8/25/2023 0 Comments Snl writer turned comedian![]() That’s a choice not to stand behind someone they believe to be unsafe. Bowen Yang, Sarah Sherman, and Molly Kearney, SNL’s first non-binary cast member, didn’t stand up on the stage with Chappelle, nor did they appear in any sketches with him throughout the episode. There had been reports in the last week that some SNL writers were boycotting Chappelle’s show because of his history of jokes about transgender people and the digging in of his heels when called to task. LOL! These MFs have been trying to Cancel me for over 30yrs!” Ice-T, who wasn’t there for the goodbye but appeared in the House of the Dragon sketch, tweeted “Somebody said they’re going to CANCEL me after doing SNL with Dave Chappelle. He stood flanked by his friends Kweli, Mos Def, and Rawlings, like a Black Man’s wall in front of a cultural penalty kick. Being a fan of his can in fact be a beautiful struggle.Īt the end of the episode, the stage looked less crowded than usual during Chappelle’s goodbyes and good nights. I hope it’s not just that he finds people’s noisy wrestling with his comedy to be tedious and frustrating. I imagine that the fear Chappelle referenced was more about the fact that he was attacked on stage last May, not long after his friend Chris Rock was slapped at the Oscars over a mediocre joke. That’s on him, and his team of medical professionals. He didn’t tell jokes that got him in trouble. “This guy lost a billion and a half dollars in one day.” Kanye West is a sick narcissist who once made brilliant music. “Now you see Kanye walking around LA barefoot with his chain out,” he said. “About anything.” Maybe he was alluding to the specter of cancel culture and Black superstars’ lost sneaker deals. ![]() “It shouldn’t be scary to talk,” Chappelle said towards the end of his monologue. Doesn’t mean we run the place.” For me, that joke is less concerned who runs Hollywood and more calling out when numbers don’t add up to power. But that doesn’t mean anything, you know what I mean? There’s a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri. “But I have to admit, he’s observably stupid.”) I like to think (I choose to think?) that Chappelle truly was wrestling with what he called “the rules of perception” when it comes to identity and power. (One moment we can all agree on was his terrific wincing over Herschel Walker: “I don’t want to speak badly on him because he’s Black,” he said. Has there ever been a full 15 minutes given over to a monologue? Chappelle came through the doors to Lenny Pickett’s saxophone playing the aching opening notes of “Try a Little Tenderness.” He wasn’t holding his usual cigarette, which somehow left him appearing vulnerable, like perhaps he understood that he was a guest in someone else’s house and should follow their rules.įor the next 48 hours, Chappelle’s monologue will certainly be blasted and defended by Twitter’s most strident of voices. ![]() He was also a man apart in the sketches themselves, like in the Potato Hole bit in which his blues musician sits separately from the obtuse white morning news team schooling them on the historical resilience of Black people in the face of white oppression. Throughout the episode, Chappelle repeatedly took the stage to introduce sketches, echoing the format of his former Comedy Central show and reminding the audience of just who’s in charge. One has to believe host Dave Chappelle got to hand-select Brooklyn’s hero duo Black Star, composed of Chappelle’s Midnight Miracle podcast’s co-hosts Talib Kweli and Mos Def, as his musical guests. For all the glib and tedious talk of cancel culture, it’s hard to remember a host ever being granted that much power over an episode. It was Chappelle’s Show last night on Saturday Night Live.
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