SNL recap: Dave Chappelle hosts 2022 post-election episode | EW.com - Entertainment Weekly News

Dave Chappelle. The pridefulness of Silver Spring, Md. As 1 of the world's biggest comedians, Chappelle has seen galore eras — but caller years person proven problematic, adjacent dangerous. You person opinions, I person opinions, hellhole adjacent Saturday Night Live formed and unit members person reportedly been upset with the show's determination to bring him backmost for a 3rd hosting stint.

Our favourite amusement has bumbled its mode into a civilization war. Hello, folks, it's SNL successful Review time. 

I americium joined contiguous by erstwhile SNL formed subordinate Gary Kroeger. SNL boycotts are reasonably rare, springiness oregon instrumentality a Nora Dunn. Kroeger recalls: "Jesse Jackson was benignant of 'controversial' due to the fact that helium was polarizing to immoderate radical from a governmental standpoint. The Clash arsenic a philharmonic impermanent came with a small anarchy successful their presence, but I don't callback anyone oregon immoderate important assemblage controversies. I performed arsenic a religion healer once, and that angered immoderate religion and 'family values' organizations, but thing retired of the ordinary. Nick Nolte discontinue midweek, that's the lone clip I callback a scramble to get the amusement up that week." Of course, helium adds: "Eddie Murphy rode to the rescue and hosted the show."

It's worthy noting that Chappelle antecedently hosted the SNL episodes instantly pursuing the 2016 and 2020 statesmanlike elections; this clip he's pursuing the 2022 midterms. So, contention notwithstanding, this marks different illustration of the amusement leaning into contented and its ain self-concocted crutches, for what it's worth!

Cold unfastened

Here we spell — it's Fox & Friends. Heidi Gardner and Mikey Day are joined by Bowen Yang arsenic Brian Kilmeade. "What happened to that reddish wave?" Day wonders. Previous incarnations of this sketch featured hosts Gretchen Carlson (Vanessa Bayer), Steve Doocy (Taran Killam), and Brian Kilmeade (Bobby Moynihan).

Cecily Strong is backmost arsenic Kari Lake, the far-right Republican gubernatorial campaigner successful Arizona. She oscillates connected whether she is making an allegation of elector fraud.

Next up: James Austin Johnson arsenic a antheral named Trump. This conception grapples with the GOP's disappointing predetermination results this week. The enactment whitethorn beryllium acceptable to determination connected from Trump — not due to the fact that of the chaos and death, but due to the fact that he's a loser.

This sketch ends with Kari Lake replacing Gardner successful the studio. I similar the concept, but the execution is simply a tad awkward. Overall, a tad connected the lame side. 

Monologue 

Chappelle comes retired to euphony — and applause. He denounces anti-Semitism successful a prepared connection and tells Kanye West, "That's however you bargain yourself immoderate time." This is noteworthy arsenic Chappelle and Ye person a agelong past together, going backmost to erstwhile Ye performed with Common connected Chappelle's Show. Classic performance. (Ye besides performed successful Block Party.)

It is glaring for Chappelle to sermon Ye's cancellation portion mostly ignoring his ain controversy. He seems to motion to his critics astatine the precise end. Ye, anti-Semitism, and Kyrie Irving instrumentality up a bulk of the monologue, though Chappelle yet gets to Herschel Walker: "He's observably stupid." 

He labels Trump an "honest liar" and recalls his archetypal statement performance. Chappelle wonders if this is so the extremity of the Trump era, and says Melania Trump "looks similar the benignant of chick that James Bond would smash but not trust." This gets a immense laugh. Next up: Trump stealing classified documents arsenic good arsenic the warfare successful Ukraine.

Kroeger notes: "I've learned to ne'er effort and foretell a Chappelle monologue. His gift, similar lone a fewer others, is his clarity. That doesn't mean — i.e., trans issues — that his position is the lone truth, but it is his information and helium illustrates issues successful a mode that we simultaneously admit and besides whitethorn person denied. He is simply a genuine comedic monologuist. He is topical without the constraints of being 'topical.'"

Kroeger adds, "I don't look for things I o.k. of oregon don't o.k. of. Comedy is simply a idiosyncratic taste, and satire has idiosyncratic parameters. There volition ever beryllium things 1 idiosyncratic likes and different hates. There volition ever beryllium things 1 idiosyncratic finds violative and different doesn't. I similar drama to basal apart, arsenic champion it can."

At 16 and a fractional minutes, Chappelle's monologue backmost successful 2020 was 1 of the longest successful SNL history. This rivals that. A batch to unpack, but arsenic Kroeger says, nary 1 does it rather similar Chappelle.

Potato Hole

Willie T. Hawkins (Chappelle) is simply a legendary blues instrumentalist who helium sings astir his murphy hole. This tickles the vapid (white) speech amusement hosts. Even the upwind miss and sports anchor get successful connected the puns, it's each goofy fun.

Until Hawkins reveals the atrocious information astir the enslaved origins of murphy holes. They're a awesome of oppression.

House of the Dragon

Chappelle is backmost connected signifier commenting connected the hairsbreadth and accents of the characters connected House of the Dragon. Lorne Michaels has secured a preview for the caller season.

Donnell Rawlings and Ice-T look alongside Chappelle reprising their characters from "The Playa Haters' Ball." Chappelle's Rick James besides appears — Chappelle is going backmost to the hits. Man, those characters were a long clip ago. Look, there's Tyrone Biggums excessively — why? Not definite we needed this, peculiarly since we got a akin box-checking retread that spoofed The Walking Dead successful 2016. Skip this unless you're a Chappelle's Show completist oregon truly emotion Game of Thrones.

Barber Shop Talk

It's a quintessential Black barbershop, a watering spread for radical to sermon the quality of the day. Today they're focusing connected Kanye West, Stacey Abrams, COVID-19, and different topics.

Philip (Michael Longfellow) is the interloper achromatic barber — there's a immense disconnect connected what helium has to say. He hopes helium is not offending anyone. Not bad.

Black Star execute "So Be It"

Black Star are 1 of hip-hop's large duos. Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli released their critically acclaimed debut medium backmost successful 1998, and it's 1 of the champion rap albums of the precocious '90s — and astir apt 1 of hip-hop's champion debut records, period. Back past they embodied axenic artistry. Rawkus Records was the eventual stamp of support for a suburban instrumentality specified arsenic myself. Anyway, flash forward: Their 2nd album, No Fear of Time, was lone released successful May.

Pretty energetic performance. "Brooklyn's finest," arsenic Chappelle says. (Both rappers performed connected Chappelle's Show backmost successful the time too.)

Weekend Update

Colin Jost comments connected the midterm elections, again not giving Joe Biden his due. Michael Che looks disconnected to the broadside successful absorption to a gag helium made astir Biden's property — classical Che. "Who, me?!" The assemblage is shocked astatine different gag astir iPhone accumulation successful China. Oh, Che!

Latino voters turned retired immense connected Tuesday. Jose Suarez (Marcello Hernandez) wants to tally for president 1 day, he's inspired. "Everything is fundamentally fine" would beryllium his run slogan. To him, radical request to halt complaining. He grew up successful Cuba without Wi-Fi — they had existent troubles backmost then.

Sarah Sherman besides shows up to spoof "Update" with "Sarah News"! She wants much jokes astir her and little absorption connected boring topics similar the midterms. This is truthful refreshing and funny! I anticipation it's an audition for a post-Jost/Che "Update."

Believe the podcast stans noted this conception was chopped from past week's episode. Glad it made it backmost on, it was clever. Watch this conception for sure.

Heaven Scene

Chappelle appears astatine the apical to enactment that he's excessively aged to look successful this sketch and needs a break; Mikey Day has been formed successful his relation instead. He is progressively uncomfortable saying these culturally circumstantial lines.

Of course, Day is 42, truthful this does not enactment arsenic good — Andrew Dismukes should person played this. I bash similar the breaking of the 4th partition here, arsenic Day and Chappelle support interrupting the proceedings. But it's not arsenic earthy oregon organically comic arsenic it should be. Skip.

"You were connected Wild 'n Out play 1!" Kenan Thompson chides. That's a cute call-out.

Black Star execute "The Main Thing Is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing"

This azygous was the archetypal caller worldly from Black Star since their debut. Produced by Madlib, it was released past year. Good percussion, crisp lyrical content.

"Sexual chocolate!" Bey says astatine the extremity of the performance. Great reference.

Please Don't Destroy — Election Night

Somehow Molly Kearney finds herself moving for lawyer wide of Ohio. Steve Kornacki makes a cameo.

"I gotta halt tweeting drunk!" Strong Farley energy, crossed with Andy Milonakis. 

There's lone 1 happening to do: Declare fraud. High jinks ensue. This is cute, I particularly similar Sarah Sherman playing Kearney's campaign-approved wife.

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