SNL: Dave Chappelle spoofs diverse casting on House of the Dragon - The Independent

Dave Chappelle spoofed House of the Dragon during his Saturday Night Live tenure this weekend.

The arguable comedian began by asking the crowd: “Anyone retired present watching this caller show, ‘House of Dragons’ [sic]?

“I americium the biggest Game of Thrones fan, I emotion their caller show. And I got to archer you, I emotion that they’re including Black characters. But to beryllium honest, the Black characters… they instrumentality maine retired of it a small bit. It’s that blonde hairsbreadth and aged timey accents. It’s a small jarring, wherever are these radical from?”

Chappelle past teed up the SNL sketch by saying that enforcement shaper Lorne Michaels had managed to unafraid a “sneak peek” of the show’s 2nd season.

The drama spoof was littered with characters and references to the host’s Noughties sketch show, Chappelle’s Show, including archetypal formed subordinate Donnell Rawlings.

In the SNL scene, Kenan Thompson arsenic Lord Corlys Velaryon introduces “new allies” including Ice-T arsenic Larry Targaryen.

The Game of Thrones prequel bid faced disapproval from immoderate fans of George RR Martin’s archetypal enactment implicit the divers castings, which were not close to the publication descriptions.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, bid co-creator Ryan Condal said connected the issue: “The satellite is precise antithetic present than it was 10 years agone erstwhile [Game of Thrones] each started. It’s antithetic than 20 years agone erstwhile Peter Jackson made The Lord of the Rings. These types of stories request to beryllium much inclusive than they traditionally person been.

“It was precise important for [co-creator Miguel Sapochnik] and I to make a amusement that was not different clump of achromatic radical connected the screen, conscionable to enactment it precise bluntly.”

Elsewhere connected SNL, Chappelle went connected a wide-ranging, 15-minute monologue that featured risqué jokes astir the Jewish community successful airy of Kanye West’s caller controversies.