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Dave Chappelle thinks Oprah Winfrey is having his baby, shares his experience as a member of a jury pool on the OJ. Simpson trial, explores the notion that white people can't dance and charts his own emotional growth. Anarchic comic Paul Mooney, another troupe member, answers life's biggest questions as "Negrodamus."
Those are some of the themes that aired in the mix of sketches, pop culture parodies and man-on-the-street pieces on the second season of "Chappelle's Show," which is hitting its mark with young, hip audiences and becoming a ratings generator for Comedy Central.
Trumpeting the slogan "It's the comedy equivalent of crack; one try and you're hooked," the show's mix of irreverent, racially tinged humor offends some but impresses the critics. "Dave Chappelle could be the funniest guy on the planet," proclaimed the New York Post, while Elvis Mitchell, writing for The New York Times, said that Mr. Chappelle "isn't content just to play the race card. he shuffles the whole deck."
That tendency was exemplified in this season's sketch "The Niggar Family," a 1950s-style sitcom-it's...