October 15, 2004

During this time, Chappelle began slipping into paranoia. He called his agent
and told him he was thinking of pulling the plug on the show. When his agent
asked why, Chappelle told him about the Dark Crusaders and how they were out
to end his career. His agent reportedly laughed, but after realizing Dave was
being serious, he recommended that Dave see a psychiatrist. Chappelle began
to retreat further into his shell. People close to him noticed that he began
to start drinking heavily and occasionally taking drugs. Word of this got out,
and rumors began to fly in the press about troubles with Chappelle’s Show. The
Dark Crusaders appeared finally to have reached Chappelle.

November 12, 2004

After another talk with his agent, Chappelle rallied himself and tried to give
the Show one last shot. With a $50 million dollar contract on the line, it wasn’t
surprising. During the show’s production, Dave’s secretary appeared on the set
to give him his messages for the day. One of those messages was from Dave’s
wife who had run into Bill Cosby in Ohio. The message said that Cosby had invited
Dave’s wife and her friend to a screening of Cosby’s show and that they were
going. After hearing this, Chappelle immediately told his secretary to book
the next flight to Ohio and left the set of the show running. This raised further
concern with the show’s cast members and Comedy Central. The entertainment press
continued reporting that the Chappelle show was troubled. Comedy Central summoned
Chappelle to a meeting to discuss the show’s problems.

December 10, 2004

Chappelle missed his scheduled meeting with Comedy Central to discuss the production
problems with the show. At this point, six shows had been completed, and Comedy
Central was growing anxious waiting for production on the remainder of the shows
to be completed so they could put it on their schedule. They had already sunk
a substantial amount of money into marketing the upcoming third season, and
were planning to make it the centerpiece of their upcoming lineup. Stories began
to appear in the mainstream media about the problems with the show.

December 26, 2004

The day after Christmas, Chappelle and his family were home, trying to enjoy
the holidays. Dave has taken to sleeping with a gun under his pillow and won’t
let his wife or children leave the house without him. Privately, his wife had
consulted with her Doctor about institutionalizing Dave. On that day, Chappelle
received a package that made him decide to halt the show’s production for good.
The package