Netflix removes Chappelle's Show at Dave Chappelle's request

Deadline

Earlier this month, Netflix and HBO Max began streaming Chappelle's Show. During his Nov. 7 SNL monologue, Chappelle brought up the news and made it be known he wasn't receiving any payment from ViacomCBS from Netflix streaming his old episodes. In a standup video posted to Instagram this morning titled Unforgiven, Chappelle said he asked Netflix, where he has a deal for standup specials, to take Chappelle’s Show down. Netflix tells Deadline it honored the request last night. Chappelle's Show can still be watched on ViacomCBS' Comedy Central and CBS All Access, as well as on HBO Max. According to Deadline, Chappelle said in Unforgiven: “People think I made a lot of money from Chappelle’s Show. When I left that show I never got paid. They (ViacomCBS) didn’t have to pay me because I signed the contract. But is that right? I found out that these people were streaming my work and they never had to ask me or they never have to tell me. Perfectly legal ‘cause I signed the contract. But is that right? I didn’t think so either. That’s why I like working for Netflix. I like working for Netflix because when all those bad things happened to me, that company didn’t even exist. And when I found out they were streaming Chappelle’s Show, I was furious. How could they not– how could they not know? So you know what I did? I called them and I told them that this makes me feel bad. And you want to know what they did? They agreed that they would take it off their platform just so I could feel better. That’s why I f*ck with Netflix. Because they paid me my money, they do what they say they’re going to do, and they went above and beyond what you could expect from a businessman. They did something just because they thought that I might think that they were wrong. And I do — I think that if you are f*cking streaming that show you’re fencing stolen goods.”