The Chappelle Theory

[Mamba]

http://www.chappelletheory.com/index.html

This crap is so far fetched, it's laughable. If there is any weight to this though, it's really creepy how money can buy you that much power. I just find it hard to believe that Oprah could be so sinister.

Great suspense writing though, I don't get the feeling that this is real. The author could write scripts for movies, tv, and plays.

 

[NTC]

This is really old, I first saw it about a year or 2 ago.

And yes, its not real at all.

 

[I-Miss-MJ]

Sounds like the usual 'secret organisation runs the world' type deal.

 

[bbwSwish]

I actually read the entire thing and it's pretty interesting. I doubt it's real though. I mean, Oprah sending a pretaped warning only to Chappelle's T.V. warning him to tone down the comedy in the show? Not very likely.

Also, there was an episode of 30 Rock about something like this. There was a group called the "Black Crusaders" that were made up of Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, and Gordon from Sesame Street who were trying to ruin Tracy Jordan's career. He says they meet four times a year in the skull of the Statue of Liberty and accuses them of a bunch of stuff like tanking 50 Cent's movie, making Coolio disappear and hurting Terrell Owens' ankle. It's pretty hilarious.

 

[Really Lost One]

It is true.

 

[igotask8board]

I read it a while ago, I never did finish reading all of it.

I'll believe this crap before I believe Chappelle ran out of (good) ideas.

 

[Mamba]

I could see Chappelle facing heat from prominent black people, but nothing this major. Personally, I just think the stress was too much on him.

 

[Really Lost One]

<div class="quote_poster">Swish Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I actually read the entire thing and it's pretty interesting. I doubt it's real though. I mean, Oprah sending a pretaped warning only to Chappelle's T.V. warning him to tone down the comedy in the show? Not very likely.

Also, there was an episode of 30 Rock about something like this. There was a group called the "Black Crusaders" that were made up of Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, and Gordon from Sesame Street who were trying to ruin Tracy Jordan's career. He says they meet four times a year in the skull of the Statue of Liberty and accuses them of a bunch of stuff like tanking 50 Cent's movie, making Coolio disappear and hurting Terrell Owens' ankle. It's pretty hilarious.</div>

****ing douchebags ruined the Eagles Super Bowl

 

[Sasha]

The Eagles suck anyways.

 

[Run BJM]

<div class="quote_poster">Mamba Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I could see Chappelle facing heat from prominent black people, but nothing this major. Personally, I just think the stress was too much on him.</div>

Agree, I don't think anyone criticizing him would have phased him much. He seems like a really humble, down to earth guy and he had pretty much been a failure most of his career save for the cult fans who loved him in Half Baked and in stand up comedy. Hell, he wasn't even really that popular until several shows into his second season before he really started getting recognition. I can remember the morning after I saw the Rick James episode me and my friend were raving about it at school while everyone thought we were a bunch of babbling idiots. A few weeks later no one would STFU with the "I'm Rick James bitch!" chants. Within the span of a few months he went from being relatively unknown by a majority of the public to becoming the biggest TV star in the world.

All of a sudden hes got the most popular show on TV and everywhere he goes hes got to hear people yelling stupid over-used racial jokes. It probably wore on him quickly, mind you this is a guy who had a long career before and basically failed at pretty much everything (at least as far as financial success goes), he even turned down the role of Bubba in Forrest Gump to pursue some other role in which he received no commercial success. Hes clearly more comfortable going under the radar like hes doing now.

 

[Skiptomylue11]

I find it quite mysterious, considering the guy was becoming quite popular and had a 50 million dollar contract.

 

[bbwSwish]

<div class="quote_poster">Skiptomylue11 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I find it quite mysterious, considering the guy was becoming quite popular and had a 50 million dollar contract.</div>

In the end, he would have actually ended up making more than 50 million dollars when you factor in endorsements and DVD sales. I heard that Paul Mooney, one of the writers of the show, said he was actually walking away from close to 70 million dollars. I can't see anyone doing that just because they are stressed or would rather be out of the limelight.

I was just doing some reading and I found it interesting that Chappelle's first time on television after leaving for Africa during the third season was actually to do an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show. Here is what he said in that interview.

"I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching."

Why would he go on the show if he was scared to death of Winfrey and she was the reason he quit? Unless she forced him to do the interview using fear and her "prerecorded messages that we only sent to Dave's television", then that proves how stupid this theory is. There is little to no chance that this theory is anywhere close to the truth but I give the guy credit for writing it all. He has a good imagination and like someone else said, he could be a fiction writer.

 

[Skiptomylue11]

How much did he make on his earlier career in movies and the first two season of The Chappelle show?

 

[bbwSwish]

<div class="quote_poster">Skiptomylue11 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">How much did he make on his earlier career in movies and the first two season of The Chappelle show?</div>

Like Run BJM was saying, I don't think he made that much in his earlier movies. The most amount of money he made before signing that huge contract was mostly off of DVD sales. His Season One Uncensored DVD was the highest selling DVD of a television show to date selling over 3 million copies and he got a portion of that.