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LOS ANGELES — (AP) — A man charged in an on-stage attack of comedian Dave Chappelle has now also been charged with the attempted murder of a roommate months earlier, authorities said Thursday. The publicity that followed the Chappelle incident helped lead to Lee's identification and arrest in the previous attack, prosecutors said. A message left with the county public defender's office seeking comment from an attorney for Lee was not immediately returned. Lee was arrested May 3 after allegedly rushing the stage and tackling Chappelle during his stand-up set at the Hollywood Bowl. Chappelle was not hurt, and finished the show that was part of the “Netflix Is a Joke” comedy festival.

What better way to lighten the mood than to tell a joke?

Jesse Williams vowed not to be discouraged after leaked video and images of his onstage nude scene in the Broadway play “Take Me Out” were posted online.

George Gascón has defended his decision not to pursue a felony charge, saying the attacker had a folding knife on him but didn't use it. Gascón also says he will work on safety at performance venues.

Dave Chappelle Attacked FILE - Dave Chappelle appears during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Oct. 30, 2021, in Cleveland. Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance. (AP Photo/David Richard, File) (David Richard)LOS ANGELES — (AP) — A man charged in an attack on comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl pleaded not guilty Friday to four misdemeanors. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office determined that he had not committed any felonies and referred the case to the LA city attorney's office, which charged him with the four misdemeanors.

The man charged in an attack on comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl has pleaded not guilty to four misdemeanors.

The Gold State Coach at the Royal Mews in Buckingham Palace is being prepared ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A Trooping the Colour will kick off four days of celebrations for the jubilee, including tea parties, a pop concert and people's parade through central London.

Hart had some explaining to do on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

The 23-year-old suspect, identified as Isaiah Lee, was arrested and accused of assault with a deadly weapon.

Isaiah Lee, 23, is accused of tackling the comedian during his Tuesday night show and pointing a weapon at him.

Dave Chappelle Attacked FILE - Dave Chappelle appears during the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Oct. 30, 2021, in Cleveland. Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance. “After reviewing the evidence, prosecutors determined that while criminal conduct occurred, the evidence as presented did not constitute felony conduct,” the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in a statement. The case has been referred to the Los Angeles city attorney's office, which prosecutes misdemeanors within the city.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say the man arrested on suspicion of tackling comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl will not be charged with any felonies.

Jamie Foxx and Busta Rhymes are getting their flowers on social media after allegedly giving a beatdown to the man who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage while the comedian was performing on Monday at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Heard took the stand for the first time Wednesday afternoon in the now four-week trial.

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked by an armed man as he performed at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. Lilia Luciano has more details.

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with an on-stage attack at a Dave Chappelle show. After the attack, Chris Rock joined Chappelle on stage.

23-year-old Isaiah Lee has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.

InstagramThe man who allegedly rushed the stage and attacked comedian Dave Chappelle as he performed Tuesday night at the Hollywood Bowl is an aspiring rapper who recorded a song in 2020 titled “Dave Chappell.”Isaiah Arias Lee, who performs under the name “NoName_Trapper,” was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, according to booking records. Lee, 23, was carrying a replica gun with a knife hidden inside, police said. After Chappelle’s security team subdued Lee—with the assistan

The attacker tackled Chappelle on stage during the comedy show, before being overpowered by security and taken away in an ambulance.

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Security guards chased and overpowered the attacker, and Chappelle was able to continue his performance while the man was taken away in an ambulance. LAPD media relations made no official announcement of an arrest in the hours after the attack, and did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for details. Chappelle was performing his standup routine at the amphitheater as part of the “Netflix Is a Joke” festival when the man rushed on stage and tackled him. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night and a man was later arrested.

While performing at the Hollywood Bowl, Dave Chappelle was tackled by a man who rushed onstage.

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked while performing on stage in Los Angeles.

The incident comes months after Chappelle faced controversy over his 2021 Netflix special The Closer, in which he makes jokes about transgender women.

U.S. stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle on Tuesday was attacked by an audience member during a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

The controversial comic laughed off the incident after being tackled, and video appeared to show the person who charged him being beaten onstage.

Dave Chappelle's 2021 Netflix special "The Closer" was criticized for the comic's transphobic statements.

Comedian Jon Stewart says speculation about the future of comedy amid increased audience cultural sensitivity is ignoring a true and enduring threat: authoritarian governments around the world.

The recent mass shooting in California's capital city has shaken a downtown core that's been beset by violence and decades of economic struggles.

A new study says that LGBTQ representation on TV series has grown along with the footprint of streaming services.

Other residents of Yellow Springs, Ohio, also complained, and the town decided to pull the affordable housing component of the development.

Comedian, talk show host and political influencer Jon Stewart has been named the 23rd recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award for lifetime achievement in comedy.

Cedric The Entertainer cautions Dave Chappelle that his response to the scrutiny he’s facing for controversial LGBTQ comments he made during his latest Netflix standup […]

Leave it to Mel Brooks to blurb his own memoir.

Jussie Smollett is going on trial this week, accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, homophobic attack downtown Chicago nearly three years ago.

16-year-old student Andrew Wilson told Insider that Chappelle arrived with documentary film cameras and told students they "can't silence" him.

Comedian Dave Chappelle made a surprise visit to his alma mater, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, on Tuesday.

Retirees are ruling the roost in this year's Grammy nominations in the record of the year category.

Two transgender former workers who criticized comments comedian Dave Chappelle made on his special "The Closer" are dropping labor complaints.

Two transgender former workers who criticized comments comedian Dave Chappelle made on his special "The Closer" are dropping labor complaints.

Two former Netflix employees who criticized anti-transgender comments on comedian Dave Chappelle's TV special are dropping labor complaints and one has resigned from the company.

LOS ANGELES — (AP) — Two former Netflix employees who criticized anti-transgender comments on Dave Chappelle’s TV special are dropping labor complaints and one has resigned from the company, it was announced Monday. Terra Field, a senior software engineer who is trans, announced that Field had voluntarily resigned as of Sunday. "This isn't how I thought things would end, but I'm relieved to have closure," Field said in a resignation letter posted online. About 30 Netflix workers staged a an Oct. 20 walkout and joined a rally at Netflix offices in Los Angeles. Field and B. Pagels-Minor, a game launch operations program manager who also is trans, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.

Two former Netflix employees who raised concerns about anti-transgender comments on Dave Chappelle’s TV special are dropping labor complaints and one has resigned from the company.

In his latest special, the comedian’s grace fails him—not because of whom he offers it to, but because of whom he withholds it from.

A high school canceled a fundraiser with Dave Chappelle after students threatened to stage a walkout because they were uncomfortable with remarks he made.

YouTubeIn recent days, Kanye West—or “Ye,” as he wishes to be called now—has been making the rounds with Larry Hoover Jr., the activist son of Larry Hoover, a Chicago gangland figure. Hoover is currently serving a life sentence at a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, for ordering a 1973 murder and then, according to feds, running a criminal enterprise from behind bars. Hoover Jr., who appears on Ye’s recent album Donda, is pleading for a sentence break for his father under the First Step Act

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The comedian has been facing backlash regarding his most recent Netflix special, which released three weeks ago.

A recent study reporting that some lesbians feel pressured into having sex with transgender women, who are biological males, has divided feminists and the gay and transgender community over whether their sexual preferences amount to transphobia.

"To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anybody's demands," Chappelle said.

Chappelle is promoting his upcoming documentary, which he says has been blocked by the film industry due to the controversy around his Netflix special.

An unapologetic Dave Chappelle says he has conditions for anyone who wants to meet with him, including having watched all of his The Closer special, which has come under fire for transphobic material.

The controversy over the comedian’s latest special is most telling not for its lessons on cancel culture or comedy but as a window on the streaming platform’s approach to so-called content.

Netflix employees staged a walkout over his latest comedy special, "The Closer."

Netflix employees staged a walkout over his latest comedy special, "The Closer."

"Urinetown" at City Repertory Theatre, domestic violence, the vanished Student Pledge Against Gun Violence, and a little touch of Caligula.

Jon Stewart is putting on his public relations cap in defense of longtime friend, comedian Dave Chappelle, who Stewart is adamant was not trying to be divisive in his latest comedy special, "The Closer."

He has always understood the risk, in riffing on the racial absurdities of American culture, of reinforcing rather than undermining them. The absence of concern of this kind about the impact of “The Closer” is striking.

Netflix Chappelle Protest People protest outside the Netflix building on Vine Street in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Critics and supporters of Dave Chappelle's Netflix special and its anti-transgender comments gathered outside the company's offices Wednesday. Some were willing to identify themselves as Netflix employees, but all declined to provide their names. Leia Figueroa, a student from Los Angeles, doesn't work at Netflix but said she wanted to back the walkout. Opposite them were those carrying signs that included “Black Trans Lives Matter” and “Transphobia is not Funny."

Actor Colton Haynes thanked protesters for the "marathon that you're having to run just to ensure that there's a safe workplace, and safe content and safe speech."

The group is demanding Netflix remove the David Chappelle special.

Multiple stars including Jameela Jamil and Jonathan Van Ness also supported the walkouts calling for better trans content on the platform.

Netflix Chappelle Protest People protest outside the Netflix building on Vine Street in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Critics and supporters of Dave Chappelle's Netflix special and its anti-transgender comments gathered outside the company's offices Wednesday. Some were willing to identify themselves as Netflix employees, but all declined to provide their names. Leia Figueroa, a student from Los Angeles, doesn't work at Netflix but said she wanted to back the walkout. Opposite them were those carrying signs that included “Black Trans Lives Matter” and “Transphobia is not Funny."

Netflix employees walked out Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s special and its anti-transgender comments.

Netflix has posted sharply higher third-quarter earnings thanks to a stronger slate of titles.

MTV says its Europe Music Awards will air next month in Hungary.

Netflix says it has fired an employee for disclosing confidential financial information about the Dave Chappelle comedy special “The Closer,” which some have condemned as being transphobic.

A top Netflix executive says Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer” doesn’t cross “the line on hate” and will remain on the streaming service.

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Most people know him for “I Believe I Can Fly,” the 1996 sing-along hit that became an inspirational anthem played at school graduations, weddings and advertisements.

Stevie Wonder and Common will perform together for the seventh Stand Up To Cancer telethon.

Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Amy Schumer are in a star-studded group of comedians to perform for one night only at Madison Square Garden to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

In Questlove's documentary “Summer of Soul” a musical flood, too long dammed up, is finally released.

Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival premiere of a new Dave Chappelle documentary.

The 20th Tribeca Festival is aiming to not just rebuild itself after a 2020 edition was largely scuttled by the pandemic, but to help revitalize its hometown.

Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died.

Elon Musk moved a cryptocurrency's value and TV ratings with his “Saturday Night Live” appearance.

NEW YORK – When Eddie Murphy made the original “Coming to America,” he was, almost indisputably, the funniest man in America. “Now I take nothing for granted and appreciate everything.”Thirty-three years after “Coming to America,” Murphy and Hall have returned to Zamunda. At the barbershop, where Murphy and Hall also reprise their characters, the conversation bounces from Teslas to transgender people. Before making “Black Panther,” Murphy has said Ryan Coogler approached him about a “Coming to America” sequel. Ruth E. Carter designed the costumes of both “Black Panther” and “Coming 2 America.” Both were shot in Atlanta.

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, Dave Chappelle arrives at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor presented to Dave Chappelle, in Washington. Chappelle tested positive for the coronavirus just before his comedy show scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 21, forcing his upcoming appearances to be canceled, a spokeswoman said. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)AUSTIN, Texas – Dave Chappelle tested positive for the coronavirus just before his comedy show scheduled for Thursday, forcing his upcoming appearances to be canceled, a spokeswoman said. Those shows have been canceled and Chappelle is quarantining, his representative Carla Sims said in a statement. He apologized on Instagram to followers for the canceled shows, saying they'd be rescheduled.

Chappelle is set to buy a former fire station near his Ohio hometown with plans to turn it into a comedy club. Fire Station in Yellow Springs will be sold to the 47-year-old actors company and turned into a club that will seat 140 people. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – Comedian Dave Chappelle is set to buy a former fire station near his Ohio hometown with plans to turn it into a comedy club. Chappelle's ties to Ohio go back to his father, who graduated from Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, and later was a professor there. In June, Chappelle held a private, outdoor stand-up and social commentary performance to a socially distant and masked audience in Yellow Springs.

NEW YORK – “The Daily Show” host and comedian Trevor Noah has been tapped to host the 2021 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy made the announcement hours before the nominees for the upcoming show are revealed. It would mark Noah's first time hosting the Grammys, which will be held Jan. 31. Earlier this year, Noah competed for his first Grammy Award: The 36-year-old Emmy winner was nominated for best comedy album with “Son of Patricia," but lost to Dave Chappelle. See you at the 63rd GRAMMYs!”Alicia Keys was the most recent Grammys host.

He even offered a throwback to one of his infamous '90s-era lines, calling President Donald Trump a “Looooosseer!” to laughs and applause. Carrey and Rudolph each made an L out of their hands and held them to their foreheads and were joined by Alec Baldwin, reprising his role as Trump. Chappelle hosted “SNL” in November 2016 in its first episode after Trump’s election, pointedly critiquing the surprise over the result. “You know, I didn't know Donald Trump was going to win the election,” Chapelle said four years ago. “SNL” has regularly lampooned Trump and his presidency in recent years, enlisting Baldwin to play the commander in chief.

NEW YORK An angry and emotional Dave Chappelle spoke on the killing of George Floyd in a surprise Netflix special, saying America was being punished for its mistreatment of black men. The special was released Thursday and is streaming free on Netflixs comedy YouTube channel. It was taken from a show at an outdoor pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with about 100 attendees on June 6. Chappelle called his special 8:46 in part after the length of time the officer was on top of the handcuffed Floyd. When I watched that tape, I understood this man knew he was going to die, said the comedian.