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Yesterday, MTV posted a story about Dave Chappelle's quiet return to the country that drove him to crack crazy to intentions-checking (making it prehistoric in blog time, so please excuse us for finally getting around to reading it tattooed on the ass of a triceratops), but this is the first we're hearing about it:

Don't get your hopes up just yet, but the good news is that Dave Chappelle is back on U.S. soil. The AWOL comedian has been spotted several times in the past week in his hometown of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and has seemingly ended his "spiritual" retreat in South Africa.

So, once again, no breath-holding on the Chappelle's Show front; Comedy Central's giving him some chill-out space, lest he flee again to South Africa with a suitcase full of their money. But maybe we shouldn't have dismissed as, er, crazy (or was it high?) the reader who told us (admittedly secondhand) that Chappelle was spotted at the ArcLight on Saturday. We'd just assumed that they'd seen an overzealous Star Wars fan rocking a Lando Calrissian costume.