And it wasn't good money and it wasn't good circumstances but, 'what else am I gonna do?' I said.".
After two successful seasons, Chappelle signed an extension with Comedy Central worth $50 million.Comedy Central then cobbled together a shortened third season using previously unreleased sketches.
"People think I made a lot of money from 'Chappelle's Show.' When I left that show, I never got paid.He says he pitched "Chappelle's Show" to HBO and they rejected it before he went to Comedy Central.
The clip ends with Chappelle directly criticizing ViacomCBS, which owns Comedy Central, for what he says was an unfair dealHe conceded it's possible that current executives could be unaware of the situation, as it happened over a decade ago, and encouraged them to go to the accounting department to see how much money "Chappelle's Show" made compared to how much he was paid