Mulaney was an assistant at Comedy Central when the channel’s biggest star decided to stop working.
Talk about comedic timing.
At the time, it made headlines everywhere and created a bit of a problem for Comedy Central.
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I was like Okay.
So I went in and was like So, Dave Chappelles gone.'
Like the boy who cried wolf fable, the online grid heads didnt entirely believe Mulaney at first.
Because yes, Chappelle wasnt at work yet, but hed done this before, Mulaney explains.
Chappelle would often be three or four hours late, so this was just another day at the office.
They wanted to get season 3 ofChappelle.
The tapes from production.
Chappelle, as we later learned, left his own show because he had acrisis of consciousness.
The phone call crisis luckily didnt scar Mulaney too much.
