While Dave Chappelle Snl has been stated as the likely host of the next Saturday Night Live episode since the next election since 2016, this time it’s going to be comedian Bill Burr who has been announced to host the show’s return on November 9.
It became a tradition that Chappelle snl hosting the SNL after an election but for some reason unbeknownst to me SNL’s boss Lorne Michaels decided to alter the ritual of the show and replace Chappelle Snl as it prepares to follow the most important presidential election in the United States.
May’s three SNL hosting stints came soon after major election weekends, including one that booked him just days after his first. In 2016 he backed Trump’s White House triumph and moments before infamously said, ‘I did not think Trump would win the election, but I knew it,’ ‘because I know the whites.”
It was in October 2020, shortly after Biden’s victory, when Chappelle Snl himself gave a long monologue since he also saw Trump’s defeat as ‘a pretty incredible day’ but he had to add that this did not equal to America becoming safer. Those two appearances earned him Emmys for the Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series.
However in early 2022 Chappelle’s year was not without controversy as he came under fire for using a pungent anti-Semitic slur against David Letterman in defense of Kanye West, right after the mid-term elections of the said year. In the meantime, over the course of several shows on Netflix, Chappelle became equally uncompromising about his jokes about trans people.
Some of Saturday Night Live’s writers were said to have boycotted his return to the show, however a show representative said there was ‘no proof’ any SNL staff refused to work on the episode.
Now some LGBTQ+ rights advocates are happy Chappelle is out this year and ‘won’t spend 20 minutes, five days after the election attacking trans people after the swing states have been flooded with anti-trans ads for the last two or three months.’
However, Chappelle’s replacement Bill Burr is himself not without controversy and many viewers were unhappy when he was cast in Chappelle’s show.
A month before Chappelle hosted for the second time in 2020, Burr received backlash for using homosexual slur in his monologue wherein he had ‘took aim at cancel culture ‘wokeness’ and joked about not understanding what Gay Pride Month means in New York.
His jokes were not well received same way as he was not well received when performing on stage; social media users termed it as “the worst SNL monologue I’ve seen in years.”
However, in contrast, a week after McConnell’s performance, Lorne Michaels, to counterbalance, invited Charli XCX, who was one of Kamala Harris’ earliest supporters, to host and to perform as an artist on Saturday, November 16.
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