A Curb Your Enthusiasm-style sketch comedy pilot for HBO starring Kanye West has gone viral, in which the Yeezus rapper starred and produced Consequences of Found.
The footage is from 2008 and it’s a 5-minute clip of West visiting a child from the Make-A-Wish Foundation. One of the members of his team is with him, and neither she or the kid know who he is.
“I was on [the cover of] Time magazine," West is heard saying, to which his handler responds, "I just didn't think they'd put you on the cover," NY Post reports.
“You didn't have to THINK they'd put me on the cover because they DID," he continues. "It didn't have to be in your THOUGHTS, it was in your REALITY."
One of the Curb Your Enthusiasm producers, Larry Charles, ironically had a hand in the ill-fated show. He told MTV News at the time, however, “It was really good, but ... I think it was too hard-core for HBO.”
He added, “Also, HBO's management shifted. HBO doesn't have a good track record when it comes to black shows, and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also. I don't see a lot of shows about that experience at all.”
Charles continued "What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, 'I'm the black Larry David.' That's the first thing he said to me,” adding, "He's so much funnier than people realize. Even the whole being-full-of-himself stuff is a joke to him, and he likes to play that of being like, you know, Kanye. And he's kind of a brilliant guy actually."
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