(Video) Dave Chappelle on escaping fame, returning to stand-up with Netflix
His tendency to stay out of the spotlight led to some revealing, surprising, and strikingly genuine conversation. King first pressed Chappelle to reflect on why he left his breakout project, Chappelle’s Show, so abruptly. “[Someone] said to me that comedy is a reconciliation of paradox,” Chappelle explained. “I think that that was the irreconcilable moment for me—that I was in this very successful place, but the emotional content of it didn’t feel anything like what I imagined success should feel like.
Comedian Dave Chappelle has been making people laugh for 30 years. His career exploded after two hilarious seasons of “Chappelle’s Show” on Comedy Central, but he suddenly abandoned it at the height of his success. Now, he’s back with a three-part stand-up comedy special on Netflix. Chappelle often shies away from interviews, but he sat down with Gayle King for an in-depth conversation you’ll see only on “CBS This Morning.”
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