Quick fact check: I didn't personally (or casually) invite Chappelle to be interviewed for the doc. The producer responsible for celeb outreach officially asked him, more than once. I haven't seen or talked to him in about 8 years. Weird he told his joke that way. I also, obviously, didn't need Chapelle to talk about R. Kelly personally. I wanted him to talk about the two pieces of cultural criticism he produced about R. Kelly for the Chapelle show. I also have never in my life said the words "too hot for tv", because, bytch, that's not how I sound. There is nothing more radical—or necessary, than comedy that takes on power. An actual brave and brilliant comic can collapse regimes and shift culture in ways nothing and no one else can. I hope someone emerges... No, I wasn’t trying to just invite “anybody” that “would possibly say something bad about R Kelly” I asked our producer T. Farris to invite him on because [Dave Chappelle] already “said” this [link to Comedy Central's "Piss On You" YouTube video] This really isn’t rocket science... I a) care about Black girls b) don’t think abusing as many Black girls as R Kelly did happens without many, many people refusing to speak up about it. If that’s hilarious, then awesome, thanks for coming to my Netflix special.
