Dave Chappelle Revisits His 2016 Trump ‘SNL’ Speech — And Whether It’s Aged Well
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The comedian recently sat down for a rare interview in which he recalled giving the MAGA leader "a chance" during his 2016 postelection monologue.
Dave Chappelle says he “fondly” remembers his 2016 monologue on “Saturday Night Live,” which was recorded mere days after Donald Trump was elected president for the first time, even if others may have concerns about how well the speech has aged.
The standup comedian, who included words of hope as Trump prepared to take the White House for the first time, has delivered similarly thoughtful “SNL” sets following former President Joe Biden’s win in 2020 and ahead of Trump’s recent inauguration.
Chappelle has avoided interviews since the barrage of anti-transgender jokes in his 2021 Netflix special “The Closer” divided viewers, but recently sat down for a Variety “Actors on Actors” chat with fellow comic Mo Amer — in which he stood by his 2016 monologue about Trump.
“I haven’t watched it in a while, but I remember it fondly,” Chappelle said in the video published Wednesday.
The comedian delivered a cautiously hopeful monologue at the time and said he’d give Trump “a chance” if he gave “the historically disenfranchised” one, too, as Amer, a Palestinian comic he grew close to during the COVID-19 pandemic, reminded him in the video.
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