Comedian Dave Chappelle opened his hosting duties on Saturday Night Live with a monologue sympathizing with Kyrie Irving and Kanye West in the midst of their antisemitism controversies.
with a monologue sympathizing with Kyrie Irving and Kanye West in the midst of their antisemitism controversies.
“Kyrie Irving posted a link to a movie that he’d seen on Amazon,” Chappelle explained. “No caption on the post or nothing like that, but apparently this movie had some, I don’t know, antisemitic tropes or something. It was some weird title like ‘From Hebrew to Negro’ or something.” Chappelle continued saying, “And the NBA told him he should apologize and he was slow to apologize. And the list of demands to get back into their good graces got longer and longer and this is where, you know, I draw the line.”
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