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Chappelle's Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by comedians Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, with Chappelle hosting the show and starring in the majority of its sketches. Chappelle, Brennan, and Michele Armour were the show's executive producers.
- Decade Defining Television
- Introduced Major Talent
- Revitalized Major Talent
- Honest Discussions
- All of This Is in Danger of Being Forgotten
After its premiere, the comedy series was a hit and became prime-time television as the season went on. Sketches such as “The Mad Real World,” “Wu Tang Financial,” and “R. Kelly‘s “Piss on You” music videos became part of the pop culture lexicon. They were funny examinations of current events, with humorous, contemporary elements, such as the struc...
Chappelle’s Show did more than give a platform for the creator, ratings for the network, and two copycat series, Mind of Mencia and Key and Peele. It introduced longtime comedic talents such as Charlie Murphy, Donnell Rawlings, and Bill Burrto audiences, which helped each of their meteoritic rises after the show eventually ended. Murphy was known f...
The show not only introduced new talent but also revitalized some older names and reignited their careers by introducing them to a new generation. As Charlie Murphy made a name for himself with “True Hollywood Stories,” he also reintroduced the world to Prince and Rick James by telling tales of their early escapades and another side of their person...
In the spirit of Mooney (probably why he was called to be involved in the show), Chappelle was looking to have honest discussions based on current topics focused on touchy subjects. Although the purpose of any sketch show is to make audiences laugh, Chappelle was interested in using humor to open the floor for critical thinking and subsequent disco...
After Chappelle left the show and infamously declined Comedy Central’s huge offer for a new season, he faced a plethora of ridicule and bad faith for his decision. After returning from South Africa, he went on Oprah and Inside the Actors Studio in February 2008 to give context for his departure. But after those appearances (and the network airing u...
- Roger Cormier
- HUGH HEFNER INSPIRED DAVE CHAPPELLE TO CREATE THE SHOW. One night, Dave Chappelle watched a special on Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner that was designed to resemble one of Hefner's Playboy parties.
- HBO PASSED ON THE SHOW. Not everyone was immediately sold on the concept. “We pitched to HBO and they looked at us like we were lepers,” Brennan told Free Press Houston.
- CHAPPELLE AND BRENNAN LEARNED HOW TO WRITE THE SHOW BY READING A BOOK ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. The two read Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, the oral history of the iconic sketch show compiled by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, before shooting the pilot and writing sketches for the first season.
- DONNELL RAWLINGS CAME UP WITH HIS PLAYER HATER'S BALL CHARACTER ON THE FLY. In an interview with King magazine, writer/actor/comedian Donnell Rawlings shared that his Player Hater's Ball character didn't come together until the very last minute.
- Jason Tabrys
- Clayton Bigsby, The World’s Only Black White Supremacist – S1E1. The plot is summed up completely by the title and the biggest laugh probably comes in the first 90 seconds with Chappelle’s reveal as Bigsby, an aged, blind, hatemonger who thinks he’s white.
- Mad Real World – S1E6. Longform sketch comedy at its best and a bit that benefits so much from really perfect and intricate set design and just the density of the scene.
- Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories: Rick James – S2E4. This is essentially a tie. So many elements from Chappelle’s Show have stuck around, but “cocaine is a hell of a drug,” pickup basketball and pancakes with Prince, and “I’m Rick James bitch!”
- Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories: Prince – S2E5.
- Season 1, Episode 9: Blackzilla & Playa Haters' Ball. In his first monologue of this episode, Chappelle talks about how he loves video games and how "[his] whole life's like Vice City."
- Season 2, Episode 6: The Internet & Moment in the Life of Lil Jon. This episode marks the first appearance of Chappelle's iconic impersonation of crunk rapper Lil Jon.
- Season 2, Episode 8: I Know Black People & Keeping It Real Goes Wrong. This episode features the two-part segment "I Know Black People," in which Chappelle poses a series of questions to several contestants from different walks of life, to determine how well they know Black culture.
- Season 2, Episode 9: Oprah's Baby Daddy & Jury Duty. In the monologue preceding "Celebrity Jury Duty Selection," Chappelle talks about the discussion he and co-creator Neal Brennan have whenever a Black celebrity is in trouble.
The sketch-comedy show, starring comic Dave Chappelle, follows the tried-and-true formula of similar shows that preceded it. Chappelle performs a stand-up routine that leads into a taped comedy...
Watch Chappelle's Show — Season 1 with a subscription on Paramount+, Netflix, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Chappelle's Show finds the comedian elevating his...
