Martin Scorsese's Favorite Movies: 57 Films the Director Wants You to Seeįor the six months following its premiere in 2005, everyone from Jimmy Kimmel ( “The Pizza”) to “MADtv” ( “Trapped in the Cupboard,” featuring Jordan Peele demanding cereal while announcing “I’m R. 'History of the World, Part II' Is a Fitting Mel Brooks Sequel, for Better and WorseĪmid a Rising Tide of Reboots, 'Perry Mason' Season 2 Raises the Bar Which is why, when it first premiered in 2005, “Closet” was so ripe for cultural parody. Kelly has managed to create the “Lost” equivalent of an R&B telenovela, accompanied by the kind of hooks that dig into your brain and make you hum the repetitive “da-da-da-DA-da-da” wherever you go. If not, why aren’t you catching up now? As the world of “Trapped in the Closet” continues to expand, R. If you’re familiar with the story, you know what happens next.

The episodic opera started with the morning after a one-night stand between Sylvester (Kelly, who plays several roles) and Cathy (LeShay Tomlinson), one interrupted when the latter hears her husband coming home, forcing her lover to hide in the closet.

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