David Galindo
Screenwriter
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Heck, I wouldnt mind a Charlie Murphy show...
If wonder, sometime, if a place like Comedy Central ever looks itself in the mirro and realizes maybe it would be better to just leave him alone to do his thing, rather than try to micromanage him. Still, when you're putting up that much money, you want to use everything at your disposal (focus groups, etc.) to make sure you get a return on invesment. Things tend to get messed up when the financial stakes are raised.But there should be no need for any of that crap. The show was a bona fide smash hit for C.C. the only thing focus groups and the like could do would be to tamper with perfection. They should have been letting Chappelle do whatever he wanted outside of things that you absolutely could not do on non-premium cable. Although, I don't think network execs are known for being the brightest people when it comes to actual entertainment and creativity.
If you ever listen to "Opie and Anthony" on XM, they have Jim Norton on the show who was on "Tough Crowd" with Colin Quinn. He would always talk about how awful it was over there in the sense that they were constantly telling him what he couldn't say. Carlos Mencia went on their show as well and told a story about how the lawers over there were telling him what was offensive to his own race. So maybe he did leave over that stuff. But there should have been no reason to mess with his show.
Does anyone else here think it was selfish of him for walking out like that after he made a deal with them. What about the staff now that will be out of work? I would be especially pissed if I was Charlie Murphy who was finally coming into his own because of the show. I think that C.C. should offer Charlie Murphy a show. He was a writer for Chappelle, right. We know he's funny. Maybe they will once they accept that Chappelle's show is essentially finished.
A website titled chappelletheory.com - either a hoax or the most shocking historical document of the early 21st century