Bamboozled

“Now, speaking of Spike Lee, imagine my surprise when a film that I’m in, Bamboozled, made Criterion status. Words will never describe the entire experience of us shooting this. Spike Lee explained to me the premise of Bamboozled. Now, mind you, it’s 1999, and this is one of the cases in which a satire is so over the top, exaggerated. And now that it’s 25 years later, everything in this movie has happened. Spike was so ahead of time that time eventually caught up to him.”

“Bamboozled, probably the best movie about television ever made.”

“Spike Lee, Bamboozled. Spike Lee, one of my personal heroes... He's the reason I went to film school because he was doing press for Do the Right Thing in 1989. I created Chappelle's Show with Dave and Spike did a sketch one time and in the middle of the take my cell phone started ringing. And Spike charged me 20 bucks. He has a thing on his set. If a cell phone goes off, you pay the director 20 bucks. I was technically probably the director on the sketch, but I paid him 20 bucks 'cause he's...”

“Bamboozled you know the problem of the black the image of the black in the Western World... Blackface and Minstrelsy is a part of that agenda you know and I think Professor Spike Lee who's my professor at Tisch I think he really broke open a conversation and managed to help the whole world understand the damage those images did through this film and you know Damon Wayans Miss Jada Pinkett Smith Tommy Davidson...”

“Spike Lee, Bamboozled. Saw this movie before I worked in Hollywood. Loved it. Terrified me. Having worked in Hollywood for more than 20 years, it’s scary how accurate and prescient it is. If you want to work in Hollywood, everybody should see this movie before doing so. Also annoyingly hard to find, so get the DVD.”