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Dave Chapelle Says Key & Peele 'Hurt His Feelings'

The comedy icon explains.

As the world prepares for Dave Chappelle’s return to stand up comedy, the comedian made news Monday after telling Gayle King how he feels about fellow funny men Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.

Chappelle has been critical of the comedy duo, and their show, Key & Peele, once joking that he has had to watch “Key & Peele do my show the last five f*cking years.”

King asked Chappelle about his past criticism, and he clarified. “No. I’m a fan of this show,” the comedian began. “I fought the network very hard so that those conventions could come to fruition,” he continued. “So, like the first episode I do, that Black-white supremacist sketch. And it’s like, ‘Well, that’s 10 minutes long. It should be five minutes long.’ Why should it be five minutes long? Like these types of conventions. I fought very hard.” Adding, “So when I watch Key & Peele and I see they’re doing a format that I created, and at the end of the show, it says, ‘Created by Key & Peele,’ that hurts my feelings.”

See Dave Chappelle, Stevie Wonder and others send off Michelle Obama on The Tonight Show with BET News, above.

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