Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Perfectly Burns Dave Chappelle Ahead of ‘SNL’ Hosting Gig
Dave Chappelle ahead of his hosting performance on Saturday Night Live this weekend when the stand-up will surely turn in another memorable, topical and terrific opening monologue — for Triumph to poop on.
The last time Chappelle hosted Alex Jones’ show to make such definitely-not-anti-Semitic comments as “I like Hitler,” “I love Nazis” and “I see good things about Hitler." Now, roughly two years later, Chappelle is ready to return to Studio 8H this Saturday when he will probably give a tearful eulogy for Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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The official Twitter of Late Night with Conan O’Brien is celebrating Chappelle Week at 30 Rockefeller Plaza by warning the SNL darling not to go barking up the wrong tree during this trying time:
This past November, SNL broke from its usual tradition of having Chappelle appear on the show following the general election and deliver his simultaneously sobering and playful perspective on American culture and politics to a tense audience, instead giving Elon Musk.
In his most recent SNL monologue, Chappelle opened the show by glibly toeing an anti-Semitic line during a time when entertainers and athletes were openly professing their love for Nazi ideology. “Early in my career, I learned there are two words you should never say together,” Chappelle noted, referencing then-recent inflammatory comments from West, Kyrie Irving and numerous other celebrities regarding Jewish people. “Those words are ‘the’ and ‘Jews.’ Never heard someone do good after they said that.”
Chappelle went on to defend West’s erratic and bigoted behavior, saying of the rapper’s public claims that Jewish people control all media and entertainment in America, “I’ve been to Hollywood — it’s a lot of Jews. Like, a lot.” Chappelle hinted at his misgivings with what he believes to be the preferential treatment of Jewish people in the media and popular culture throughout the set, at one point commenting, “If they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian, it’s a mob. But if they’re Jewish, it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”
Chappelle even pushed back on the controversy surrounding NBA star Irving’s platforming and promotion of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, saying, “I know that Jewish people have been through terrible things all over the world but you can’t blame that on Black Americans. … Kyrie Irving’s Black ass was nowhere near the Holocaust. In fact, he’s not even certain it existed.”
Now, with Los Angeles on fire and tensions high throughout the entertainment business, Triumph says that Chappelle should stick to his old punching bag, because if history has taught us anything, it’s that anti-Semitism is rarely as dangerous as playing with fire.
