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Chappelle's Show - Season 2
Directors: Andre Allen (II), Bill Berner, Todd Broder, Rusty Cundieff, Bob Goldthwait
Actors: Liz Beckham, Anthony Berry, Billy Burr, Dave Chappelle, and DJ Cipha Sounds
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Retail Price (not our price): $36.98
Release Date: 2005-05-24
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-01-22
Studio: Comedy Central
Run Time: 275 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Discs: 3


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Dave Chappelle's shrewd parodies, stinging satires, and boldly imaginative fantasias simply pour from the second season of his Comedy Central show, in every respect as funny as his well-received debut year. The structure is the same: a relaxed Chappelle introduces each sketch to an enthusiastic, studio audience (some of these introductions amount to stand-up routines), and then the madness begins. Among the many highlights from the 13 episodes on this boxed set's three discs is a mock ad for Samuel L. Jackson beer, featuring Chappelle's hilarious impression of Jackson's stern, overbearing persona from Pulp Fiction, and a dozen other features. Chappelle, considering a career in politics, floats a couple of trial campaign commercials, including one that promises to solve America's health care crisis by giving every citizen a fake Canadian I.D. Chappelle also suggests an effective program for teaching sexual abstinence to high school students: Forcing them to watch their principals have sex with the oldest female teachers on staff. There's a good bit, too, about black soothsayer Negrodamus, whose ability to foresee events is limited to the fortunes of celebrities. Coming under fire (amusingly) are those McDonald's commercials suggesting that burger-flipping employment for African Americans can overhaul inner city communities. But, as with season 1, there are several masterpieces in this collection as well, such as Chappelle's vision of what the Internet would look like if it was a place you could actually, physically visit (with the equivalents of pop-up ads, porn sites, etc.). Equally inspired is a sketch in which a freeloading Chappelle, having impregnated the ultra-rich Oprah Winfrey, indulges his every whim. Best of all is Chappelle's take on what President Bush's administration would look like if the Chief Executive were, in fact, a black man. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) DVD IS THE BESTT!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This dvd is the best, very funny, great entertainment. would recommend it to anyone it is simply the best.

2) simply hilarious   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
there's a reason they offered him $50 million to do another season. this stuff is funny, real funny

3) Hittin on all cylinders - Classic!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Could Dave do any better than season 2? Not sure. The jokes were so on point that it's near perfection. My favorite episodes:Rick James - no brainer. F@ck your couch!I Know Black People - What's the lyric to the theme of Good Times? ClassicWayne Brady - Wayne Brady got his ghetto pass back on this one.The Real World Episode - That was just skanless!The Blind Black White Supremacist - Genius

4) the man is brilliant!   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Chappelle is brilliant. I really needed something like this too. You know. Hard day at work. Really wanna laugh at something clever. Terrified to buy something that says it's funny. Chappelle is funny like that powerful funny that you are not ashamed at laughing at but in the back of your head you feel what he is saying and it's very powerful. He is great. A brilliant comic. One of very few.

5) One of the greatest sketch comedy shows ever produced....   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
There are several sketch comedy shows that really stand out and are still funny, no matter how often you see them. Monty Python is my favorite, and still unsurpassed in sketch comedy. Another one is the early years of SNL. I also love The Two Ronnies. The other brilliant sketch show is this one, Chappelle's Show. Even though there were only 2 seasons (the "lost episodes" don't really count, as Dave didn't want them released), they were some of the funniest sketch stuff that I've ever seen, where I was literally rolling in the aisles and had to pause for a few minutes because I was dying of laughter. Chappelle has that unspoken quality, that aura if you will, that many artists/performers have. You're just born with that. And his stuff is absolutely hilarious. I love many sketches here, like the "when keepin' it real goes wrong" sketch, the "three Daves" sketch, the white supremacist sketch, Tyrone the crack guy, Little Jim, and, of course, the Rick James sketch. There's a few clunkers here and there (mostly black Gallagher and Samuel Jackson's beer), but there are incredibly minor complaints when you look at how brilliant the rest of the material is. Perhaps Dave was right to cut off the series before he started repeating himself. Who knows? We still have these 2 hilarious seasons, and I really miss the Chappelle Show.