Dave Chappelle Was Attacked Onstage

It’s now called Will Smithing someone

Michael B. Wharton
3 min readMay 4, 2022
Dave Chappelle and Jamie Foxx.

Will Smith opened Pandora’s Box with his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards a few weeks ago.

What we all feared has now become a reality. No matter what level of a comic it was, what used to be calm has now vanished forever, all thanks to a superstar who could not hold his mud.

Smith now telegraphs to every idiot out there that it’s okay to rush the stage.

During the Netflix comedy extravaganza, a man tackled Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl. The video shows Chappelle doing his thing, and then a guy blasts into the picture from the left of the stage and tackles Chappelle.

Jamie Foxx was watching from the wings while wearing a sheriff’s hat. Foxx rushes to his assistance along with event security. Chris Rock, who performed later in the same event, came onstage and joked, “Was that Will Smith?”

After the show, Chappelle thanked Foxx from the stage, saying, “Shout out to Jamie Foxx, by the way. Make some noise for Foxx. Whenever you’re in trouble, Jamie Foxx will show up in a sheriff’s hat. Turn his mic up.”

“Ni — a I thought that was part of the show; I didn’t know what the” Foxx said.

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Michael B. Wharton

Editor of Bold, Abundance and Stealing Fire. Has written for xlr8r and Role Reboot. Formerly NIH, Aol and Revolution Health. michael.wharton.writer@gmail.com