Kanye West's canned sitcom leaks
Footage from Kanye West's flop sitcom pilot has leaked online.
The rapper attempted to launch himself as a TV star back in 2008 when he shot a pilot episode of a comedy show for the HBO network.
The untitled series was soon shelved and the pilot was never aired,
but scenes have now hit the Internet after they were uploaded to
YouTube.com by West's co-star, actress Alison Quinn.
West appears to play himself in the clip, and Quinn's character
mocks him by continually calling him 'Kenny' instead of Kanye.
Seinfeld writer and Curb Your Enthusiasm director Larry Charles was
involved in the project, and at the time of making the show, he
revealed West introduced himself as "the black Larry David".
Speaking to MTV back in 2008, Charles said of the series, "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. So it's like a
Kanye and Curb show, it's kind of improvised about the situations
and stuff. It was really good, but again I think it was too
hardcore for HBO."