SNL 1/18/25

Do blacks even like him? He seems to have been created by white Millennials anxious to appear "Woke".

R1, Those in the stand up world certainly do, and consider him the GOAT of comedy, but his audience has always been predominately white men, it seems.

R2, white men who hate trannies and who still need Nigger Lessons. Got it.

Btw, R1, the only thing Dave has in common with “woke” millennials is his stance on Palestinians vs. Zionists. His views on feminism, abortion, and LGBT issues skews conservative.

And, thus, The Great Asleepening begins

I couldn’t help but notice: what’s up with Dave’s hobo garb in the promo? It looks like something Jerry Lewis wore in “The Day the Clown Cried.”

Dave!

The Dave Chappelle monologue drinking game — take a shot whenever he mentions:

Trump’s inauguration

MLK day

Lesbian firefighters

P. Diddy

Joe Biden’s dementia

Elon Musk

^^ I forgot: immigrants. Take 2 shots whenever he mentions immigrants.

How many trannies will set themselves on fire in protest tonight?

How many trannies will set themselves on fire in protest tonight?

If they go after Dump tonight, will he demand they be cancelled on Monday?

Gawd this is annoying.

This opening is over-padded. Should have started with donald and then cut back and forth to MSNBC.

Television writers have forgotten how to tell a story.

Aluminum coming in from Canada and tariffs ...oops to boring.

The most poignant line in the cold open.

Important facts that are not tabloid are not need any more. America DEMANDS to he entertained.

Smoking. How cutting-edge.

Lack of Self Awareness 101: Discuss the LA fires while illegally smoking in a tv studio while flicking ashes everywhere.

Listen between the lines of Chappelle's monolog.

Damn! He had to go "there" with "flaming" just as I was typing.

Regardless, I'm using my "inner ears."

Chappelle is so fucking loathsome.

Are his monologues contractually required to be telethons?

Chappelle is the same asshole who made an AIDS joke about Freddy Mercury. On SNL.

To hell with him and this show.

Did he just say he saw Reginald Vel Johnson and Diddy having sex at one of his freak-offs?

He reminds me of the character ‘Rochester’ on Jack Benny’s old TV show reruns.

"Do Better This Time."

Brilliant and poignant.

Dave Chappelle is a white guy from rural Ohio.

For about one year in his twenties, he was “edgy.”

He then lost the plot and has been an unfunny, conservative hack ever since.

Thank you and goodnight". Is he high, does he think he's in Vegas? He forgot to say the musical guest then they cut him off to go to commercial. 20 minutes of blah, blah, blah, Palestine, blah, blah, blah, flaming (asshole,) blah, blah blah, Trump kumbaya. Yeah, I don't think so.

I’m sure Trump will take your advice, Dave. Only YOU can make him change his ways.

Chappelle actually BOUGHT UP property in Yellow Springs. Property owners aren't thrilled their taxes are going up because Mr Big Shot is "saving" the town and they need new schools and infrastructure. He isn't the "hero" he claims to be. Springfield is a paradise compared to Yellow Springs.

[quote]Thank you and goodnight".

Did he forget that he has to do some sketches to do? He sounded like he was ready to go backstage and hang himself.

^^Sorry about the grammar — I’m drunk from all the shots I took during his references to immigrants and Puff Daddy.

Not Funny.

He needs to lay off the smokes. He could barely get through that scene without huffing and puffing his lines.

Oh goodie. Another lipsynching "artist"...

His monologue ran so long he was cut during the closing show announcement.

And this season's obsession with fake blood gore has to stop. It was last funny with the Bass-o-matic

And after two lame skits, the unannounced musical guest.

Muting this garbage.

The only thing I remember is watching his crotch, pretty sure he is freeballing. I have never understood his humor and popularity.

Are boring Michael and boring Jane, sibling castmates? 🤔

I have absolutely no intention of watching Chappelle’s ugly transphobic ass. Fuck SNL. I pray that Lorne retires after this season.

Isn’t that actually Judy In London!!?

Garbage Mute v.2.

Lots of VPL from Chappelle during his monolugue

Well, hey, look—more stupid airhead-sounding girls lineup skit comedy!

Life is so weird.

20 years ago, I loved Dave Chappelle. His comedy was one of the great joys of being a young person living in DC.

Now, I have to boycott SNL (which I normally watch, albeit desultorily) to avoid him.

OP44, you had me at “desultorily.”

Chappelle is showing VPL sitting on that stool during the opening monologue.

I didn't watch this. Is dave for or against Palestine?

I'm going bet that's he fully supports them.

I’m black and I like Dave Chappelle. I love how you never exactly know where the punchline is coming from, sometimes way out of left field, and it hits you and it’s hysterical.

I remember one time he was talking about the Black Civil Righrs movement and its genesis. He was talking about all the great leaders from the 60s up through the 2000s. It was a moving seven minutes. Then he says “and in all that time Cosby was raping women - puttin’ up real numbers.” You’re like wha??? But it’s true. It drove home how horrific what Cosby did was.

You'd win that wager, R47.

[quote]He forgot to say the musical guest

That’s a good thing.

[quote]I didn't watch this. Is dave for or against Palestine? I'm going bet that's he fully supports them.

He’s Muslim, so yeah — Dave is for Palestine. He used to do a routine in his standup called “Space Jews” about the Zionist occupation of Palestinian territories.

[quote]I love how you never exactly know where the punchline is coming from,

or if they are ever coming. Dave lost his train of thought, was he keeping not offending Trump on his mind, twice and two set up had to landing. He has evolved into just another rich, white Ohioan.

Rachel Maddow is more perspicacious in her ridicule of the shambolic Trump.

He was painfully aware early on that he bombed.

R1 Bruh Chapelle is absolutely adored in the black community. He is not just a funny stand up comedian, he is an intellectual helping us to digest this mad world in an entertaining way. That’s not my opinion that is just the facts. He’s our George Carlin.

R2 I wouldn’t say majority white men but he is a crossover comedian so just like Eddie Murphy or a crossover r&b singer there will be more white people in that audience. He can also play in cities across America that don't have sizeable AA populations. Most black comedians are limited to the eastern seaboard and SoCal.

He wasn’t even in the police artist sketch which was kind of odd.

R52, did you loose your train of thought? I had trouble following your phrasing.

It doesn't appear as if Chappelle has missed any meals to a significant degree.

Yeah R1, I have to agree with R55, black people absolutely adore Dave Chappelle. I know I do. I find him very funny and if you take a look around, one of the few comedians actually producing work in this very dangerous cancel culture. And let’s just point out, the majority of things people were getting cancelled for were coming from the left, not the right. So when that’s what you’re constantly battling,, a group of people trying to destroy your livelihood over what you have to say - then obviously you are going to turn your jokes on them - if that’s your super power.

What is the big deal with Dave Chappelle? Not just now but ever? I never saw the appeal in him.

Chappelle can say whatever he wants to say. I don’t have any interest in canceling comedians.

He just isn’t funny..

He just isn't funny to you, R61. I would phrase it that way. He's one of the most famous comedians of the 21st century - so saying he isn't funny is a bit performative. He isn't funny to you - which in this day and age is a trait. It's like how someone saying Taylor Swift is a musical genius tells you all you need to know about the person.

"I could burn 40,000 acres in Mississippi for like 6 or 700 dollars".

The Immigrant Dads sketch was comic platinum.

R53, he looked taken aback when the Luigi Mangione joke didn't land. He had to stop and explain to the audience who he was. We know who he is, the joke just wasn't funny. Maybe he should learn the difference between Life & Health insurance vs Property & casualty.

R64, I'm tired of trying to figure what the hell Marcello is saying when he lays on that thick accent. He could have been doing pantomime and made more sense.

[quote] The only thing I remember is watching his crotch, pretty sure he is freeballing. I have never understood his humor and popularity.

I could not take my eyes off his crotch the whole time he was sitting on the stool adjusting himself. He's definitely packing a nice sized sausage in there - damn ! And his balls looked nicely round. I can't remember one joke he told because my eyes never left his dick.

I'm so glad GLORilla was the musical guest. She brought class and elegance to the show. Who the hell books this 'musical talent' each week ?

R59 What the hell are you talking about?

[quote]one of the few comedians actually producing work in this very dangerous cancel culture.

Comedians (Bill Burr and thousands of comics) produce "content" ad nauseum. Many of "bro culture" critiques of "cancel culture"... there so many more attacks on "cancel culture" than and voices from said culture. I am exhausted with this grievance crap.

I have not been a fan of Chapelle.... I liked him on cable before he disappeared to "find himself"... I've found he tedious and not funny with his turgid "anti-woke" expected bullshit. His anti-trans stuff is just cheap shots and, again, NOT funny. But the end of the opening monologue last night moved me. His description of Carter's courage was a reminder to Americans of the possibility of working from our "higher selves"... his wishing good luck to Trump, attached to a reminder that refugees from both Pacific Palisades and Palestine deserved compassion. I am ok with a cultural icon with great support among MAGA/Bro culture world to suggest we remember to have compassion.

R68, no one gives two shits what you like. The majority love him and agree with him. You’ll just have to deal with it.

[quote] It doesn't appear as if Chappelle has missed any meals to a significant degree.

Only a Methed out queen would think this.

r57, this is a rewritten version:

Or if they are were ever coming. Dave lost his train of thought multiple times.

Was he keeping "not offending Trump" on his mind? Was THAT the big distraction?

Two set-ups had no landing. He simply wandered.

He has evolved into just another rich, white Ohioan.

Rachel Maddow is more perspicacious in her ridicule of the shambolic Trump.

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r52

[quote][R1] Bruh Chapelle is absolutely adored in the black community. He is not just a funny stand up comedian, he is an intellectual helping us to digest this mad world in an entertaining way. That’s not my opinion that is just the facts. He’s our George Carlin.

R54 That’s interesting because Josh Johnson reminds me more of Carlin, because he takes shots at the rich and powerful while Dave seems to acquiesce to them, being one himself now. Imagine George Carlin bragging about being buddies with Elon Musk and bringing him on stage like a trophy. 😂

^^ TOOK shots, I mean. RIP George Carlin.

Did anyone else notice his package? Must be 4 to 5 inches while flaccid. Appeared to be uncut.

R 54 has a point. I personally haven’t cared much for him since his brilliant TV show. It mostly is the transphobia with me, which I believe comes from some of his own internalized personal shit, as it does for the DL transphobes. Just saying. 💅🏼

He hardly says anything about trans people R54, it’s the activists that elevated his comments to literal genocide.

Internalized personal shit? I don’t think saying trans women AREN’T women is a sign of internalized self loathing.

I found his monologue hard to make out and follow at times.

Chappelle's Show was indeed edgy and brilliant at times.

2025 Dave, not so much.

[quote] He hardly says anything about trans people [R54], it’s the activists that elevated his comments to literal genocide.

Internalized personal shit? I don’t think saying trans women AREN’T women is a sign of internalized self loathing.

I knew that would touch a nerve. Y’all transphobic bitches are so easy. 😂

The monologue would have been a lot more relevant and funny if he went after the tech billionaires instead of recycling a bunch of stale jokes about P. Diddy parties and baby oil. Was he kept in a deep freeze for 6 months?

Dave Chappelle has spelled out his beef with the Trans Community several times. It's not internalized, it's actually well documented in his standup comedy. In the beginning he had a joke that wasn't even transphobic and the Trans Community was feeling extra zesty at this particular point in time, coming after every single person over mirco-agressions, and they tried to derail his career over it. Ever since then it has grown and grown, and he puts it all into his comedy. And it has become more pointed. Actually one of his friends was a trans women who ended up committing suicide (possibly because the Trans Community dragged her for days on twitter of her defense of him). The story, told by him, is actually pretty poignant and worth a listen and proof as to why DC is an amazing comic.

R81 There has got to be more to that, because MANY comedians get stalked by their haters, yet they don’t become obsessed with being victimized, and don’t continually use their “victimization” to gain sympathy. Dave has a BIG axe to grind, not only for the trans, but for gay people as well. He’s terrified over the emasculation of Black men. Honestly, I think it’s a valid fear because of American history, along with the grooming of Black men in Hollywood who are often pressured by white male directors and producers to put on women’s drag, as Katt Williams has pointed out.

I’d guess either Dave was victimized as a young man, or was put in a compromising position and then blackmailed (perhaps by Musk or some other powerful person), which is why he won’t go after certain public figures in his routines.

His past friendship with a trans woman is also odd, especially because most straight men don’t hang out with T-girls. Maybe there was more to that relationship and, being Muslim, he started doubling down on trans people to distance himself from them out of concern for his own safety and well-being, ironically. If you connect the dots between the L.A. fires, the word “sodomites,” West Hollywood, and P. Diddy’s parties in his monologue, it paints a very clear picture.

How was Gorilla??

R83 Very demure. A real elegant woman and role model for young ladies everywhere.

I think this episode may have had the fewest number of sketches. Wonder how many cut for time sketches there will be.

R82, 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[quote]Actually one of (Chappelle’s) friends was a trans women who ended up committing suicide (possibly because the Trans Community dragged her for days on twitter of her defense of him)

Weird — IIRC, one of Eddie Murphy’s trans women also died under similar circumstances (suicide or a freak accident.)

The good news about last night's episode was that we weren't really subjected to too much of Bowen Yang. That's always a great thing.

When has Dave ever bashed gay people? I need the receipts. What the fuck does concern about the emasculation of black men have to do with homophobia.

Dave sucking on a cigarette while free-balling is the most Freudian thing I’ve seen in an SNL monologue.

[quote]When has Dave ever bashed gay people? I need the receipts. What the fuck does concern about the emasculation of black men have to do with homophobia

Here’s Dave explaining it himself, R89.

So many of you are only willing to listen to people who say things with which you agree. How's that working out for you?

Love Glorilla

R82, dud you watch the story? I don’t see what’s off about the friendship.

R94 What’s off about it is that Dave initiated it when he spotted Daphne, an aspiring comic, in his audience and decided to “mentor” her, even though Dave has described Daphne as being a mediocre comic. Something else was going on. This wasn’t an old pal who transitioned during their friendship.

[quote]How was Gorilla??

Audrey Hepburn reincarnate, Rose.

According to Cardi B, Glorilla is her cousin from when her Dominican grandfather went down south to hustle and got some black chick pregnant. At first I thought they were trolling for laughs but Cardi talks about it like she’s serious. 🧐

They aren’t women R79. A Woman is an adult human female. Hormones and plastic surgery don’t change a man into a woman. Sorry.

I skipped the episode. Have no desire to watch him.

When I watch comics, I want to have a good time. He's a bitter, utterly joyless bitch who performs under a nihilistic cloud.

R99 you know what. I’m a fan of Dave but he is kinda becoming joyless lately. That’s a good adjective you stated. Just leave the trans culture alone. Too much crazy.

[quote]He's a bitter, utterly joyless bitch who performs under a nihilistic cloud.

I hate to say it, but George Carlin also entered that phase in his final days.

There are all different kinds of comedians R99. You just can't handle the ones that deal with social commentary like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Paul Mooney and Dave Chappelle. It's not your cup of tea because they go into deep dark places and make people think. You should stick with the Jim Gaffigans of the world.