Kevin Hart spoke about Dave Chappelle being attacked on stage as he chatted to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” guest host Mike Birbiglia on Thursday.
Chappelle was performing at the Hollywood Bowl during his set at the Netflix Is A Joke Festival on Tuesday night when a man, now confirmed as 23-year-old Isaiah Lee, ran up and tackled him to the floor.
Hart said as Birbiglia called the moment “scary”: “Somebody getting their ass whooped… not scary. It’s one of those things that need to happen though. “[It] sends a message to other people, you know? ‘I was thinking about doing that, but after seeing that, I don’t really want to do that.’” Hart went on, “I think that the world that we’re in right now.
There’s a lot of lines that have gotten blurred. And sometimes you got to take a couple steps backwards to take some steps forwards.
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