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‘PIXIE’SKETCH DOOMED DAVE

FANS of “Chappelle’s Show” will finally get to see what all the hoopla was about tomorrow night – when Comedy Central airs the sketch that prompted star Dave Chappelle to quit his show.

“The Pixie Sketch,” as it’s called – included in the second of three new”Chappelle’s Show” episodes after much hand-wringing by producers – airs tomorrow at 9 p.m.

The sketch features Chappelle as different pixies who encourage Black, White, Hispanic and Asian people to conform to racial stereotypes.

In interviews earlier this year, Chappelle said that it was while filming this sketch that he believed the show’s writing had become “socially irresponsible.”

Before completing the sketch, in fact, Chappelle walked off the show’s set and away from a $50 million deal with Comedy Central – turning up several weeks later in South Africa.

Since then, Chappelle has blasted Comedy Central, his former co-workers and friends for using what little footage had already been filmed to put together the current three-episode “lost” season.

Tomorrow’s sketch is followed by a mostly sober and unforeseen “town hall” discussion of racial stereotypes by show hosts Donnell Rawlings and Charlie Murphy and members of the studio audience.

In the final moments of the impromptu discussion, a woman who attended the taping last April perhaps best sums up the controversy: “I don’t think it’s the responsibility of this show to educate everybody in the world – it’s a comedy show,” she says.

“Even if it is being a responsible comedy show, no matter how responsible you are, you’re not going to be able to educate everybody in the world and you have to stick to what your true goal is – making people laugh.”