January 19, 2025

Dave Chappelle does the opening monologue on "Saturday Night Live."

Here it is, from last night, all 17 minutes:

23 comments:

Another old lawyer said...

Watching someone smoke on TV - actually, and live - takes me back to when I was young and it was an every night thing on Carson. Thanks Dave.

Another old lawyer said...

And wearing a suit and a tie. All old school. What year is this?

Robert Marshall said...

"Have empathy for displaced people, whether they're in Palisades, or Palestine."

Well, okay, but are we allowed also to consider the extent to which they made their own bed?

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

That was very good. Had me cracking up a few times.

Shouting Thomas said...

I have zero interest in stand-up. That said, Chappelle is funny.

Off to play for the Methodists, who do know how to take a joke.

Breezy said...

Hostages are displaced people. Is that what he meant by Palestine? No, I don’t think so.

Funny monologue though. The Diddy part was hilarious - :).

ron winkleheimer said...

It was funny. However, the fact that the migrants in Springfield are there legally does not make it right. I'm sure the factory owners and landlords were thrilled to get 30,000 people to exploit, so they could keep wages down and increase their rent incomes, doesn't mean the current residents, who are actual US citizens, are automatically bigots and drug addicts because they don't want to work for a pittance.

rehajm said...

The burning land in Mississippi joke exposes the part of the climate scam where the proof of more extreme weather is the higher value of insurance claims…

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

The seriousness at the ending reminded me of Cliff Clavin doing standup but without the humor: "But seriously folks, on a serious note, I just want to say, . . . drinking and driving, . . . what's up with that?"

Krumhorn said...

The man is genius.

- Krumhorn

Cappy said...

Blah blah stickittodaJews blah blah.

Amexpat said...

Excellent monologue. Nice suit, but he should have unbuttoned the middle button of his jacket.

Spiros said...

Is Chappelle saying no refuge, no rest for the Jew! Or is he saying that, in order to end the "apartheid," Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs must share a single state with full and equal rights, including the freedom of movement, equal access to government services and so on, for all the people living in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip? Is there a difference between smashing Israel to pieces and a one state solution? How would Israeli Jews stop the much larger Muslim population from engaging in religious cleansing, a type of cultural genocide, against the Jews (and the Christians) if there are no walls between the two communities?

Howard said...

All new material and he killed.

Aggie said...

'Legally' is a funny way to describe applying a workaround whose intention has been ignored and which has been bent well past its breaking point. The government pretended that economic preferences are the same thing as political asylum.

Bob Boyd said...

Have empathy for displaced people, unless they're poor whites in the rust belt.

Mazo Jeff said...

I think the point of the Springfield Ohio episode is not "they're eating the pets" monolog. It was the "legally" influx of 20,000 people into a town of 50,000!
Can you imagine "legally" moving 20,000 Hispanic people into a town of 50,000 primarily African American! Do you think there might be some concern?

Bob Boyd said...
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rehajm said...

He’s funny. How tiring the swipes at Trump, though. He’s small and petty but we ignore the current vegetable and the vindictiveness of his handlers what actually run things. Trump is neither btw, it’s just your big brain is too occupied to figure that out. I don’t approve of incentivizing more terrorism, either…

rehajm said...

…that one stuck with me, too, fsr…

AMDG said...

It was a funny set but he is wrong about Carter. Carter was both a bad President and a worse former President.

Blair said...

Brilliant stuff. I didn't agree with it all, but he was funny, which is the point of Dave Chappelle. He should give Stephen Colbert some pointers on that.

Iman said...

Court jester.