Apparently R. Kelly’s People Threatened Dave Chappelle After Comedy Sketch
Apparently, R. Kelly’s people came after Dave Chappelle over an old sketch he did about the singer on Chappelle’s Show, which premiered in 2003 and lasted three seasons.
During an interview with The Breakfast Club on Tuesday, the show’s co-creator, Neal Brennan, described R. Kelly’s reaction to a sketch that poked fun at his legal troubles in a fictitious music video called “Piss on You,” making light of the singer’s 2002 indictment on child pornography charges after a video surfaced of a man believed to be him peeing on an underage girl.
“R. Kelly wanted to fight Dave,” he said. “Literally, his goons stepped to Dave in Chicago and Dave’s goons intervened. The goons negotiated.”
When he was asked if he felt the sketch helped to “normalize” R. Kelly’s behavior, Neal replied no, then: “I don’t think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things. Did people want us to round up a posse and go arrest R. Kelly? Like, what were we supposed to do?”
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People were mad last week that we did an R. Kelly sketches 15 years ago. Here's me explaining comedy to them. pic.twitter.com/FQoxIALqkr
— Neal Brennan (@nealbrennan) January 15, 2019