but that makes no damn sense since they gave him a new contract and wanted him to continue upon this path
white hollywood didn't give a single fukk about what oprah was saying.. they was paying him to keep doing what he was doing...
unless you saying dave quit cause of oprah... but that still wouldn't make sense as oprah can't do shyt, cause once again, he already got paid
If I remember correctly, Dave said once he signed for that 3rd Season everything changed. He said they had been shooting the show HIS way since it begun & Comedy Central didn't really care at first but when the show blew up the way it did they took notice. He said when he came in to start working on the 3rd Season there were all these new staff & people from CC on his set & they started having marketing meetings with him out of nowhere, etc.
He said what made him really walk away was 3 things. One, he said now all of a sudden CC felt like they knew what to do with the show instead of letting the show continue to do what made it blow up... they tried to strip his creative control. 2, he said in one of those marketing meetings they compiled a list of viewers favorite skits & wanted him to do more like those. He said he noticed they were all skits that fed into black stereotypes & none of his skits of other races, cultures, etc, were included in the "direction" CC wanted him to go. 3... he said he had made a joke on stage or on set in front of a live audience that involved a black stereotype. How hard this hillbilly looking white dude was laughing was like a light switch that made him feel like he'd been making certain people laugh at the expense of black people in his skits & it made him look at his show differently.
On set during the 3rd Season he said he didn't like how CC had been running things now & felt he was being used & $50 Mil wasn't worth it so he walked off. He also stated I think that he grew up on a farm & is low maintenance. He said people criticizing him for turning down that money don't realize he's already rich...