A quadrennial tradition.
For the second time in a row, comedian Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live the episode immediately following an election involving Donald Trump. Last time out, he was surprisingly conciliatory. This time, he was rather cutting. Variety (“Dave Chappelle Pitches the ‘Kindness Conspiracy’ in SNL Monologue“): Dave Chappelle returned to host Saturday Night Live last night for the first time since his post-election gig in 2016, and though this time around the mood was decidedly happier, Chappelle did not come to play. He started the monologue with an anecdote about his great-grandfather, who was a slave for ten years and devoted his life to “education, the freedom of Black people, and Jesus Christ.
