From The Heart

I'd like to take an oppurtunity here to speak seriously. I've been watching the DVD's of Chappelle's Show recently and wanted to thank Dave for what was honestly one of the greatest shows on TV ever. It's weird to think that this show catapulted sketch comedy to the forefront again taking it back to the glory days of SNL and MAD TV in the 90's.

One of the greatest sketches of all time was the Racial Draft. Absolutely genius and perfectly planned out to maximize every joke. Everything from Black people selecting an athlete to the whites trying to take a black politician, and then the Blacks trying to get Eminem from the white people was just perfect. I honestly feel that was the sketch that hooked in America, before the Rick James sketch, which locked it up.

It's sad to think that Chappelle, who had accepted a record deal for multiple new seasons "flaked out." But he didn't. He had the foresight to see what was happening to sketch comedy shows like Chappelle's Show and Mind of Mencia, which remains the unfunniest show on television to this day. The racial elements of ALL the sketches in these shows are great for 1-2 years, but you need to find something else to succeed at consistantly being funny and still walking that line between funny and racist. Chappelle's humor was consistantly at the perfect point for every episode and made millions tune in every week to see what was happening. Mencia has become so ridicolously offensive not because what he does is extremely racist, but because it doesn't even have the slightest hint of a joke within an episode. I could talk for thirty minutes in front of a camera and make funny faces every 6 or so minutes just like him and honest to God, his show has made me laugh 1 time in the probably 20 times I've tried to give him a chance.

Chappelle wanted to take the show in a different direction but unfortunately the producers weren't having that. "Yeah...I'm sure that'd be funny Dave, but let's make some more fun of white people." is probably the stuff the force fed to him to make him flake out. Never has a man been so near the top fallen off the face of the earth as quickly as Dave did.

It's a shame because Comedy Central truly had something going here with Chappelle, that has now been completely ruined by Ned... I mean Carlos Mencia.