Comedian Charleston White, now Isay comedian loosely, all right, because DL Hughley said don't embarrass the craft by calling it comedy. So I'm saying comedian because that's what the headline says, all right? Charleston White got into a scuffle at a performance. [00:00:19] I wanna analyze this thoughtfully, okay? So I'm going to show you the video, and then we'll get into it. Here it is. >> Speaker 2: Give a damn by getting boomed. I didn't already got paid. You paid to see me. You paid to see me. Lakers, jazz, and worn ain't. [00:00:34] Pull out some money, though. Pull out some money, though. Pull out some money, though. Pull out the money. Pull out the money. I hit you on your goddamn head. Pull out the money. I hit your goddamn head. Hit with your goddamn head. [00:01:08] >> Speaker 1: All right, I got more video. Put up the picture full mass. When this first started, when I'm looking at it, I'm thinking, okay, is this a skit? Once I realize it's not a skit, I'm asking another question. Where's the security, right? [00:01:23] Typically, you have a protocol for something like this. You clearly see there's a real engagement happening. It is about to turn violent. The man on stage has picked up a weapon, something to protect himself or to launch an offensive attack, right? [00:01:40] So according to complex, Charleston White performed in Crockett, Texas on Saturday night as part of a Christmas-themed event he was booked for. During a set, White allegedly questioned the validity of the 2020 NBA Finals, where the Los Angeles Lakers, [00:01:58] two Lakers fans in the audience did not seem to take kindly to White's commentary. White claimed that the man, who was wearing a Kobe Bryant jersey, asked to come up on stage. He explained that he feared for his life at that moment, [00:02:16] which he says caused him to hit him with the item you see on camera. So following the incident, White would joke about pressing charges. So here's what he said afterwards. >> Speaker 4: Boy, I'm pressing charges. [00:02:33] Man, I'm pressing charges. And then I'm taking my disability papers to the prosecutor's office so we can enhance the charges cuz you jumped on a disabled person, a legally blind man. Now your attorney can go get the pictures all they want to in videos of me [00:02:52] driving during this year. He legally blind and you jumped on a disabled man. Boy, your charges gonna be enhanced. And he a community activist and he a youth advocate. Boy, your ass gonna be in trouble. [00:03:08] And boy, guess what? I'm gonna take this eye out. When it's time to come testify, I'm gonna feel my way around the courtroom. Yeah, I'm gonna feel my way around the courtroom when it's up. They go how the Bible out. When you put your hand on the Bible, yeah, I'm gonna do this. [00:03:26] [LAUGH] I can't see this, sir, the Bible right here. Okay, yeah, you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, there's nothing but ship your truth, so help you God? Yeah, I do. When I get there, they go have a microphone right there to talk. [00:03:43] I'm gonna be talking like this like I'm talking on the microphone, sir, the microphone right here. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, I got it. Can you point him out? Can you spot him out? I'm gonna be able to see then with that. Can you see him? Yeah, that's him right there. [00:03:59] I thought you couldn't see. That's the same silhouette. Yeah, that's the same silhouette. I'll never forget that silhouette. [LAUGH] >> Speaker 1: The irony of his video is that, for me personally, that's the funniest he's ever been to me. [00:04:20] That was actually funny. So he's making light up. And I said, he's gonna press charges. He was able to create a narration that provided some levity to the situation. But you gotta imagine that's a scary scene. [00:04:36] Regardless of how it happened, you are in a scary situation at the end of that. Now, I don't condone anybody jumping on a stage. Now, if somebody throws a potted plant at know cause and effect can happen. [00:04:55] So, Ricky, how do you see this? >> Speaker 5: Yeah, you can't be throwing the pancettas because there's a shortage on them. And our senior citizen community was more upset about that. Dr. Richie, your grandmother and my grandmother do not play- >> Speaker 1: That's right. [00:05:10] >> Speaker 5: About those pansettas. And the chair thing only worked in the state of Alabama. Yeah, that was Texas. [LAUGH] Me personally, as a comedian, [00:05:26] I'm just not gonna antagonize anybody like that. Even if I get somebody drunk, Dr. Richard, I get them out by saying, you come on over here. Let me get you back here to the dressroom so I could take some pictures with you. Make them feel like they're getting something special. But really what I'm doing is getting them out the audience so [00:05:44] I could finish my performance. And I go back to the dress room and take a picture or two with them and everybody's happy at the end of the night. I fear for his safety. Having that many enemies and going all over the country and you into it with rappers and stuff. [00:06:00] I understand some of the things that he's trying to communicate and say about some of the negative things that's going on in the community. But I don't know if I would take that approach because I think I love my family enough not to have my family show up at my funeral. [00:06:17] Because that right there will get you to an early grave because the world is a bad place. That's dangerous. >> Speaker 5: Yeah, like I said at the end of that, that's a scary situation to be in. And once you throw a pot at plant special point set of man. [00:06:35] >> Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't notice, I'm like, man, wow, that's a lot.