I've heard from Dave Chappelle regarding his mysterious absence from the set of "Chappelle's Show". Ok, he didn't contact me directly, but he speak with Time magazine from South Africa and I've got the quotes.
I'm not crazy, I'm not smoking crack. I'm definitely stressed out. You hear so many voices jockeying for position in your mind that you want to make sure that you hear your own voice, so I figured, let me just cut myself off from everybody, take a minute and pull a Flintstone - stop a speeding car by using my bare feet as the brakes.
There's a lot of resistance to my opinions, so I decided, 'Let me remove myself from this situation'. If you don't have the right people around you, and you're moving at a million miles an hour, you can lose yourself. Everyone around me says, 'You're a genius, you're great, that's your voice,' but I'm not sure that they're right.
Crazy or not, Chappelle's got to have total creative freedom on that show. I'll be following this developing story closely, so stay tuned.
