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Comedian Kevin Hart said on Thursday that the world needed to see Dave Chappelle’s attacker get his “a** whooped.”

During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Hart spoke about the incident in which Chappelle was attacked onstage by a person identified by police as Isaiah Lee while performing at the Hollywood Bowl this week.

“Somebody ran onstage and got their a** whooped….It’s one of those things that needed to happen,” Hart said while speaking to the show’s guest host, Mike Birbiglia.

“Do you want people to continue to think that they can cross that line and break the barrier of entertainer and [audience]?” Hart added. “Somebody getting their a** whipped sends a message out to other people that was like, ‘I was thinking about doing that, but seeing that, I don’t really want to do that.'”

The comments by Hart come shortly after Chappelle was attacked on stage, and photos after the incident showed the suspected attacker with a swollen and bruised face. Footage of the incident showed Lee running on stage toward the end of Chappelle’s show.

Chappelle told the audience shortly after the incident that he went backstage and ” stomped” Lee . Buzzfeed reporter Brianna Sacks shared a tweet after the show: “Just came out of the Hollywood Bowl where a man charged and tackled Dave Chappelle on stage and got his ass kicked by at least 10 people.”

Newsweek confirmed with the Los Angeles Police Department that Lee was in possession of a fake gun at the time.

In a video this week, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer said: “What should have been an evening of laughter at the Hollywood Bowl this past Tuesday night was suddenly interrupted when suspect Isaiah Lee allegedly charged onto the stage and tackled comedian Dave Chappelle.

“This alleged attack has got to have consequences, and this afternoon, my office has filed charges alleging battery, possession of a weapon with intent to assault and charges relating to interfering with a performance. My office takes protecting public safety extremely seriously and we are going to vigorously prosecute this case.”

Earlier this year, Will Smith made headlines after walking onto the stage and slapping Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, at the 2022 Academy Awards show.

Some on Twitter criticized those who have defended Smith’s action, saying that the slap led to Chappelle’s attack .

Newsweek reached out to Hart’s representatives for comment.

Black people have it hard. Black women have it harder. Black gay women have it the hardest. It’s tough being a triple minority in America, but especially in Russia.

After the news that Brittney Griner’s detaiment has been extended , and that Russia has denied all three of the U.S. Embassy’s attempts to visit her, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has announced that the league will work “ side by side ” with the WNBA in hopes of bringing her home.

“We’ve been in touch with the White House, the State Department, hostage negotiators, every level of government and also through the private sector as well,” Silver told ESPN . “Our No. 1 priority is her health and safety and making sure that she gets out of Russia.”

If you haven’t noticed, that whole “ staying quiet ” about her situation idea hasn’t worked, now it’s been time to get loud. And as we send “thoughts and prayers’’ her way, in hopes that more media attention and the added muscle that the NBA can flex will end this nightmare, it’s really hard to think about how Brittney Griner wouldn’t be in this situation if she wasn’t “Brittney Griner.” Sure, we can spend time discussing the wage gap or why America just doesn’t seem to love the WNBA as it should — which would increase salaries and keep players home — but if we want to have an honest conversation about this, it’s based on the fact that Griner is Black, tall, and a lesbian.

A 6-foot-9 Black woman with visible tattoos, dreadlocks, and a confident and cool masculine energy — that Putin wishes he had — who is open about the life she leads and who she loves, is the perfect “type” for a rich Russian dictator to make an example out of, all the while knowing that she isn’t the “type” that her country would do anything for to free.

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If this was Nancy Kerrigan, she would be home already. And If the genders were reversed, this would never happen to Kevin Love.

But, Carron, what does Kevin Love have to do with this?

Nothing.

However, his career is very similar to Griner’s, and it’s a great example of how race and gender play a role in how this story has been covered, and the extent of the resources that have been used and unused to free Griner. For instance, Love and Griner are almost the same height, as Griner is listed once inch taller than the 6-foot-8 Love. Both of them were McDonald’s All-Americans in high school, were a big reason why their team made it to the Final Four in college, made an impact in changing how the power forward/center positions are played, and they’ve both won championships in the NBA and WNBA.

Straight white men with that kind of basketball resume don’t find themselves locked in Russian jails for months over “weed oil.” Besides, the NBA is the one place on Earth where Love is a minority, given the small number of American-born white players that thrive in his league. A player that looks like Love and has his pedigree and resume would never be over in Russia playing because they’d get to spend their offseason as a multimillionaire working in the wine industry, as Love does as a partner with Chosen Family Wines .

This isn’t about Black or white, or man or woman. It’s about the privilege that gets bestowed upon certain people by society when you’re of a certain race, gender, or sexual identity. Kevin Love hasn’t done anything wrong here, but he is a great example of someone with a similar resume to Griner’s that would never be in the same situation she’s in. And while it’s great that the NBA, WNBA, and other government officials are working to free Griner, we need to also realize that this is a great opportunity to change things here in America so that the next Brittney Griner never has to play in Russia again.

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Kevin Morby stays busy. When I met the singer-songwriter in fall 2020 , just after the release of his sixth album, Sundowner , he was riding the high of a trip to Memphis to write new songs that he would eventually shape into his next project, This Is a Photograph (out now). The new record carries over some major themes from Sundowner — and really, much of Morby’s solo career before that, which he began in 2013 after playing in the bands Woods and Babies. Photograph is another album inspired by a specific place (Memphis) after Morby plumbed his stints in New York City for 2016’s Singing Saw , Los Angeles for 2017’s City Music , and his current home of Kansas City for Sundowner . (He said 2019’s Oh My God is set in the heavens because of the amount of time he was spending on airplanes on tour.)

But This Is a Photograph is also a shift for Morby. Unlike New York, L.A., or Kansas City, he’s never actually lived in Memphis. He was first drawn to the city years ago for its deep musical history and eventually felt “some sort of siren going off inside of me that’s like, You got to explore this place. ” The pandemic gave him the time and space to do that. Though Photograph is another of Morby’s album’s fascinated with death — from that of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley’s to a scare with his own father that prompted the title track — it’s also the 34-year-old songwriter’s most life-affirming record. “I always describe Memphis, especially through the pandemic, as a resilient city,” Morby tells me on a video call. “There’s a bravery there that I was really feeling.” On top of it all, Photograph features Morby’s richest songwriting — with songs inspired by not only the city he visited but the 1970 film Five Easy Pieces , some of his favorite celebrities, and his girlfriend, Waxahatchee performer Katie Crutchfield. Morby spoke to Vulture about some of the standout lyrics that make up the new record.

“This Is a Photograph”

The year that you were born The year that you are now

This song was inspired by a photo you found of your dad after a health scare. Tell me about specifically putting yourself in his shoes at that moment in the photo. Wait, my dad would be the same age that I am right now.

There was something to the fact that when my dad fell ill earlier that evening, I was kind of the adult in the room. I was in the role that he’s lived my whole life — my whole life I’ve been falling down and he’s been picking me back up. It felt like this very cinematic, sort of serendipitous moment. It’s almost like this passing the torch: Okay, you can help me out now.

Your recent albums have touched on death a lot, and this album mentions death, but that song twists it into being really life-affirming. This is going to be a song that I’m going to take out into the world. One of my favorite things about being alive is performing music for people, and I’ll get to sing this lyric. “This is what I’ll miss about being alive.” And it’ll be true in the moment.

“A Random Act of Kindness”

Sun came up

That line gets repeated and builds to being shouted, which felt like a big shift after the more restrained Sundowner . Why was that right for this song?

What was that like, vocally, to record? This is really fun. I was like, I can’t wait to do this live every night. It might destroy my voice, but it’ll be fun for a while.

“Bittersweet, TN”

Goddamn, you got old, you got upset, you got sick The living took forever, but the dying came quick And oh, just to think you were a little kid Wondering what you’d be when you got big

On that third line, I heard “Jess,” so in my mind, I was thinking about the late singer-songwriter Jessi Zazu, who you sang about on Sundowner . Then I read through the lyrics, and I saw that it was just instead. Who are you singing about? Erin Rae, who sings on this song and is from Nashville and knows of Jessi, heard the same thing. To be honest with you, the song is about no one in particular. It’s a sort of universal song of someone who gets diagnosed with something terminal or who’s suddenly very sick or suddenly is in an accident where they’re not going to make it. It’s just about the sudden and finite nature of death — of life seeming very long, but then suddenly you’re hit with some bad news. There’s definitely an element of Jessi in that song, and there’s an element of — I was thinking of a friend’s stepfather who I knew growing up, and how very quickly he was gone. It’s a song for a lot of people and no one in particular, but a lot of people were going through my mind at that time.

“A Coat of Butterflies”

And if you wanna settle down, then you came to the right town To close your big brown eyes and wear a coat of butterflies But if you wanna live forever, jump in deep with the mysteries sweet Wade into the water, close your eyes, boy, and sing “Want a whole lot of love”

Those lines, to me, are the whole song coming together as this reflection on Jeff Buckley in Memphis. What was it about Buckley that interested you? I’m going to ditch this thing. Like, What is this sprawling thing I’m making? Would Jeff Buckley approve of this? I never wrestled with a song as much as I did with this one. And I’m so happy with how it ended up turning out.

In 2019, I did an interview with Vice . They had this series where they would have an artist pick a classic record they’d never heard, and we’ll listen to it and interview about it in real time. And I picked Jeff Buckley’s Grace . He’s someone I’d always been interested in. I knew he had this eerie death. I thought it was suicide. I thought he was from the South. But in doing this interview, the writer, he filled me in on everything, and it just blew my mind. At this point, I had gone to Memphis with Katie, and I knew that I wanted to go there. So it was another arrow pointing toward Memphis. And I just felt like, Oh, wow, I need to go there. I really related to his story because he wasn’t a Memphian. He’s from California. And he had done time in New York, he had done time in L.A. And he had gone to Memphis in search of something. I felt like from everything I was reading about him, he was trying to touch on some sacred ground, some American touchstone, in the same way that I was trying to. There were also these little things about him, where I read that he was always frustrated by how he was way more popular overseas than he was in America, and I really relate to that, or certainly did earlier in my career. I just felt, from what I’m gathering, that he was here for a very similar reason. Then, him trying to get so close to the source, in doing that he ended up tragically and accidentally dying .

When I was in Memphis, I was following this bread-crumb trail and scouring Reddit threads and finding out where he lived and what he was doing during his last days. I had read all these peculiar things about how he was trying to buy a house that wasn’t for sale, and he was trying to get a job at the Memphis Zoo because he loved the butterfly garden. He was trying to just get a volunteer shift there despite the fact that he had money and was famous. And I really related to all of those sentiments — there was some sense that he had hit his 30s and he was trying to settle down in some way. And it was in my 30s that I moved back to Kansas and started to settle down. When I found his house, I was perplexed. I always thought that he would’ve lived in this big southern Victorian mansion or something, but his house kind of looked the same as the house that I lived in Kansas. And I was really getting into his music. I was jogging along the river every morning and listening to his music, and I found it very moving.

There’s been a sense of me going to Memphis and wanting to get close to the source and being afraid, almost like I don’t want to end up somehow dying here. I don’t want to get so close to the source that it kills me. But the other day, I went for a jog. The point where he entered the river became this place that I would go to frequently in Memphis. It’s this beautiful spot in the river; I totally understand why he’d want to take a swim there. I went down there the other day, and there were two butterflies right at the entry. I just have to believe that that’s Jeff Buckley’s way. I felt proud of the song, and perhaps he was giving me his blessing. I’m glad that I saw the song through.

“Five Easy Pieces”

My tears in the cum rag, your hands on my jeans A song in my mouth that you won’t ever let me sing

How do you know when a line like “My tears in the cum rag” works? Like, “Yeah, we’re putting that to tape”? the film, and that’s the last song I wrote for the record. It’s probably the song that’s most out of theme with the rest of the album. It’s just a movie I watched one day, it was raining outside and I threw on a movie. I’d seen it before, but not in like a decade. And I started writing this song. The dynamic between the two characters is he’s so awful to her. Karen Black just thinks the world of him and is always trying to impress him. She’s trying to sing him songs, and he tells her she has a bad voice. It’s so brutal to watch, but it’s still a beautiful movie. When I write a lyric like “My tears in the cum rag,” this imagery comes to mind of Karen Black’s character, perhaps at some point he’s made her upset and he’s made her cry. And she reaches for a rag to dry her tears, and she realizes it’s this disgusting, filthy cum rag of his. It just paints a vivid picture of a tumultuous relationship.

It’s one of those things that you come up with and you’re like, I’ll probably get rid of that because how on earth am I going to keep that in the song? But then you’re in the studio and you start thinking, Well, what am I going to replace it with? In the kitchen rag? And you’re like, No, I’ve got to be brave about this. It just feels right. When we were adding the orchestra, Oliver Hill, my bandmate, he got his mom and his sister to play strings. They were coming in, and I was like, “We have to mute the vocals for this. I can’t have them listening to this verse over and over. I can’t subject them to that.” Then Oliver’s mom was like, “I can handle it, don’t worry about it.” So I thought that was a good sign. I played a private gig in San Francisco recently, and the promoter’s kids were there, and I changed the lyric.

I know you’ve written songs from a female perspective before, too. What is that like for you? City Music was from this sort of make-believe female character. As a songwriter, I like to reverse perspectives. Gender is something that’s very fun for me to think of from the other person’s perspective, the one that is not me. Perhaps a lot of people would write that song from the perspective of the male protagonist, being a male songwriter. But I felt like I had more sympathy for her story and wanted to tell it from her perspective because the whole movie is his perspective. And Karen Black, I’m such a fan of hers. Rest in peace. I think the way she portrays that character is so powerful.

“Stop Before I Cry”

Baby if we part Katie if I hide Then I can live in your songs forever And you can live in mine

I got Oh My God on vinyl recently, and it has the lyrics real big, and I didn’t notice that Katie’s name is in the background of “Congratulations.”

Okay. I was thinking about that, and then she’s singing on the last album, and now there’s this song that’s super-direct. Can you walk me through your thoughts on writing about your relationship like that? Saint Cloud , there were a few songs where she’s singing about being in a relationship with another songwriter, and I would see it get picked up in the press, and my name was thrown around. There’s a lot happening with this record, like the “cum rag” line, where I just wanted to have no filter. When I first wrote that song, I wasn’t saying “Katie,” I was saying “baby,” and I was doing that to disguise her. But I’m like, There’s photos of us in bed kissing in magazines , and we’re on social media constantly. I’m going to call it for what it is. And it came out naturally in the studio. I think she has a pretty name, and I wanted to make no mistake who the song is about.

Listening back to it now, it makes me think about other songs that have people’s names in them. I’ve always figured, Oh, that name is to cover up for another name. When Tom Petty sings about Angela, maybe he’s singing about another person but he just calls her Angela to keep her anonymity. But with this, I’m like, Maybe a lot of these people, it’s a direct song as well. And maybe you can hear this song 20 years from now and have no context of our relationship and think, Who’s Katie? or something, who knows. But I like it. It’s a song for Katie. So I want her to be able to listen to it and think, This is Kevin singing directly to me.

What was it like showing the song to her?

“Goodbye to Good Times”

When my father was a young man, he got Mickey Mantle’s autograph And with the M shaped like the moon, he would contemplate the stars

This part in the beginning punctuates the fascination with celebrity throughout the song, and I really like “contemplate the stars” as a double entendre. But I wanted to broaden this a bit. What was it about the four people who get mentioned in this song — Mickey Mantle, Tina Turner, Otis Redding, and Diane Lane — specifically? M ’s — he makes them look like moons. I love that line as well. Sam Cohen and I share the same brain, and he’s one of the only people that I’m comfortable with ever giving me feedback on lyrics. The original lyric was “With the M shaped like the moon, it made me contemplate the moon.” He was like, “You should change it to stars. You’re singing about stars.”

Then there’s Tina Turner . That was a very literal one, where I asked my mom one day, “When you were this age, who was inspiring you in terms of fashion, or who were you listening to?” Otis Redding, that’s direct — I was in Memphis, and he was everywhere, and he died tragically young in an airplane accident. Then Diane Lane , she’s the most random one. I was watching every movie during the pandemic, and I’d watched The Outsiders , which is one of my favorite books and movies growing up. I hadn’t watched it in years, and she’s such an iconic figure in this movie. She’s also in Rumble Fish , and she’s in black-and-white. She’s one of those people that I was like, Is she still alive? And I looked her up, and she’s only in her 50s, and she’s still killing it. She is one of these people from a certain generation where she made it in these iconic movies that seemed so far in the past, that it’s kind of unbelievable that she’s still around. I was thinking a lot about River Phoenix, too, and I almost put his name in there as someone who passed away young. But I think it’s important also to tell those stories of, sometimes the good survive. Sometimes these people who are such icons, they’re still out there, and that’s a beautiful thing.

That song made me think about the influence of Anthony Bourdain on Sundowner . We’ve been talking about Jeff Buckley and Karen Black and all these celebrities. It’s something that I find striking, and vulnerable, almost, to be talking about looking up to these celebrities, or relating to them, or finding them important. It’s something that everyone does, but there aren’t songs about it.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

KEVIN McCarthy skirted questions today about his January 6 phone call with Donald Trump as the Capitol riot was underway.

The House Minority Leader insisted his conversations with the former president were a personal and private matter and that Trump offered to help calm the mob.

During an interview on Fox News on Sunday, McCarthy said Trump was not aware of what was going on at the Capitol when he first reached him on the phone.

He said: “I was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on.

“He didn’t see it. What he ended the call with saying was telling me he’ll put something out to make sure to stop this.

“And that’s what he did. He put a video out later.”

My conversations with the president are my conversations with the president

Kevin McCarthy, House Minority leader

Host Chris Wallace pointed out the video Trump posted was “quite a lot later,” and he said it “was a pretty weak video.”

In this clip, the then-president urged the rioters to “go home,” saying “we love you. You’re very special.”

In February, a Republican congresswoman, Jaime Herrera Beutler, said McCarthy told her what Trump said on a call as the riot progressed.

Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for his conduct surrounding the deadly riot, released a statement.

It said: “When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was Antifa that had breached the Capitol.

“McCarthy refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters.

“That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said: ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'”

This account contradicted Trump’s claim that he took immediate action to stop an attack

But when asked about the call, McCarthy said: “My conversations with the president are my conversations with the president.

“I engaged in the idea of making sure we could stop what was going on inside the Capitol at that moment in time.

“The president said he would help.”

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He added Trump “should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding”.

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