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🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Dave Chappell decided to join Michelle Obama on her podcast and revealed why he walked away from $50M for the Chappell Show and addressed the rumor that he moved to Africa. Chappell: “I went through the whole process of mourning the narrative I had in my head that... show more

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Dave Chappelle says he walked away from $50,000,000 and didn’t even notice he was making $8M in a single year “I thought my career was over. I believed that for a few more years. So I went through the whole process of mourning the narrative I had in my head of being a big star. And at that time I was just back in Yellow Springs. Welcome back, superstar. I was like, oh man…” “Took me four years to get over it. But man, imagine how liberating that is, to believe that it’s over. And I got over it, and I just went back to work. I still needed money, and I could still fill rooms up, ’cause people liked the show. So I started back in comedy clubs” “One time somebody called me saying, Congratulations, you just made the Forbes list. And I’m like what? And I looked, because I don’t just count the money as it comes in. I looked, and that year… I’d made $8,000,000” “And I was tenth in the top ten. And then I looked at the other nine names, and I’m like, maybe I should come back”

Dave Chappelle says he walked away from $50,000,000 and didn’t even notice he was making $8M in a single year “I thought my career was over. I believed that for a few more years. So I went through the whole process of mourning the narrative I had in my head of being a big star. And at that time I was just back in Yellow Springs. Welcome back, superstar. I was like, oh man…” “Took me four years to get over it. But man, imagine how liberating that is, to believe that it’s over. And I got over it, and I just went back to work. I still needed money, and I could still fill rooms up, ’cause people liked the show. So I started back in comedy clubs” “One time somebody called me saying, Congratulations, you just made the Forbes list. And I’m like what? And I looked, because I don’t just count the money as it comes in. I looked, and that year… I’d made $8,000,000” “And I was tenth in the top ten. And then I looked at the other nine names, and I’m like, maybe I should come back”

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Dave Chappelle REVEALS the SHOCKING REALITY of why he WALKED AWAY from $50 MILLION at the HEIGHT of his FAME, he also explains that he didn't just QUIT a show, he had to MOURN his own LIFE to SAVE his SANITY 👀😳 “I went through the whole process of mourning the narrative I had in my head of being a big star… imagine how liberating it is to believe that it’s over”

Dave Chappelle REVEALS the SHOCKING REALITY of why he WALKED AWAY from $50 MILLION at the HEIGHT of his FAME, he also explains that he didn't just QUIT a show, he had to MOURN his own LIFE to SAVE his SANITY 👀😳 “I went through the whole process of mourning the narrative I had in my head of being a big star… imagine how liberating it is to believe that it’s over”

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Selena Gomez says meeting an 8-year-old boy with lupus made her understand why she went through her own illness "One story that will forever be in my mind to the day I die was this young boy. He was 8 years old and he was in the hospital. He had lupus and he was waiting to get diagnosed and also for a transplant. I had experienced both" "When I walked into the room, he kept looking down and he was very nervous. So I kept asking the mother, 'Is it okay that I'm here? Should I maybe just step out?' And they insisted that he'd like me to stay" "So I just kind of talked about the surroundings and tried to make him feel comfortable and didn't get in his space" "And all of a sudden, as I'm rambling on about the drawings on the wall, he just looks down and says, 'Is it true that you have lupus too?'" "And I looked at him and I said, 'Yes.' And it was the first time that he looked up and he finally acknowledged me" "I remember thinking, 'That's really powerful.' That's something I register in my mind as that's why I went through it. So I don't look back and feel, 'How miserable, and I can't believe I had to go through that'" "I look back and say, 'All right, now how can I be there for someone else? What's going to happen to someone who feels the same way?'"

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I asked Jaylen Brown about Sam Hauser for the three-point record and he started laughing: “It was terrible. I remember when Sam almost had the record when we were in Washington, and he hurt his ankle, and I didn't play that game, and I was in the back, and I was like, ‘Bro, you got to get back out there. I need you to get that record.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, it's gonna come back to me. That was two years ago…. It might not be another two years.” “But it was a joy to watch, man. We was all rooting for him. I wanted him to get it, but probably it was a little bit too much pressure on it.”

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Gangster Cinema Central

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Chris Bosh says he found out LeBron was leaving Miami through a text 10 minutes before it was announced 😳 “I thought it was BS. 10 minutes later it was everywhere. I get it but at the time I didn’t understand it. At the time I was ready to put the team back together cause we had just lost so we wanted to put something back together so we could win. And it really didn’t go like that. I took offense to it tbh… I’m a competitor and tbh when you go back to the locker room and Bron ain’t in that chair and everybody is looking at you and D Wade for that 25 points it’s like damn, man. Sh*t my knee hurts… I was upset it took months to get over it. We had to be in the same place and talk about it… We had to get back to a mode of not rebuilding but getting more out of ourselves and not always having that easy thing relying on 6 to do his job” (Via ALL THE SMOKE)

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1,607,770 views • 5 months ago

Nick Young says Iggy Azalea took all the furniture from the house and the classic '64 Impala after their breakup “We had a deal where I get the house and she put the furniture in. So I got the house and she didn't trust my style of buying furniture and stuff, so she was like she's going to pay for it. After it was over, I come back, all the furniture was gone. Bed gone” “I came home and everything was gone. I came home to a tow truck towing the car she got me. A '64 Impala for my birthday. It was clean too. Drop-top. It was on the tow truck. I'm like, ‘What the.’ It was still in her name” “I loved that car because it was blue, it was LA. She took that. So I was being petty. I took the ring back”

Nick Young says Iggy Azalea took all the furniture from the house and the classic '64 Impala after their breakup “We had a deal where I get the house and she put the furniture in. So I got the house and she didn't trust my style of buying furniture and stuff, so she was like she's going to pay for it. After it was over, I come back, all the furniture was gone. Bed gone” “I came home and everything was gone. I came home to a tow truck towing the car she got me. A '64 Impala for my birthday. It was clean too. Drop-top. It was on the tow truck. I'm like, ‘What the.’ It was still in her name” “I loved that car because it was blue, it was LA. She took that. So I was being petty. I took the ring back”

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715,192 views • 13 days ago

Actor William Fichtner explains how the lowest point of his career, long before his success, became the turning point that kept him going: He shares a moment from his early days in New York when everything he'd worked for felt like it was slipping away. "I think I was 30 years old and I was in New York and I hit the end of the road. I ran out of money. I had no commercial residual. I had nothing." After a few years of scraping by, a little money in theater and a few residuals from commercials, he had to go back to waiting tables. And it crushed him to compare himself to everyone he'd come up with: "I felt like I was falling backwards and I was 30 now. Everybody that I knew I graduated college with [had] a company car and I was just... it was depressing." He describes the morning he went to ask for a brunch shift at the White Horse Tavern in the West Village, a place he knew people went to: "I woke up. I was brushing my teeth. I started crying. I really was. I was walking that street going, 'Just, it's all right, man. It's all right. You're not falling backwards. You're not going off the end of the earth.'" On the walk, it got worse before it got better. He passed someone from his past: "I passed a guy that I hadn't seen in a couple of years that was like kind of like an old friend. And I said hi to him and he walked by and he just kind of looked at me like he didn't recognize me. It was horrible. It was just horrible." Then he walked into the restaurant, and the manager met him with hostility, telling him he was on the schedule the day before, hadn't even started, and was already fired. But instead of breaking him, it freed him: "I said, 'Thank you.' I walked out of there. I said, 'I have absolutely nothing right now and I'm feeling so good and I'm not working at your f****** restaurant today, buddy.'" He went home to find a place to re-energize. Looking back, that brutal day became a great one: "Just great, great day." The lowest point can feel like proof you're failing, but sometimes it's just part of the process. Years before his success, that morning could have ended his career. Instead it became the turning point that kept him going.

Actor William Fichtner explains how the lowest point of his career, long before his success, became the turning point that kept him going: He shares a moment from his early days in New York when everything he'd worked for felt like it was slipping away. "I think I was 30 years old and I was in New York and I hit the end of the road. I ran out of money. I had no commercial residual. I had nothing." After a few years of scraping by, a little money in theater and a few residuals from commercials, he had to go back to waiting tables. And it crushed him to compare himself to everyone he'd come up with: "I felt like I was falling backwards and I was 30 now. Everybody that I knew I graduated college with [had] a company car and I was just... it was depressing." He describes the morning he went to ask for a brunch shift at the White Horse Tavern in the West Village, a place he knew people went to: "I woke up. I was brushing my teeth. I started crying. I really was. I was walking that street going, 'Just, it's all right, man. It's all right. You're not falling backwards. You're not going off the end of the earth.'" On the walk, it got worse before it got better. He passed someone from his past: "I passed a guy that I hadn't seen in a couple of years that was like kind of like an old friend. And I said hi to him and he walked by and he just kind of looked at me like he didn't recognize me. It was horrible. It was just horrible." Then he walked into the restaurant, and the manager met him with hostility, telling him he was on the schedule the day before, hadn't even started, and was already fired. But instead of breaking him, it freed him: "I said, 'Thank you.' I walked out of there. I said, 'I have absolutely nothing right now and I'm feeling so good and I'm not working at your f****** restaurant today, buddy.'" He went home to find a place to re-energize. Looking back, that brutal day became a great one: "Just great, great day." The lowest point can feel like proof you're failing, but sometimes it's just part of the process. Years before his success, that morning could have ended his career. Instead it became the turning point that kept him going.

Big Brain Business

348,115 views • 1 month ago

Mike Malott shares details of having the Canadian flag taken away from him after his win in Winnipeg: “I went to lift the flag, and I don’t know if it was a commission guy or who it was, but he was like, ‘Oh, you’re not allowed to have it in the octagon.’ I said, ‘Can I jump up on the side?’ He said, ‘Sure.’ So I jumped up, and then I lifted the flag. As I was pulling it up, he snatched it out of my hand—did it all shitty. He snatched it and looked at me. I was like, ‘Dude, what the hell, man? One, don’t try to be a tough guy to me—I just fought in the cage. And number two, I don’t understand what the rule is that says I couldn’t have that flag. I walked out with it.’”

Mike Malott shares details of having the Canadian flag taken away from him after his win in Winnipeg: “I went to lift the flag, and I don’t know if it was a commission guy or who it was, but he was like, ‘Oh, you’re not allowed to have it in the octagon.’ I said, ‘Can I jump up on the side?’ He said, ‘Sure.’ So I jumped up, and then I lifted the flag. As I was pulling it up, he snatched it out of my hand—did it all shitty. He snatched it and looked at me. I was like, ‘Dude, what the hell, man? One, don’t try to be a tough guy to me—I just fought in the cage. And number two, I don’t understand what the rule is that says I couldn’t have that flag. I walked out with it.’”

Ariel Helwani

357,194 views • 3 months ago

Zendaya reveals how she freaked out when Tom Holland told her about starring in The Odyssey. "He had the script, and I may have taken a little peek. I had to know. He had a Christopher Nolan script in my house, what am I gonna do? So I looked" "Then he went off to his meeting, and when he came home, I was like, 'Okay! Tell me all about it! How was it? What was it like?' You know what I mean? I was so ready, so excited" "And he goes, 'Read this again.' And I was like, 'What? Why? We just read it last night.' He was like, 'Read it again, but with Athena in mind.' And I was like, 'Yo, stop it right there'" "I freaked out. I was so grateful. And the fact that he got to be the one to tell me, it was so special"

Zendaya reveals how she freaked out when Tom Holland told her about starring in The Odyssey. "He had the script, and I may have taken a little peek. I had to know. He had a Christopher Nolan script in my house, what am I gonna do? So I looked" "Then he went off to his meeting, and when he came home, I was like, 'Okay! Tell me all about it! How was it? What was it like?' You know what I mean? I was so ready, so excited" "And he goes, 'Read this again.' And I was like, 'What? Why? We just read it last night.' He was like, 'Read it again, but with Athena in mind.' And I was like, 'Yo, stop it right there'" "I freaked out. I was so grateful. And the fact that he got to be the one to tell me, it was so special"

Buggy

6,515,860 views • 11 days ago

Adam Sandler says he got fired from NBC and sang it on their stage25 years later and told them he made $4,000,000 at the box office ‘I always tell them how SNL was the best time of my life and my daughter asked me if it was the greatest why did I leave well honey there is a reason’ ‘I was fired,I was fired,I was fired,I was fired so sad to tell well I never saw it coming I got fired from SNL between seasons I heard it as a rumor that I was getting the sack I tried to call but he never call me back’ ‘I guess NBC had enough of crazy spoon head and the song I sang on the news maybe they was sick of cantina boy but I think they just hate the Jews’

Adam Sandler says he got fired from NBC and sang it on their stage25 years later and told them he made $4,000,000 at the box office ‘I always tell them how SNL was the best time of my life and my daughter asked me if it was the greatest why did I leave well honey there is a reason’ ‘I was fired,I was fired,I was fired,I was fired so sad to tell well I never saw it coming I got fired from SNL between seasons I heard it as a rumor that I was getting the sack I tried to call but he never call me back’ ‘I guess NBC had enough of crazy spoon head and the song I sang on the news maybe they was sick of cantina boy but I think they just hate the Jews’

zaza

2,825,981 views • 21 days ago

The wife of former President Barack Obama says she had to fight for her family because the White House wasn’t built with wives and children in mind. Michelle Obama: “I didn’t know enough to know what to ask for.” Steven Bartlett: “What should you have said?” Michell Obama: “I should have said that I needed his team to really truly value that he had a family” Michelle Obama: “The whole system of it doesn’t really take into account that there’s a wife and kids and their needs.” Michelle Obama: “I wound up having to fight for a lot of stuff on my own.” Michelle Obama: “It was important for me that we find two detail leaders that stayed with the girls for most of their time.” Michelle Obama: “I was trying to make sure that our kids came out of that process not crazy and whole.”

The wife of former President Barack Obama says she had to fight for her family because the White House wasn’t built with wives and children in mind. Michelle Obama: “I didn’t know enough to know what to ask for.” Steven Bartlett: “What should you have said?” Michell Obama: “I should have said that I needed his team to really truly value that he had a family” Michelle Obama: “The whole system of it doesn’t really take into account that there’s a wife and kids and their needs.” Michelle Obama: “I wound up having to fight for a lot of stuff on my own.” Michelle Obama: “It was important for me that we find two detail leaders that stayed with the girls for most of their time.” Michelle Obama: “I was trying to make sure that our kids came out of that process not crazy and whole.”

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1,098,625 views • 1 month ago

“I woke to a crushing sensation, like if you were on the bottom of a dog pile of people on top of you, and I just wanted to scream, get off me so I can breathe. At that moment I heard, and ‘heard’ is not the right word for it, it was like a sensational sound that shot through my head behind my ear and went inside, not an audible sound, but a different sound that increased in pitch and intensity and ended in a soft pop that felt like it was in the center of my head. That overpressure wave shot through my body from head to toes and I felt every single muscle in my body lock up, like being electrocuted. It was like nothing I’ve ever felt in my life before or after, and I thought, is this one of those sleep paralysis demons, because every single muscle then relaxed and I felt like I was falling through the bed and floor.”

“I woke to a crushing sensation, like if you were on the bottom of a dog pile of people on top of you, and I just wanted to scream, get off me so I can breathe. At that moment I heard, and ‘heard’ is not the right word for it, it was like a sensational sound that shot through my head behind my ear and went inside, not an audible sound, but a different sound that increased in pitch and intensity and ended in a soft pop that felt like it was in the center of my head. That overpressure wave shot through my body from head to toes and I felt every single muscle in my body lock up, like being electrocuted. It was like nothing I’ve ever felt in my life before or after, and I thought, is this one of those sleep paralysis demons, because every single muscle then relaxed and I felt like I was falling through the bed and floor.”

Shawn Ryan

382,068 views • 5 months ago

George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

George Lucas on how he had to reluctantly write the screenplay for 'American Graffiti' (1973) & the confidence he gained from the movie's success: "When I was doing 'American Graffiti' (1973) I was still struggling with my ‘I don’t want to be a writer’ syndrome. I had some good friends of mine that I wanted to write the screenplay, but it took me like two years just to get the money to do a screenplay. And I got a little tiny amount of money and—which I had to go actually to the Cannes Film Festival to get on my own. So finally I got this money. I called back and I said, you know, “I got the money. We can start working on the screenplay.” And they said, “Oh, we don’t want to do that now. We’ve got our own low-budget picture off the ground and we can’t write it.” I said, “Oh no.” I said, “What am I going to do? I am in Europe and I’m not going to be back for like three months and I want to get this thing off the ground.” So they recommended another student from school that I knew pretty well. I had a story treatment that laid out the entire story scene by scene, so I called him over the phone from London and I said, “Do you want to do this?” And he said, “Okay.” The person I was working with at that time as a producer made a deal with him for the whole money because there wasn’t very much. It was so tiny that he could only get him to do it for the whole amount of money. When I came back from England, the screenplay was a completely different screenplay from the story treatment. It was more like 'Hot Rods to Hell' (1967). It was very fantasy-like, with playing chicken and things that kids didn’t really do. I wanted something that was more like the way I grew up. So I took that and I said, “Okay. Now here I am. I’ve got a deal to turn in a screenplay. I’ve got a screenplay that is just not the kind of screenplay I want at all and I have no money.” And, I spent the very last money I had saved up to go to Europe to make the deal, so I had nothing. That was a very dark period for me so I sat down myself and wrote the screenplay. After I did 'American Graffiti', and it was successful, it was a big moment for me because I really did sit down with myself and say, “Okay, now I am a director. Now I know I can get a job. I can work in this industry, and apply my trade, and express my ideas on things and be creative in a way that I enjoy. Even if I end up doing TV commercials or something, or I fall back into what I really love is documentaries. I’ll be able to do it. I know I can get a job somewhere. I know I can raise money somewhere. I know I can do what I want to do.” That was a very good feeling. At that point, I’d made it. There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies." ('‘American Graffiti’ at 52: A Sentimentally Affectionate Look at America Before the Collective Loss of Innocence', Sven Mikulec, Cinephilia & Beyond)

DepressedBergman

56,916 views • 7 months ago

So, I decided to go back to standing and Bruiser was all over me!! Look at that look at the end. Is that love or what?? I put my hand down later and he gently brushed against then whipped his head back to see if I’d moved. I had not. So he rubbed his whole body again it!

So, I decided to go back to standing and Bruiser was all over me!! Look at that look at the end. Is that love or what?? I put my hand down later and he gently brushed against then whipped his head back to see if I’d moved. I had not. So he rubbed his whole body again it!

Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖

18,719 views • 5 months ago

"I was asked if I would want to come back and serve as the interim head coach... I felt like it was my duty to do that." Bobby Petrino has nine weeks to show Arkansas why he should be the next HC of the Razorbacks. #WPS More from BP and Hunter Yurachek ⤵️

"I was asked if I would want to come back and serve as the interim head coach... I felt like it was my duty to do that." Bobby Petrino has nine weeks to show Arkansas why he should be the next HC of the Razorbacks. #WPS More from BP and Hunter Yurachek ⤵️

Evan Kamikow

212,604 views • 10 months ago

The day AP did this to me, I cried. It was several years ago at the AP station in Gbagada I was working at Anthony Village at the time My car ran out of fuel on my way to work, I drove into AP station and bought 5000 Naira worth of fuel I paid and as I was driving out of the petrol station, the car sputtered and the engine died. I didn’t even consider that it was a fuel issue I thought the car, which was an old BMW had developed a fault. I took a bus to Ketu to get my mechanic We returned together to the car and the mechanic said “Epo lo tan ninu e” I said “No way, see nah, I just bought fuel before the car died here. The man looked at me, said I should give him 2000 Naira He went to another filling station and brought back a Jerry can full of petrol. He poured it into the car and the car started. I started avoiding AP fuel stations from that day

The day AP did this to me, I cried. It was several years ago at the AP station in Gbagada I was working at Anthony Village at the time My car ran out of fuel on my way to work, I drove into AP station and bought 5000 Naira worth of fuel I paid and as I was driving out of the petrol station, the car sputtered and the engine died. I didn’t even consider that it was a fuel issue I thought the car, which was an old BMW had developed a fault. I took a bus to Ketu to get my mechanic We returned together to the car and the mechanic said “Epo lo tan ninu e” I said “No way, see nah, I just bought fuel before the car died here. The man looked at me, said I should give him 2000 Naira He went to another filling station and brought back a Jerry can full of petrol. He poured it into the car and the car started. I started avoiding AP fuel stations from that day

Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo

26,546 views • 13 days ago