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ILS1
05-11-2005, 08:25 PM
Comedian Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa and has remained there since late April, according to a source close to the situation. The same source denies rumors of drug abuse. Other sources have also told EW that the future of Chappelle's Show — the hit Comedy Central series that was entering its third season — is more uncertain than the network has suggested.

Comedy Central last week made a hasty announcement that the show's third season, already delayed from its planned February start, had been postponed again. The network said it remained ''optimistic'' that production could resume. The highly rated sketch series has been a huge moneymaker for Viacom, which owns Comedy Central. Its second season is about to be released on DVD, on the heels of first-season sales that made it the top-selling television DVD in history.

Thanks in large part to the DVD sales, Chappelle last year netted a $50 million deal for co-writing and starring in the show. Sketches to fill about four episodes in the third season have been taped, but Chappelle's interstitial material with live audiences has not. The fate of the sketches has not been determined.



Dave Chappelle (www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,1059677_3_0_,00.html)

SwtwtrMstngs04
05-11-2005, 08:58 PM
I dont like this at all.

mwynn05
05-11-2005, 09:00 PM
Man, that sucks it's one of my favorite shows. I hope he can get over it

Gobbla2001
05-11-2005, 09:08 PM
This is very sad news...

South Africa, though? You have to be insane to seek treatment half way across the world...

Oh well, get 'em Dave!

JettJenkins04
05-11-2005, 09:36 PM
Dave is a really funny guy. I hope that it's not nothing serious or anything like that.

LH Panther Mom
05-11-2005, 09:41 PM
Originally posted by Gobbla2001
This is very sad news...

South Africa, though? You have to be insane to seek treatment half way across the world...


Pun intended?

Gobbla2001
05-11-2005, 09:43 PM
Originally posted by LH Panther Mom
Pun intended?

ha, yah...

44INAROW
05-11-2005, 10:13 PM
Originally posted by LH Panther Mom
Pun intended?

LOL LOL

pirate4state
05-11-2005, 10:44 PM
It is tragic when someone with so much talent & promise just can't keep it together. :( Hope he gets the help he needs b/c I LOVE his show!!

AggieJohn
05-12-2005, 02:31 AM
please don't be the next chris farley

pirate44
05-12-2005, 07:10 AM
my question is, does a person's mental disorder create their humor or does the humor create the mental disorder. either way i guess there's a few guys here on the Low who should consider professional help.

LH Panther Mom
05-12-2005, 07:11 AM
Originally posted by pirate44
my question is, does a person's mental disorder create their humor or does the humor create the mental disorder. either way i guess there's a few guys here on the Low who should consider professional help.

I'm sure glad you quantified that by saying "guys". :p

pirate44
05-12-2005, 07:13 AM
Originally posted by LH Panther Mom
I'm sure glad you quantified that by saying "guys". :p
everybody knows "guys" these days is a gender neutral term ;)

neck_94
05-12-2005, 07:19 AM
Too bad, VERY FUNNY dude.

may have been all the weed they smoked in the movie HALF-BAKED. (great flick)