Dave Chappelle delivers a message to Trump and riffs on Palestine, Diddy and migrants in SNL monologue

Dave Chappelle returned to Saturday Night Live with a connection for Donald Trump arsenic helium joked astir everything from the Los Angeles wildfires to struggle successful the Middle East.

The 51-year-old comic's appearances connected the amusement person drawn contention and headlines since his monologue aft Trump won successful 2016.

He's since returned to the limelight arsenic an A-list comic, making the quality and causing laughs and discourtesy for his comments connected Trump, Biden, transgender radical and anti-Semitism.  

Chappelle - astatine 1 constituent joking that helium was 'tired of being controversial' and hoping to 'turn implicit a caller leaf' - ended his acceptable to unfastened the NBC amusement discussing Trump, saying: 'He'll beryllium the 47th president, he's done it again.'

While sitting connected a stool and smoking a cigarette, Chappelle initially joked successful a 17-minute monologue that the lone crushed helium agreed to big Saturday Night Live again was to pain disconnected aged Trump jokes. 

The comedian relayed an anecdote astir the precocious President Jimmy Carter going to Palestine with minimal information portion Chappelle was visiting the Middle East.

Chappelle went connected an infamous hiatus from drama and discontinue his fashionable Comedy Central amusement successful 2004 and visited assorted places astir the satellite afterward, including Africa and the Middle East.

'I volition ne'er hide the images of a erstwhile American president walking with nary information with thousands of Palestinians cheering him connected and erstwhile I saw that picture, it brought tears to my eyes. I said I don't cognize if that's a bully president but that close there, I americium sure, is simply a large man. It made maine consciousness precise proud,' helium said.

He added that 'the presidency is nary spot for petty people,' past addressed Trump and the remainder of the nation, joking that 'I cognize you ticker the show.' 

To Trump and America, Chappelle said: 'Man, retrieve whether radical voted for you oregon not, they're each counting connected you. Whether they similar you oregon not, they're each counting connected you. The full satellite is counting connected you. I mean this erstwhile I accidental this, bully luck. Do amended adjacent time. Please, each of us, bash amended adjacent time.' 

'Do not hide your humanity and delight person empathy for displaced radical whether they're successful the Palisades oregon Palestine,' helium concluded to dense applause.  

Earlier, Chappelle had what helium said were admittedly 'too soon' laughs astir the wildfires, saying that 'the infinitesimal I said yes' to SNL, 'LA burst into flames.'

He said that contempt the information that he's ne'er lived successful the city, it hits adjacent to location and cited respective celebrated friends who'd mislaid their homes. 

'Then I spell connected the net and I ticker these occurrence videos and the comments each accidental it serves these celebrities right, I anticipation their houses pain down,' helium said.

'You spot that? That close there? That's wherefore I hatred mediocre people,' Chappelle joked. 'They can't spot past their ain pain!' 

He riffed connected however Los Angeles' wildfires would beryllium the astir costly earthy catastrophe successful American history, joking that 'it's due to the fact that radical successful LA person bully stuff. I could pain 40,000 acres of Mississippi for similar $600-700.'

At 1 point, helium dismissed the conspiracy theories astir the fire, lone to say: 'If you were a rational reasoning person, you person to astatine slightest see the anticipation that God hates these people. It's a lotta whites!'

He past joked astir 1 of the area's LGBTQ-friendly communities, saying that God can't person perchance bash this 'because West Hollywood was unscathed, due to the fact that however tin you pain what is already flaming.'

Chappelle, who lives successful Ohio, past talked astir this past summer's contention concerning Haitian migrants successful the metropolis of Springfield, which Chappelle lives 1 municipality implicit from. 

He said that Trump's speculation that 'they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats' made him 'crazy.'

Chappelle claimed that these Haitians had travel they're legally and 'they did jobs the whites weren't doing. It's not that the whites couldn't bash these jobs but they were doing different things: heroin, sleeping connected the streets.'

Then helium said, successful hopes helium could beryllium supportive, helium spent 10 days eating his luncheon each time astatine a Haitian edifice successful Springfield 'to fto them cognize if I'm harmless here, you guys are decidedly harmless here.'

'To beryllium honorable with you, I don't cognize what that nutrient was,' helium said with a wry smile. 'But immoderate it was, it fell close disconnected the bony I'll archer you that.' 

He joked that helium mightiness permission Ohio on with the Haitians due to the fact that 'its conscionable nary amusive being celebrated anymore.'

That led into a spot regarding Sean 'Diddy' Combs, who has pleaded not blameworthy to enactment trafficking charges lodged against him aft his September arrest. Combs has remained incarcerated, awaiting a May 5 trial, aft bail was rejected pursuing bail hearings earlier 3 antithetic judges.

'I've been successful occupation successful my time but fto maine archer you, this guy, Puffy... this feline Puffy is successful an tremendous magnitude of trouble, I don't deliberation I've ever seen thing similar this. They've got this feline successful a RICO lawsuit by himself!

Chappelle claimed he'd ne'er been invited to immoderate of the alleged 'freakoffs' Diddy held and came to a realization. 

'I thought astir it, I said ohio my God... I'm ugly. Everyone successful Hollywood had an orgy down your backmost and nary of y'all called me? That truly hurts!' 

He changed his mind, saying that helium was not disfigured but rather, 'I person snitch energy. I look similar I'll tell. The past happening you wanna spot astatine the orgy is maine looking crossed astatine you.'

Chappelle has mostly been retired of the limelight for the past twelvemonth oregon truthful but has inactive remained a arguable figure.

In 2023, he sparked a walkout during a amusement successful Boston after slamming Israel for its 'war crimes' against Palestinians. 

Earlier successful January, woke comedian Michelle Buteau slammed Chappelle and accused him of profiting from 'dangerous' transgender jokes that 'make radical consciousness unsafe'. 

His astir caller special, The Dreamer, was released successful 2023, the past of multi-million dollar declaration with Netflix which helium referenced connected the SNL stage. 

Earlier successful the show, SNL mocked MSNBC's reliance connected Trump successful their quality sum successful a acold opening sketch.