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Chappelle’s Show Airs Wu-Tang and Tupac Skits
Monday, July 10, 2006
By: John Kennedy
 Dave Chappelle once again proved that he is hip-hop’s favorite comedian as the first of his three lost Chappelle’s Show episodes premiered last night.
The first episode, now hosted by Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings, featured Dave as show favorite Tron, in a fictional news report based on Method Man’s self-titled song from Wu-Tang Clan’s “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers).” In the skit, Tron complains of suffering the torture methods described in the song’s intro.
Later in the show, Dave jokes about the progressiveness of Tupac’s lyrics. In this skit, Dave is in the club when a new Tupac song debuts, but the lyrics are based on themes as recent as video game Grand Theft Auto and descriptions of people who are actually in the club. “See things is changing / wise words spoken by sages / from Skytel to Blackberry pagers / Your crew don’t faze us / unless you busters pay us / run up in your spot like CJ from San Andreas,” the song plays. “It was the dopest song I ever wrote – in ’94.”
The lost episodes of Chappelle’s Show will continue Sunday on Comedy Central. “Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes Uncensored” DVD is a one-disk set that packages the unfinished season in its entirety. The DVD includes all three lost episodes and over an hour of un-televised sketches, commentary, bloopers, deleted scenes, a documentary on “The Fabulous Making of Chappelle's Show” and exclusive performances by John Legend and dead prez.
The first two seasons of Chappelle’s Show grossed the highest and third highest TV on DVD sales of all time, respectively, with the first season raking in over 3.5 million units sold and the second selling 2.5 million units.
“Chappelle's Show: The Lost Episodes Uncensored” DVD hits stores July 25.
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