HBO MAX Removed "Chappelle's Show" after Dave Chappelle's Request

One of the things about Chappelle that's fascinating is he doesn't use any social media. He doesn't use anything. He consumes, right? He'll go on YouTube and watch videos. He's interested in things, but he doesn't fuck around with anything that has anything to do with him. He doesn't post things. He's not showing you his life. But he's got accounts. Yeah. He's got logins. He's only got one. He recently started it. It was for Instagram to let people know that HBO Max was using the Chappelle show and he wasn't getting paid for it. I followed some of that. Yeah. And that worked. So they pulled it off of Netflix and they pulled it off of HBO Max now. And now that's wild. It's wild. Who the fuck can do that? I mean, that to me was like, I mean, I get tweets because I work on Comedy Central. I get tweets like, I don't support you because you guys haven't paid Chappelle, as if I have any fucking thing to do with this. It's like Twitter, people are attacking me. It's like when people attacked me because I was playing a club that Louis had played that week or something. It's like, do you think I own Levity Live in West Nyack, New York? Yeah. But I was just thinking, what talent like Chappelle can just say, pull this off and they pull it off? I love that he just moved to Ohio out of the whole deal. He's been in Ohio for a long time. As a Michigander, I'm like, wait, you can have a career in showbiz? And this is what's fascinating about what's happening right now. You guys can have a career in showbiz and not be in New York and LA? Yeah. Well, he did it on purpose because he wants to be in a place where people are normal. He lives in a small town. He knows everybody at his grocery store. He knows everybody at the coffee shop and he's like a normal resident of the community. I love it. And he's taken a number asking for sliced turkey breast and someone was like, that's one of the greatest standup comments ever. Ever lived. He lives right down the street. He lives in a farm. Oh, that's great. He's a fascinating character. I love him. I love him. I love hanging out with him. He's just so fascinating. Comics always say that to know him and interact with him and that's awesome. Yeah. No, he's great. He's always been great too. I met him when he was 19. So did he not then get really well paid from the Chappelle show? He must have. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. Well, he walked away from a big part, a big chunk of money. And the thing that he walked away for... I was dealing with the same people at Comedy Central at the time because that's when Stan Hope and I were doing the mansion. And it was rough. There was a bunch of people that were not comedians and they were not creative, but they wanted to put all this creative input into the show, particularly because they had the chance to put their greasy little fingers all over it because Adam and Jimmy had left. And then they're like, okay, now we're going to mold this into what we want. Watch new episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience for free only on Spotify. Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips, easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience. On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free. Spotify is absolutely free. You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes. You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app. Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.