Arsenio Hall

They were talking about somebody getting hurt.

Yep.

You know...

I got what they were saying, but I also got that this ain't the time to shut up and dribble.

Yeah.

You know, this is a time for an entertainer to use his vehicle in some way.

And I understood at that point, I thought maybe this is the night I book somebody like Farrakhan or-

I got to book somebody that can reach the brothers out in the street because I think we're about to tear up our own neighborhoods.

Yeah.

And obviously everybody thought that would distract from what I'm trying to do and what's going on and it would be bigger than the riots.

And I said, oh, yeah, yeah, no, I get that.

And so we got Tom Bradley.

Mm-hmm.

Sean Penn popped by, Sinbad, everybody.

And then I invited like 200 members of First AME, my church.

So I put my church, they signed waivers and everybody sat in the audience and we did the show that night, which a billion things are going through my mind.

Cause I also remember Tom Bradley, Sean Penn brought a guy with him and Paramount sent a lawyer out to say, the guy with Sean Penn, we can't talk to him.

So don't go over there.

And to this day, I said, okay, okay.

I had so much on my mind.