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Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL

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Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue – SNL




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  • maypearlnavigator

    This is the best episode of SNL so far this season. Chappelle is a great comedian who tries to touch you in all those places that make you uncomfortable, forcing you to learn something about how you fit in the world in the process.

    I was getting really tired of all the skits with genitalia jokes. The Weekend Update is so far into the episode that it feels painful to watch all that non-funny fluff before the real humor comes up. Che and Jost are always the best part of the show.

    Side note – Isn’t it crazy how closely Devon Walker resembles Pete Davidson? About the same height, same hairstyle, facial expressions and smile. He steps right into the skits that Davidson would’ve played had he stayed. The two of them have that way of making you crack a smile just using their facial expressions. Like the awesome Keenan Thompson.

    I’ve watched SNL since it came on TV. There have been great seasons and not very good seasons. I hope the rest of this season showcases more talent like Chappelle.

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  • stepoon

    There’s a select group of comedians that have that topical storyteller quality that you can just listen to for hours and find truth in the humor and not get bored. I believe this gentleman is one of them.

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  • TopOfTheKey

    I enjoyed him coming out to the beginning of Otis Redding’s ‘Try A Little Tenderness.’ It was a small thing but I appreciated that touch.

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  • c74

    if they are black then its a gang

    if they are italian its a mob

    but if they are jewish then its a coincidence and you should never speak about it.

    lmao

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  • KinshasaPR

    Chappelle is on a different realm of comedic existence. He’s not even a comedian anymore, he’s much like Carlin where they make social critique in-between jokes.

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  • Temp89

    >”If they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian, it’s a mob. If they’re Jewish, it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”

    Fucking yikes. And he defends Kyrie Irving’s anti-Semitism. Mask fully off.

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  • nataphoto

    It’s cool how if you say shit about a comedian it’s cancel culture, but if you make broad generalizations about an entire demographic of people, it’s “saying what we were all thinking”

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  • LarBrd33

    The “Jews own Hollywood thing”…

    You can read about the actual history. The very short version is that vaudeville was considered a lowbrow form of art so while others didn’t bother with it, there were jewish immigrants who gravitated towards it as performers, theater operators, etc. When the film business started, it was a natural progression for them. Once again early movies were considered a lowbrow form of art that others avoided, but Jewish immigrants with vaudeville backgrounds were early pioneers. Eventually they gravitated from New York to Hollywood where there was cheap property and they could build their own American identity. Pretty much all the major film studios were founded by Jewish people, and though they eventually sold those studios to larger corporations, Los Angeles remains as one of the two largest Jewish populations in the United States along with New York. It’s fair to say that American Jews built Hollywood. Naturally, generations of people have been born there who gravitate to the film industry in various roles.

    It’s not some evil grand conspiracy. My own Jewish great grandparents were born into poverty and came to the US to chase the American dream. My granduncle scraped by penniless in Brooklyn, got a low level job at the local Paramount movie studio at age 15, eventually he and my grandfather moved to LA to make a life out there. One selling real estate. One working in the music industry. Now years later I have cousins who have worked on movies, but they don’t control shit. It’s just that there’s a huge Jewish population there and a huge film industry there. Naturally you’re going to have Jewish people working in the film industry.

    I thought it was funny I visited last December from Seattle the Jewish population is so large that the local grocery store in Brentwood had “Happy Hanukkah” decorations painted outside. Christmas was an afterthought.

    It’s fair to also say that there is a generational transfer of wealth. Not everyone has the luxury of pursuing film school, but if you already have a well-off family, live in the area where the film industry dominates, and have schools with a focus on film, you are gonna be far more likely to get into the film industry than someone who grows up in a poor family in middle American. My grandfather followed his brother out there from Brooklyn. He was never rich, but he did luck into buying a house out there in the 1950s for $40,000. He lived the rest of his frugal life in that house. My 96 year old grandma continues to live there. It’s now completely falling apart, but her neighbors are LeBron James and Kamala Harris and the property alone is worth a couple million. The truth is, I personally was raised poor by my Irish-Catholic father from Boston. Though 23andMe literally shows I’m 50% Ashkenazi Jewish, I know absolutely nothing of the religion. Still, at some point when my grandma and mother pass away, I will likely be the one to liquidate that property and the beneficiary will be my own son. If he wants to go to film school, he will likely have that luxury. It’s a cycle that only exists because some broke ass family of Jewish people decided to chase the American dream in LA.

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  • LeoMarius

    I liked 2006 Chappelle a lot better. This one seems angry and bitter that he cannot tell us how much he doesn’t like a certain people because he thinks they are too powerful.

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