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.
“They were like ‘you have to interrupt the meeting and tell them’,” he says about the person on the phone, referring to network executives who were behind closed doors. “I was like ‘Okay.’ So I went in and was like ‘So, Dave Chappelle’s gone.'” Like the boy who cried wolf fable, the network heads didn’t entirely believe Mulaney at first. Because yes, Chappelle wasn’t at work yet, but he’d done this before, Mulaney explains. Chappelle would often be three or four hours late, so this was just another day at the office. But Mulaney, who was the temporary assistant to the then-head of development, knew this time was just a little bit different.
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