Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue took on Kanye West and Kyrie Irving's antisemitism and the fate of the Trump era after the midterm elections
opened with a disclaimer denouncing antisemitism. “And that, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time.”
Chappelle began his 15-minute stand-up on Kanye West’s disastrous few weeks, during which anti-semitic comments caused him to lose, among other things, more than a billion dollars of his net worth in a single day. “I gotta tell you guys, I’ve probably been doing this for 35 years now and early in my career, I learned that there are two words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence and those words are ‘The’ and ‘Jews.’”
“Kanye’s gotten into some scrapes before and normally when he’s in trouble, I pull up immediately,” Chappelle continued. “This time I was like, you know what? Let me see what’s gonna happen first.” The audience laughed as Chappelle traced Ye’s steps back to where it all seemingly began: one bizarre tweet. “It was like, “I’m feeling a little sleepy, I’m gonna get some rest, but when I wake up, I’m gonna go DEFCON 3 on the Jews!’ And then he just went to bed,” Chappelle said, eventually segueing into another antisemitic controversy: “Kanye got in so much trouble, Kyrie got in trouble.”
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