Dave Chappelle’s ‘SNL’ Opening Monologue Addresses Kanye “Ye” West Antisemitic Comments - Hollywood Reporter

Dave Chappelle’s opening monologue on Saturday Night Live tackled Kanye “Ye” West’s antisemitic comments, arsenic good arsenic Donald Trump and the midterm elections.

The comedian began by speechmaking a connection helium said helium prepared. “I denounce antisemitism successful each its forms. And I basal with my friends successful the Jewish community,” helium said, earlier adding, “And that, Kanye, is however you bargain yourself immoderate time.”

Chappelle spent overmuch of his acceptable taking purpose astatine West and however the rapper and manner mogul thought helium was untouchable until Adidas, among different concern partners, dropped him aft a bid of antisemitic comments posted to societal media. “Ironically, Addias was founded by Nazis and adjacent they were offended,” helium said.

Chappelle besides discussed the contention astir Kyrie Irving, who precocious was suspended from the Brooklyn Nets for astatine slightest 5 games aft helium shared a nexus to the documentary Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America — a movie that contains antisemitic sentiments.

“He was dilatory to apologize,” the SNL big said of the NBA star. “The demands to get backmost successful their bully graces got longer and longer, and this is wherever I gully the line: I cognize the Jewish radical person been done unspeakable things each implicit the world, but you can’t blasted that connected achromatic Americans. You conscionable can’t.”

SNL‘s determination to person Chappelle big spurred disapproval aft his arguable jokes astir the transgender assemblage successful his Netflix peculiar The Closer.

In teasers starring up to the episode, Chappelle and castmember Ego Nwodim seemingly addressed the controversy. After the comedian announced that helium was hosting with philharmonic impermanent Black Star, Nwodim asked him, confused, if they were doing the amusement live, Chappelle confirmed. “With you?” she continued, “In this quality cycle?” But Chappelle didn’t code the backlash successful his monologue.

When discussing the midterms, the comedian chiefly focused connected Herschel Walker and however immoderate quality organizations consciousness similar the Trump epoch is over, but helium claims that’s not the case. He went connected to explicate that surviving successful Ohio, helium gets a firsthand look astatine Trump’s fanbase, saying “he’s precise loved. And the crushed he’s loved is due to the fact that radical successful Ohio person ne'er seen idiosyncratic similar him.”

Ahead of the opening monologue, the acold unfastened featured a conception from Fox & Friends, starring Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner and Bowen Yang arsenic Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, with peculiar appearances from Cecily Strong’s Kari Lake and James Austin Johnson’s Trump.

Chappelle hosted the drama sketch bid for the 3rd clip connected Nov. 12. The past clip the comedian hosted, it was the occurrence pursuing the 2020 predetermination successful which Joe Biden defeated Trump, who was vying for a 2nd word arsenic president. Before that, helium hosted the amusement aft Trump won the 2016 statesmanlike election.