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After watching Bamboozled I began to find similarities between the fictional new millennium minstrel show and Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central show which ended after two seasons. The show is offensive to all. But the majority is based on black contrasted with white stereotypes in the United States. Having sketches based on a variety of different issues. The sketches always work with contrasting the (default) white against (coloured) non-white, often placing the colourful persona in the shoes of being default. This often is what makes the premises of the sketches and it worked. This was great until Chapelle began to have second thoughts about his creation like Pierre Delacroix does in Bamboozled. The masses love both shows and for Chapelle the appeal of his show did the opposite of what he envisioned. It was a way to critique the absurdity of racism but this was overshadowed by the acceptability of its characters and sketches as ok. Both shows became an uncontrollable monster for their creators.