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  • Jerry Seinfeld To Drink More Coffee With Comedians

    We’ve seen everyone from Howard Stern to Tina Fey to Don Rickles on Jerry Seinfeld’s web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. But who goes to get coffee with Seinfeld next season?

    Seinfeld recently stopped by Late Show With David Letterman to announce a few of the guests for the upcoming Season Five of his web series.

    We know that Jimmy Fallon will be on and that Seinfeld traveled all the way to Portland for the episode with Fred Armisen. In fact, it was reported just yesterday that Seinfeld and Armisen were spotted cruising around the hipster paradise. They made several stops, including the food cart pod on Southeast 28th Avenue, where the pair ate at Wolf and Bear’s.

    The guest list for Season Five also includes: Colleen Ballinge, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, and Ali Wentworth.

    But what exactly is the show about?

    It’s a pretty banal sounding concept to film two people driving around in a car and then sitting in a coffee shop. These two people are filmed just chatting, not about anything life-changing, or about anything important to the world. In all honesty, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is exactly what the name implies. It’s literally comedians in cars getting coffee (sometime they get lunch and sometimes they drive around for a while.)

    The comedy legend obviously does the show because he loves it. First off, he has a fondness for cars. He reportedly owns 47 different Porsches, which he houses in his $1.4 million garage in New York City.

    The structure of the show is pretty simple. Seinfeld picks up a comedian, or a person who is funny like Alec Baldwin or Jon Stewart, usually at their place of residence, in a different car for each episode. During the first few minutes of every show, before he picks up his guest, Seinfeld will go over all the specific details about the cool car he is driving.

    Seinfeld also loves to talk to other comics. And if his hit sitcom Seinfeld taught us anything, we know that there doesn’t really have to be a point. The show about nothing made the stand up hundreds of millions of dollars.

    If you’re interested in checking out the series, all four completed seasons are up on the Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee website. You can check them out by clicking here.

    The 5th season of the web series premieres on November 6.

  • Dave Chappelle Says His Return to the Stage Is a ‘Healing Experience’

    Dave Chappelle says he is thrilled to be back on stage again.

    “It’s been wonderful,” Chappelle told People magazine Sunday at the 20th Annual Essence Festival in New Orleans. “Being back, what I’ve found this year is that everywhere I’ve gone, people have been overwhelmingly supportive.”

    The comedian sold out nine Radio City Music Hall performances last month and says he’s back where he belongs.

    The 40-year-old told the magazine he left his hit show, Chappelle’s Show, in 2005 because family took precedence over his career.

    “I never stopped being on stage. What I did was step off of the main stage,” he said. “That kind of attention wouldn’t have been conducive to raising a family.”

    Chappelle surprised the world when he gave up his $50 million dollar contract with Comedy Central to go explore Africa. Though he likely doesn’t regret his decision to leave the spotlight, the comedian still missed being on stage.

    “The audience-comedian relationship is one of the more consistent relationships in my life,” he said. “I started doing this at such a young age, that not doing it was alien. [Being back] has been a healing experience. I couldn’t even tell people what it means to me. It’s sincerely a pleasure to entertain.”

    In June, Chappelle made a stop by the Late Show with David Letterman and explained — sort of — why he left the way he did.

    “Technically, I never quit. I’m seven years late for work,” Chappelle jokingly told Letterman.

    The comedian also clarified some misconceptions about that infamous disappearing act to South Africa in 2005, stating that he never actually lived there.

    “I was there for two weeks,” Chappelle said. “I mean, there’s not too many good hiding places left in America.”

    Chappelle and his wife, Elaine, have two sons, Sulayman and Ibrahim, and daughter Sonal.

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  • Dave Chappelle Talks ‘Comedy Central’ With Letterman

    Dave Chappelle made his first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in ten years and talked about his stint on Comedy Central, including walking away from a reported $55 million deal.

    “Of course I would like to have that money,” Chappelle said. “Sometimes I listen to a Jay Z record, and it starts making me feel bad about some of the choices I’ve made. This guy has had more fun on two songs than I’ve had over the last 11 years.”

    Chappelle said friends have tried to console him about the lost deal by citing his integrity, but he said there are still some who think his decision to walk away from the Chappelle Show in 2005 was crazy.

    “I go home and make my kids some integrity sandwiches,” said the father of three. “There are other things in my life that I do not purchase with money that are very valuable.”

    The comedian acknowledged that, at times, he misses the lucrative payoff of his Comedy Central contract.

    “The only difference between having $10 million and $50 million is an astounding $40 million,” he said.

    Chappelle said he took off for South Africa after making the decision and was unaware of all the coverage of his “mysterious disappearance.”

    The comic joked with Letterman that he techically never quit his show. “I’m seven years late for work,” he said.

    He told Letterman his departure from the show was equivalent to a divorce in the 1950s.

    “People didn’t go to Divorce Court. They’d look at their wife like, ‘baby I am going to go get a pack of cigarettes I will be right back,” Chappelle said. “They just leave with the clothes on their back and make a go of it.”

    Chappelle made his appearance on Letterman‘s show to promote his upcoming performances at Radio Music Hall in New York from June 18-26.

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