Dave Chappelle Was ‘Joking’ About Jon Stewart, Jamie Foxx and Busta Rhymes Breaking Attacker’s Arm
usmagazine.comMaking light of a scary situation. After an audience member recently attacked Dave Chappelle on stage, the comedian claimed that a few of his celebrity friends broke the man’s arm — but the quip was just part of his routine.“I felt good my friends broke his arm.
I felt good,” the Chappelle’s Show alum, 48, said at the afterparty for the “Netflix Is A Joke” event on Tuesday, May 3, per an audio recording obtained by TMZ.
He also quipped — in addition to his claims that Jamie Foxx and Busta Rhymes assisted with beating up the attacker — “How bad does a [N-word] have to be that Jon Stewart would stomp him?”According to the actor’s rep, Carla Sims, Chappelle was just “joking” about his friends hurting the perpetrator, who has since been identified as Isiah Lee.
Sims confirmed that Stewart, 59, Foxx, 54, and Rhymes, 49, did not attack Lee.At the time of the Ohio native’s show earlier this week, Lee stormed the stage with a fake gun and a real knife, tackling Chappelle to the ground.
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