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‘This Is Crazy’: QuestLove, Internet Reacts To WCCO’s Archive Footage Of Prince At Age 11

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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Grammy Awards isn’t the only music-related news on people’s minds Monday: The internet can’t get enough of WCCO’s archive footage discovery of Prince when he was 11 years old.

The date was April 1970. Minneapolis Public Schools educators went on strike. WCCO recently restored the film to offer context to the educators strike that happened in the same district just last month. Inside one reel, a treasure lay hidden, untouched for 52 years.

Prince Nelson, the Minneapolis kid who would turn into an international music icon, was among some of the students interviewed for their thoughts on the strike. The rest, as they say, was history.

Following the report Sunday evening, the internet erupted in buzz about the video discovery. That included QuestLove, who just won Best Music Film at the 2022 Grammys.

“Wow Y’all. This is crazy,” he said in a tweet, linking to the WCCO story.

Wow Y’all. This is crazy. https://t.co/cEANG9JBiB

— Questo (@questlove) April 4, 2022

Coincidentally, there was April snow Sunday evening into Monday, because, indeed, “Sometimes It Snows In April.”

Check out more reactions below:

Yep, that’s Prince. Giving side eye since 1970 https://t.co/0VQyGm1uwd pic.twitter.com/4Rteh6gLL7

— J.A. Adande (@jadande) April 4, 2022

What we love about @WCCO‘s story of finding footage of Prince (aka Skipper) in the film archives is how excited the reporters got when sharing it. This is how we feel about historic footage every day. ❤🎞

— Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection (@BMAatUGA) April 4, 2022

OMG @wcco found footage of Prince while looking at archival footage of a teachers’ strike! That FACE — !! The jumping !!!

😭😭 “they should get extra money because they are working extra hours for us”https://t.co/wNzzbRh6GT pic.twitter.com/GnGwhohUHZ

— Marie Myung-Ok 명옥 Lee (@MarieMyungOkLee) April 4, 2022

This is such a great story about how footage of #Prince as an 11-year-old kid weighing in on the side of school teachers during a strike was uncovered by this local Minneapolis station @WCCO. What a treasure!

🧑‍🏫🎸🎶🎹🎵 https://t.co/PwoPRl63P7

— Donna Young 📰 (@DonnaYoungDC) April 4, 2022

RARE PRINCE FILM: @WCCO discovers never-seen-in-public footage of the world famous musician as a boy in Minneapolis- stored for 52 years in the TV station’s basement. https://t.co/C0URSM2wsO

— Patrick Kessler (@PatKessler) April 4, 2022

Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock joke about attacks at ‘secret’ show

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Chappelle — who was tackled by a knife-wielding assailant during a set at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday — and Rock, who made headlines for being slapped by Will Smith at this year’s Oscars, both performed a “secret” comedy show Thursday night in Los Angeles, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The tight-lipped show took place inside a small venue in the Comedy Store club and featured a star-studded audience consisting of Kim Kardashian, rappers Sean “Diddy” Combs and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), in addition to comedian Jeff Ross.

Fans paid $160 to see a cigarette-smoking Chappelle, who was billed as a last-minute, unnamed comedian. After raucous ovation, he was joined onstage by Rock about 10 minutes into his set as the duo made light of their viscous circumstances.

In response, Rock — who previously poked fun at Chappelle’s open-field tackle — took the opportunity to clap back at Smith for the now months-long drama he caused.

“At least you got smacked by someone of repute!” Chappelle said to Rock in front of the 70-seat crowd. “I got smacked by a homeless guy with leaves in his hair.”

Rock chuckled and quipped back: “I got smacked by the softest n—a that ever rapped,” reported the Hollywood Reporter.

Eventually the two moved on to make punchlines about other currents, such as Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s defamation court case and the looming uncertainty of Roe v. Wade.

Then Chappelle decided to take some shots at Combs.

“I am in the [place] where you sat in the car with Biggie Smalls as he died,” Chappelle said near his set’s end, eyeing Combs. “I hate this city.”

After Chappelle was leveled by since-arrested 23-year-old Isaiah Lee — who had his arm broken by the comic’s security team — celebrities and comedians across the nation rushed to the headliner’s defense.

“Somebody getting their ass whooped sends a message to other people, you know?” comedian Kevin Hart said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Thursday. “I think that’s 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.”

He continued, praising the fact that “Dave went back after that and finished doing the show.”

“Didn’t let that thing be a big thing. Quickly moved on from it and got back to doing comedy. And that’s what a professional does. Ultimately, you know, these moments of unprofessionalism should not break professionals.”

Amy Schumer Talks ‘Death Threats’ Over Oscars Joke, Said ‘The Misogyny Is Unbelievable’

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Amy Schumer already discussed how much backlash she got from fans over joking that A-lister Kirsten Dunst was a “seat filler” at the 2022 Academy Awards. Now she’s claiming she got “death threats” that required the LAPD and Secret Service to get involved.

“I got death threats,” she told Howard Stern while appearing on his radio show Thursday. “The Secret Service reached out to me.”

“They were so bad the Secret Service reached out, yeah, about that bit,” Schumer claimed. “I’m like, ‘I think you have the wrong number. This is Amy, not Will [Smith]. You must have the wrong number.’”

“Not that I want Will to get death threats, but the misogyny is unbelievable,” she continued.

“They were that serious and that many,” she said when Stern seemed skeptical. Schumer also said the LAPD contacted her on the matter.

“They were like, ‘How can you disrespect Kirsten Dunst like that,’” the “Life & Beth” alum said.

During the conversation, Schumer reiterated how all her jokes were vetted with the Hollywood stars prior to her telling them. In other words, Dunst was aware of the gag and happy to participate. 

“Hey I appreciate the love for Kirsten Dunst. I love her too! That was a choreographed bit she was in on,” Schumer wrote on her Instagram story while trying to explain herself to followers. “Wouldn’t disrespect that queen like that.”

The joke in question involved Schumer questioning the “Spider-Man” actress’ presence at the event.

“Here’s a seat filler,” Schumer said, explaining how some people are invited to big events just to fill empty seats for celebrities when they need to step out. “Honey, do you want to go to the bathroom?”

“Jesse, I loved you in ‘Power of the Dog,’” Schumer said, sitting down next to Dunst’s partner Jesse Plemons. 

Plemons replied, “You know, that was my wife, Amy.”

“You’re married to that seat filler?” Schumer asked.

The backlash online was merciless. That wasn’t the only time the “Trainwreck” star got chided for the jokes she made. Online followers accused Schumer of stealing a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio from Twitter.

The Daily Wire originally reported:

Eagle-eyed Twitter users noticed that one of Schumer’s jokes went viral on Twitter in December, leading them to question if the 40-year-old comedian had stolen it.

“Leonardo DiCaprio is so passionate about climate change because he wants to leave a better word for his girlfriends,” user Pjörk shared, making fun of how the actor dates much younger women.

The Oscars host told an incredibly similar joke at the Academy Awards when she said, “[DiCaprio] has done so much to fight climate change and leave behind a cleaner, greener planet for his girlfriends.”

Schumer addressed the controversy during an appearance on “Watch What Happens Live” this week.

“OK. Well, I would like to say, I haven’t personally been on Twitter,” the actress replied after being asked about stealing the joke. “I’ve had my assistant do it, just so I can remain alive and not kill myself. And also, that joke was written by Suli McCullough. But I thank you guys, always, for making sure that I don’t start thievery.”

She went on to say she had taken a lie detector test from Vanity Fair, which included a question about stealing jokes. “… [T]hey asked me, thank God, ‘Have you ever stolen a joke?’ and I said no, and it was ‘that’s true.’ So, everybody just chill. It’s crazy. I’m funny enough, I don’t need to steal s***.”

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