[alarcojon]

Paul Mooney will take over the show, right? Marathon sessions of "Ask a Black Dude."

[angee_is_mad]

1. They wouldn't dare

plus they would be to scared, but it would be interesting.

BTW, I am a huge Paul Mooney fan, but he takes no prisoners and he tells it like it is and the mainstream media would be threatened by this.

[alarcojon]

2. Agreed

I would love to see it, but I think he would take the show in directions the MSM wouldn't be comfortable with.

[angee_is_mad]

3. lol, they couldn't handle tha truth

Ruth! Nuff sound.

[mark414]

4. that

would be great

mooney is a master

[Chovexani]

7. You'd never see it on basic cable

HBO or Showtime, yeah. Comedy Central? Hell no.

Damn, I would love to see him on HBO. I've loved Paul Mooney for years and we need more of him.

[alarcojon]

5. Negrodamus, why is Pres. Bush so sure Saddam has WMD?

Because he has the receipt!

[Kipepeo]

6. There were so many articles about Chappelle

from the point of view of 'is he crazy?!?! is he on crack?!?' but not much attention paid to the reasons he talked about for wanting a break. I kept waiting for them to address it and nothing....even the people around him, his publicist, his co-writer, etc. seemed to chalk it up to a breakdown and never addressed what he said about racism on teevee. One thing in particular that stuck out was this part of the Time piece:

"The third season hit a big speed bump in November 2004. He was taping a sketch about magic pixies that embody stereotypes about the races.

The black pixie—played by Chappelle—wears blackface and tries to convince blacks to act in stereotypical ways. Chappelle thought the sketch was funny, the kind of thing his friends would laugh at. But at the taping, one spectator, a white man, laughed particularly loud and long. His laughter struck Chappelle as wrong, and he wondered if the new season of his show had gone from sending up stereotypes to merely reinforcing them. "When he laughed, it made me uncomfortable," says Chappelle. "As a matter of fact, that was the last thing I shot before I told myself I gotta take f______ time out after this. Because my head almost exploded." "

It's a very fine line between making fun of racism and having people miss it and just laugh at racist sterotypes...I think being on a network like comedy central (which openly says their target demographic is young white men) is enough to make anyone second guess their effectiveness after a while. But no talk of this from comedy central of course...they'd rather put out the meme that he's loopy, crazy, maybe on drugs hint hint.

I know most of this post wasn't in answer to your direct question - but no, in light of their treatment of Chappelle's concerns I doubt they'd ever have a show for Paul Mooney. :(

[bliss_eternal]

8. Chappelle and his long time friend, one of the show's producers

have long talked about the fact that Comedy Central is dificult to work with--and said exactly why(lack of creative freedom, having to fight them all the time, them not wanting to compensate them appropriately, etc.)

Sadly, after hearing this I didn't really expect them to own up to their end of things, but it would have been nice if they had. If at the very least they said something more along the lines of a least being in support of Dave and his need for a break.

They suck! LOL!

[alarcojon]

9. Yeah, I really liked the Time article

and really appreciate your input. If y'all get a chance, as Chappelle himself would say, "check it out."

[bliss_eternal]

10. Thank you-- :)

Yes, it was definitely worth checking out. Not sure if it is archived on their site, but most local libraries carry Time you could see a back issue there.

So far, it's the only fair coverage of Chappelle since he walked off the show.

[TroubleMan]

11. Saying he's lost it is a powerful marketing tool

Saying he's burnt out or needs a breather doesn't sell like saying he's gone crazy does.