Comedy Central just couldn’t resist the easy joke, opening the aborted third season of “Chappelle’s Show” Sunday with a shot of an empty stage and the introduction of a star who never appears.
It’s the first of three episodes compiled from sketches left behind before Dave Chappelle walked out on a $50 million contract and one of TV’s hottest shows two years ago.
“This isn’t a designed farewell,” said Neal Brennan, the show’s co-creator who put them together.
“What I worry about is that everyone is going to look at it like a ‘CSI’ episode, examine every show and say, ‘Oh, that’s why Dave did that.’ There are no clues. The thing that people forget is, I came up with half the ideas. And it’s not like I knew he was going to Africa. Does it give you a look into my psyche?”
