Dave Chappelle Possibly To Tour With Chris Rock: Will The Now Muscle-Bound Comedian Reclaim The National Spotlight? [VIDEO]

Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock set the rumor mill churning last month about a possible tour, when Rock joined the Chappelle's Show" creator onstage for the latter's three-day stint at the Comedy Cellar in New York City.

Chappelle and Rock spent more than an hour onstage together at the February 26 show, prank calling Arsenio Hall and Lenny Kravitz before addressing the possibility of a tour together.

"I've got time between now and the movie," Rock told Chappelle onstage, according to Comic's Comic. "By Halloween, I could do dates."

"After next Tuesday, I'm free for like 11 years," Chappelle shot back.

Dave said the tour should be called "Fireside Chats with Chris Rock."

"I'm in," Rock answered.

The pair even tried to lure each other to the opposite coasts.

"Come out to Oakland," Chappelle told Rock.

"You should come down to West Palm," Rock replied.

Although a rep for Chappelle contacted Wednesday, wouldn't deny or confirm the rumors to Entertainment Weekly, Rock told New York Magazine back in May that he had been pushing the now muscle-bound Chappelle to tour with him for some time.

"I've been talking to Chappelle a lot," Rock said. "Been trying to get Chappelle to go on tour."

An infamously reclusive performer, Chappelle is perhaps best known for walking away from a $50 million contract to write and star in the third season of his groundbreaking sketch comedy program "Chappelle's Show," which aired on Comedy Central between 2003 and 2006.

Chappelle left the show abruptly and headed to South Africa after being troubled that the race-oriented comedy sketches on the show were being misinterpreted.

"I can't think of anyone else in television history who made the kind of career move that he did, to walk away," television historian Tim Brooks told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

Considered by many to be the most accurate portrayal of hip hop culture to ever hit the small screen, "Chappelle's Show" offered an honest examination of race relations while offering gut-busting laughs, a rare formula.

Chappelle and the show's co-creator Neal Brennan flipped the racial script for maximum comedic effect in sketches featuring a black KKK member, a black George W. Bush and a nearly all-black cast of "The Real World."

"His take on hip-hop was genuine, which is why it was so well-received," said Morehouse College psychology professor David Wall Rice. "The significance of Dave Chappelle is that he told the truth."

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