Dave Chappelle says he’s long beef with Comedy Central over rights to Chappelle’s Show is over. The surprising announcement comes during a ten-minute performance titled Salvation song posted on Chappelle’s Instagram account late Thursday night. The track concludes with the news that the sketch comedy will return to Netflix from today.
Netflix aired Chappelle’s Show on November 1, but pulled it off on November 24 after the comedian complained that Comedy Central’s owner, ViacomCBS, licensed the show without his approval. “I called them and said it made me feel bad. And you want to know what they did, “Chappelle said in a clip on Instagram on the morning of November 24. “They agreed that they would take it off their platform just so I could feel better.” Netflix, which has been broadcasting stand-up shows from Chappelle since 2016, has a lucrative contract with the artist worth ten million dollars.
Now, three months later, and 15 years after Chappelle launched the program from 2003 to 2006, we have a resolution. According to Chapelle, Comedy Central directed him to fix things.
‘I never asked Comedy Central for anything. If you remember, I said ‘I’m going to my real boss and I came to you’ because I know where my strength lies, ‘Chappelle told the Salvation song heard. ‘I asked you to stop watching the program and thank Almighty God for you. You have made the program worthless because without your eyes it is nothing. And when you stopped looking, they called me. And I got my name back. And I got my license back, and I got my show back, and they paid me millions of dollars. Thank you very much.”
Chappelle thanks Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos for his “courage” and ViacomCBS ‘Chris McCarthy for correcting the past.
“Finally, after all these years, I can finally say to Comedy Central, ‘It was a pleasure doing business with you,'” Chappelle said.
Now, what about a nice game shirts against blouses?