J10 Sunday Arts 3 TELEVISION Chappelle's comic sense knows no limits A stunned 8-year-old girl stands shivering in the drivethrough of a New Jersey burgerand-rib joint, powerful wind gusts threatening to send her sailing into the bitter cold air. Blood is splattered across her porcelain-white face and puffy pink winter coat. A bicycle with training wheels lies in a sad, crumpled heap beside her. She has just been hit by a car. On Dave Chappelle's popular sketch series, "Chappelle's Show" (10:30 p.m.
Wednesdays on Comedy Central), almost anything can be mined for laughs. "We're shooting a spoof of an DANCING- IS PHENOMENAL, YOU GOT IS A HIGH HARD TO MOVE MOVIE! WILSON COMBS YOU GOT SERVED PG-13 NOW PLAYING REGAL CINEMAS LOEWS THEATRES REGAL CINEMAS COBBLESTONE SO RICHMOND TOWN SQUARE SOLOM COMMONS 16 STADIUM 20 Wilson Mill Rd. Aurora, 190-Exrt 148-Avon Richmond Rd. Enterprise Pky. 800-FANDANGO 800-FANDANGO 800-FANDANGO ATLAS CINEMAS AMC CLEVELAND CINEMAS LAKESHORE 7 RIDGE PARK SQUARE TOWER CITY E.
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It is the sort of sly, transgressive humor that fans have come to expect from "Chappelle's Show," a half-hour sprint that finds Chappelle keenly mocking everything from the absurdity of public-service announcements to the complexities of race relations in the United States. "There are no sacred cows," Chappelle said. On camera, he calls his show "America's No. 1 Source for Offensive Comedy." Off-camera, Chappelle, a married father of two, insists his show is 3 BEST ACADEMY BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY COSTUME NOMINATIONS! DESIGN AWARD DIRECTION Roger then. Limes COLIN SCARLETT TOM FIRTH JOHANSSON.
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"If I did these things in a nightclub, it wouldn't seem edgy," he said. "I'm not trying to push people's buttons. But at the same time when we're making this, I don't want to hold back. Our MO is to dance like nobody's watching." Chappelle's lack of restraint and cable's anything-goes ethos have created an environment in which characters such as Tyrone Biggums, a scheming crack addict in dire need of lip balm, and Clayton Bigsby, a blind white supremacist unaware that he is black, can come to life. He has skewered singer R.
Kelly and original superfreak Rick James, and he has imagined a "Racial Draft" in which ethnic groups swap culturally ambiguous celebrities. A sense of danger inspires comic sketches Before stretching his gangly frame on a couch in his trailer, Chappelle said, "I've always liked an element of danger in comedy." He lighted the first of many cigarettes. His voice barely rose above a whisper. "I like the idea of people watching and asking, 'Can he say A quick glance at a corkboard in his midtown office makes it clear he has no plans to curb his enthusiasm this season. "White People Dancing," one Post-it read.
"Samuel Jackson," "Gay America," "Creative Solution Teen Pregnancy" read others. But the sketch most likely to set fingers wagging undoubtedly will be a sendup of 1950s family sitcoms featuring a white family whose surname is a racial slur. "I'm not so concerned when black intellectuals say the N- word is awful," Chappelle said with a shrug. "If people stop staying the N-word, is everything going to be equal? Is a rainbow going to come out of the sky, and all of a sudden things will be better for black people?" Chappelle, a native of Washington, D.C., has been cracking wise since he was 14. Chaperoned by his mother, a Unitarian minister, he would frequent comedy clubs around the capital, delivering jokes about Jesse Jackson's presidential bid and the furry alien Alf.
Asked why he was allowed to begin his career barely out of junior high school, Chappelle, who graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, said: "D.C. was the murder capital of the year. Selling crack was the No. 1 after-school job. In contrast to all the bad things I could have been doing, how benign does telling jokes sound?" Though his parents were separated, Chappelle, the eldest of three, described his childhood as idyllic.
Race and politics often figured in dinner-table conversations. "We were like the broke Huxtables," he said jokingly. "There were always books and magazines around." Chappelle skipped college and headed straight to the New York comedy club circuit. It was at the Boston Comedy Club in Greenwich Village that he met his longtime writing partner, Neal Brennan, a doorman at the club, who gave him advice about how to. improve a joke.
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www.dirtyd www.dirtydancinghavananights.com COMEDY CENTRAL "If I did these things in a nightclub, Chappelle says of his show on him," Chappelle said. "But I took 10 steps and realized he was actually right." Brennan, who is white, and Chappelle would go on to write and act in the 1998 stoner movie "Half Baked," about a group of friends who spend an inordinate amount of time getting high. Over the years, Chappelle has appeared in more than 14 films, including Mel Brooks' "Robin Hood: Men in Tights," "Undercover Brother" and "The Nutty Professor" with Eddie Murphy. 'Buddies' sitcom doesn't last long Hollywood has been kinder to Chappelle than network television has. His first sitcom, "Buddies," about a friendship between a black man and a white man, was quickly canceled in 1996 after less than a year.
"I knew from the outset that it was not going to work," he said. Two years later, Fox offered him a sitcom based on his life as a struggling comedian in New York. When executives asked Chappelle to add more white cast members, he abruptly quit and it wouldn't seem edgy," Dave." Comedy Central. publicly accused Fox of "It was a lonely, scary time for me," said Chappelle, whose father, a music professor at och College, was dying of stroke. related complications.
"I thought I was done." Chappelle is far from done, at least on Comedy Central. "He is a major talent that everyone wants. to be in business with," said Lou. Wallach, the channel's vice president for original programming. "We're never going to water.
down his point of view." Co-executive producer Brennan called the show "a pure repo resentation of our voice. It's exactly what we want it to be." Changing from a neon-blue. jumpsuit into a brown gas-station attendant's uniform, Chappelle readied himself for an ning shoot. The sketch, "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong," is about a black executive who loses. his job after a militant outburst.
"He could've walked away," Chappelle said ominously, "but he decided to keep it real." For the first time in ages; Chappelle said, he feels comfortable. Keeping it real has worked: for him. 1 6 INCLUDING BEST NOMINATIONS PICTURE AWARD MYSTIC RIVER ROADSHOW PICTURES America Online Keyword: Mystic River. Far. Al Figure www.
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