"In 2016, he signed a $20-million-per-release comedy-special deal with Netflix and released six stand-up specials under the deal"
In December 2021, Chappelle told the Yellow Springs, Ohio, village council that he would cancel his planned business investments, including his restaurant and comedy club, if it approved a zoning change to allow a multifamily affordable housing project.
The affordable housing had been negotiated between the village and the developer as a condition of approval for its plan to build 143 single-unit homes.
Chapelle stated that he is not against affordable housing; he is against
"the poorly vetted,
cookie-cutter,
sprawl-style development deal
which has little regard for the community,
culture and infrastructure of the village"
On February 7, 2022, he again spoke up against the zoning change at the council meeting held to vote on the approval, calling the council "clowns" and
reminding them that
his business was worth $65 million a year "
"Chappelle was offered the role of Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in Forrest Gump. Concerned the character was demeaning and the movie would bomb, he turned down the part.
He parodied the film in the 1997 short Bowl of Pork, where
a dim-witted black man
is responsible for the Rodney King beating,
the LA riots
and O. J. Simpson's being accused of murder."
"you don't need $50 million to live around these parts, just a nice smile and a kind way about you."
And 49 five.
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