- [Dave Chappelle] I'm just afraid of being attacked.
It happens to the best of us.
Don't ever forget what happened
to that French actor.
You know who I'm talking bout?
Jussie Smollett.
He's a very French, very famous French actor.
(audience laughs)
Y'all never heard of Jussie Smollett?
(audience laughs)
Jussie Smollett is a actor from France.
(audience laughs)
And he became famous on a show called Empire.
One night,
he was in Chicago late at night
and was the victim,
(laughs) (audience laughs)
he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack.
You see,
Jussie Smollett is
(audience laughs)
gay and he is black.
Not just French.
(audience laughs)
Oh, it was a crazy story.
Apparently,
when he was walking down the street late at night
two white men came out of the shadows
with MAGA hats on and beat him up.
Tied a rope around his neck,
called him all kinds of n****
and put some bleach on him and ran off into the night.
(audience laughs)
The shit was like international news.
And everybody was furious,
especially in Hollywood.
It was all over everybody's Twitter feed
and Instagram page.
"Justice for Jussie!" and all this shit.
(audience laughs)
The whole country was up in arms.
Was talking about it all the time on the news.
And for some reason,
African Americans, we were like oddly quiet.
(audience laughs)
We was so quiet about the shit
that the gay community
started accusing African American community
of being homophobic for not supporting him.
What they didn't understand
is that we were supporting him
with our silence.
(audience laughs)
Because we understood
that this n**** was clearly lying.
(audience applauds)
None of these details added up at all.
He said he's walking down the street in Chicago
and white dudes come up to him and say,
"Hey man, aren't you that f*** n*** from Empire?"
What the f***?
Does that sound like how white people talk?
I know white people, they don't talk like that.
Are you that f*** n*** from Empire?
They would never say that.
It sounds like something
that I would say.
(audience laughs)
If you're a racist and homophobic
you're not even gonna know who this n*** is.
You can't watch Empire.
(audience laughs)
Black people never feel sorry for the police
but this time we even felt sorry for the police.
Can you imagine if you was a police veteran
taking this kids police report?
"Okay Mr. Smollett, please tell me what happened?
"Alright, two a.m. You left the house at two a.m.,
"it was minus 16 degrees.
(audience laughs) "Alright.
"You were walking? You were walking. Alright.
(audience laughs)
"And where were you going?
"Subway?"
"Sandwiches?"
(audience laughs)
"That's when the men approached you?
"Did you see them? Did you have any--
"Okay, what did they have on?
"MAGA hats?!
(audience laughs)
"MAGA hats on in Chicago?
"Excuse me one second Mr. Smollett
"Frank, come here for a second.
(audience laughs)
"Find out where Kanye West was last night"
(audience laughs)