I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he quit smoking, but I saw him at the Improv right after the end of the 1st season and he was quite, quite high during his show (he also indicated he didn’t want to do a 2nd season, and I wasn’t shocked when he bailed on the 3rd).
Most of the “artist colonies” I’ve known were usually in very conservative areas (Fairhope, Alabama/Buford, Georgia/Black Mountain North Carolina, etc.). I haven’t researched it but I think several of them startedout as a place where the like minded could group together for community.
In the context of interviews and standup in which he described situations in which he and his friends were high. Why would he “hang around town doing such a thing”? People generally don’t walk around in public stoned.
What crazy behavior are you talking about? So far as I am concerned, unless it’s corroborated by a reputable source, the TMZ report is fiction.
I and all my socially liberal friends, relatives, and acquaintances from southwestern and west-central Ohio would be astonished to learn that the region is “overwhelmingly socially conservative.” Greene County votes heavily Republican, like most rural counties, but all kinds of people live in the region, enough to support the existence of a small, artsy village with a liberal bent. There’s nothing “out of place” or “out of the ordinary” about it. Most generally rural and conservative areas have enough artsy-liberal types to support some kind of progressive subgroup within them. Yellow Springs happens to be just a couple of miles from a major urban area, a source of even more non-socially conservative people, as well as the home of a (currently defunct) liberal arts college, several of which form centers of social progressivism all over the state.
My impression:
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Comedy central took a chance on giving a bunch of young comedians their own show (Chappelle, Carlos Mencia, etc.)
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Chappelle’s show was much better than people expected.
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Comedy Central gave him a new contract and huge bonus.
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Cahppelle snapped under the pressure and had a nervous breakdown because he didn’t make any shows under the new contract. He left after the new contract was signed with 2 episodes left on the previous season. That’s why CC had to do a clip show with the rest of the cast (who were also still under contract.)
Nothing he’s done so far seems to be anything other than a nervous breakdown. I hope he gets better, but I really doubt his stated reason for quitting the show should be taken as the Word of God.
Is that the place that used to make the incredible blueberry milkshakes with real blueberries in it?
I went to Yellow Springs once with a college BF who was going to Wittenburg, and there was some sort of frat picnic going on there. Pretty little place and very friendly feeling.
Look, I’m 42 years old, and I’ve lived in the Dayton/Springfield area my whole life. Have visited Yellow Springs countless times. (I *love *Peach’s Grill. Best beer selection around.) And Yellow Springs is very atypical for Ohio.
Even I - as a conservative/libertarian - love the place.
Yellow Springs would be unusual no matter where in the world you put it. It’s not particularly unusual in southwestern Ohio. And, as I mentioned before, Ohio has a long tradition of liberal college town surrounded by conservative farmland. (I’m the same age as you as lived my whole life in that area before work took me away.)
Then you and your friends are either frighteningly naïve, or you’re being deliberately obtuse.
Now, that’s utter rubbish.
I don’t believe the racist sketch story for a second (what, they guy had no influence over the sketches in his own show?) but I’m inclined to cut him a break. I think the real reason was either nervous exhaustion or a crisis of confidence in his own abolity to be continually funny, and that’s not the sort of stuff you own up to on national TV.
Its a shame Dave didn’t try to go another season or two with a less racist spin (as he saw it at least).
The few skits I remember that were LMAO funny didn’t seem to be particularly racist. The “everything looks cool when slowed down”. The basketball game challenge with Prince. The “pee pee on you, pee pee on me” parody rapper video. The time Dave goes cruising with the “real” Wayne Brady.
Seems to me that crew had the ability come up with funny stuff, where it just happened to be funny stuff being acted out by black folks and not so much funny because it WAS being done by black folks. I felt the same way about some of the best stuff on In Living Color.
He wrote the sketch himself. He was saying that he noticed that the reactions to the sketch were not what he intended. His intent was to mock racial stereotypes. Instead, he found that he was reinforcing them. That’s what made him rethink his show.
Of course it isn’t. Perhaps you misunderstand my usage of “particular.” Almost all rural areas include some kind of artsy-liberal community. American communities are not homogenous.
Of course it isn’t. Perhaps you misunderstand my usage of “particular.” Almost all rural areas include some kind of artsy-liberal community. American communities are not homogenous.
No, we are aware that the Dayton area is a major metropolis that us reasonably diverse with two major universities and that the diversity is sufficient to prevent the region from being “overwhelmingly” anything. You only find overwhelming majorities when you slice and dice the area into isolated subgroups Of course Air Force personnel tend to be conservative (although not exclusively so), and rural high-income residential communities also, bit there is major city that you’re neglecting when you trench the analysislike that. Liberal and artsy types aren’t some kind of rare, lonely species that desperately cling to each other in a single hippie village.
This is bizarrrre… do we really have THAT many dopers from YS, OH?
Oh, wait – they probably self-selected based on the thread title. But still…
Y’know, you should probably keep your wonderfulness on the down low. I love it that people think of 20’ snowdrifts when they hear of our little burg in Wisconsin. Keeps the “soulless coasties” away. But every once in a while it’ll show up on one of those “Best Places To Whatever, Maybe Own A Ten Speed, In America” lists, and then I fear for our secret…
Yeah, well, like rest of the region, it’s sweltering in the summer and freezing inthe winter. There are floods, tornados, mosquitos, sleet, and thunderstorms. Those hoping for mild sun and cool breezes aren’t going to be leaving Venice Beach or Waikiki to move to Greene County, Ohio. (Hope that helps!)
He was brought down by the Dark Crusaders.
I was thinking about this thread, and come to think of it, what great comedian hasn’t had a nervous breakdown? Other than Seinfeld, I don’t know of too many that didn’t turn to drugs or have an “insane period.”
I almost have to feel a little bit bad for R. Kelly, because despite his long and arguably illustrious music career, when I hear his name this is the song that comes to mind.
I’m sure I’m not alone.
“The melancholy men are of all others always the most witty.” Aristotle