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Dave Chappelle, Rematerializing Guy

The comic told Oprah what it would take to get him back on Comedy Central.
The comic told Oprah what it would take to get him back on Comedy Central. (By Julie Jacobson -- Associated Press)
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But he had nothing good to say about either.

On Comedy Central:

· We're having all these arguments: "Dave, you've got to cut the poop jokes." And we had a lot of discussion about "We know what our audience wants." Yeah, whatever. I mean, they were wrong 100 percent of the time.

· I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt like I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed. It's like you are cluttered with things and you don't pay attention to things like your ethics.

· They put in the paper that I had pneumonia. . . . And they were, like, "'Well, Dave, you know, you should just back up the pneumonia story." And I was, like, "That was your thing. I'm not backing up a pneumonia story." And then, the next day, it was in the paper that I had writer's block. Then I knew something was getting ready to get stressful because I hadn't even started writing.

· I went back to work and the vitamin love was gone because it was a real ugly negotiation. . . . It was getting ridiculous, and I knew I was going to leave. . . . I didn't tell anybody where I was going. The whole time, they are trying to convince me I'm insane. They were trying to get me to take psychotic medication.

· I show up to work the first week and they, where my office used to be, they built a wall there."


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