Dave Chappelle
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it used to be.
It's not like that.
Can we talk about the Chappelle Show?
Oh, yeah.
Man, that's the truth.
I had one guy that I primarily wrote the show with, Neil Brennan, and we're still friends.
But one of the things we would do is we would take submissions.
We'd always rewrite the submissions, but a guy would give us an idea.
That's funny.
We'll write it up.
And if we use it, we pay him.
Man, it was funny.
But it was my first time being corporately funny.
And it got me ready for the next time because it was always a negotiation with the network.
But I liked, in hindsight, because we had pitched that show to HBO.
And boy, they turned it down in spectacular fashion.
Because at that time they had the Chris Rock show and they felt like they were invincible.
Man, but we went on Comedy Central and shot lights out.
And I think the show was better on Comedy Central because there was an era of you shouldn't be able to say these things.
HBO looked like you could just do anything anyway.