I’m saying that backstage, they are different people from the ones we think, both good and bad, and who those people are I cannot say, I just know from limited exposure to celebrity that reality as we think we see it is manufactured.

A lot of people you could never imagine being in the same room together will have dinner together or hang out and chill and it’s absolutely mind-blowing the first time you see it and realize what’s going on.

I’m not saying the performances of people like Chappelle aren’t sometimes vile and dangerous, it’s still a professional decision to “be that person” on stage, oftentimes it’s a well-planned professional decision involving agents, long-term plotlines and levels of social manipulation that we like to think we won’t fall for.