Saturday Night Live
Dave Chappelle & GloRilla
January 18, 2025
In his fourth time hosting (and third time following a Presidential Election, for whatever that’s worth), Dave Chappelle broke a Saturday Night Live record by delivering the longest monologue in the show’s history. It was 17 minutes long, though it didn’t need to be. And I’m sure, like everything to do with Dave Chappelle, that will be considered a controversial take: there are plenty of people who will defend to the death this man and his comedy, even when it runs too long or hurts others.
In the end, the monologue itself won’t be remembered for its content — which at times was very funny, and only once offensive — but for its excessive, indulgent length, which led to the cutting of at least two additional sketches and screen time for the young cast. And if the rest of the sketches had been A+’s across the board, the decision to let Chappelle do an almost entire stand-up set might have been defensible. (They weren’t. But then what else is new?)
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