Cohort Paul Mooney, Chappelle Team For BET Pilot Called "Judge Mooney" Comedian Paul Mooney — remembered as "The Chappelle Show's" resident psychic, "Negrodamus," is embarking on a proposed new series for Black Entertainment Television (BET) that has him re-enacting actual cases that have already been adjudicated. In his own special way, of course.
Interestingly, the man who rose to fame within comedy circles for co-writing some of the late Richard Pryor's most controversial material now declares he's putting a ban on the N-word in his comedy act. When he worked with Pryor "using the word, we were trying to defuse it, trying to desensitize people to it ... take the power out of it," explains Mooney.
"But the word is an equal-opportunity word now, with Latin kids and white kids saying it, and what it conjures up is all these demons. I watched the Michael Richards meltdown over and over, and I had an 'N'-exorcism."
Mooney adds, "And I don't care how you spell it, with an 'a' or an 'er,' if you saute or barbecue a goat, it's still a goat." Be forewarned, "Jesus Was Black and So Was Cleopatra" is laced with the "N" word, but Mooney says it was taped before the whole Richards incident opened his eyes. "I was married to the word then — now I'm divorced from the word."
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