The stand-up comic mostly focused on Kanye West in a lengthy monologue and alluded to the controversy surrounding explicit jokes he made about transgender ...
[ Criticism of his comments ](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/24/entertainment/trans-comics-dave-chappelle-netflix-cec/index.html)quickly mounted in 2021 following the release of his multi-million dollar Netflix special, [“The Closer,”](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/entertainment/dave-chappelle-netflix-controversy) offending LGBTQ advocates and leading some Netflix employees to protest the company and call for the special to be removed. Chappelle also joked that “Kanye got in so much trouble, Kyrie got in trouble,” referencing the NBA star [suspended by the Brooklyn Nets](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/12/sport/joe-tsai-kyrie-irving-spt-intl/index.html) for comments after sharing a link to an antisemitic movie on social media. Chappelle [addressed](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/25/entertainment/dave-chappelle-addresses-trans-netflix-employees-cec/index.html) the criticism on tour shortly after the release of his special, telling his audience he was willing to talk with trans critics but was not “bending to anybody’s demands.” [Netflix](https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/11/entertainment/dave-chappelle-netflix) stood by the special, which was later [nominated](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/12/media/dave-chappelle-netflix-the-closer-emmys) for two Emmys. You just can’t.” Before he began his routine, he unfolded a small piece of paper and read from it: “‘I denounce antisemitism in all its forms.
The Brooklyn Nets star was recently suspended for at least five games after sharing a link to the antisemitic documentary film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black ...
He was slow to apologize and then the list of demands to get back in their good graces got longer and longer and this, this is where, you know, I draw the line I know that Jewish people have been through terrible things all over the world but you can’t blame that on Black Americans, you just can’t. A billion and a half dollars in a day. I’m a Democrat and I’m telling you as soon as he won, they started saying all that he’s colluding with Russia, he’s colluding with Russia. I said I don’t want to sneak a deal because the minute I say something that makes those people mad, they’re gonna take my sneakers away. Rappers that I love, and they all had their gold chains and stuff on and Kanye said “only millionaires wear chains.” They said, “what?” He said, “I’m a billionaire. And now, okay, I could see how in New York, you might believe this is the end of his era. “It was like, “I’m feeling a little sleepy, I’m gonna get some rest, but when I wake up, I’m gonna go DEFCON 3 on the Jews!’ And then he just went to bed,” Chappelle said, eventually segueing into another antisemitic controversy: “Kanye got in so much trouble, Kyrie got in trouble.” “He was slow to apologize and the demands to get back in their good graces got longer and longer, and this is where I draw the line: I know the Jewish people have done some terrible things all over the world, but you can’t blame that on Black Americans. But apparently this movie had some, I don’t know anti-semitic tropes or something, and it was a weird title like ‘From He-Bro to Negro” or something … He called Herschel Walker “observably stupid.” And argued that the Democrats are “sore losers.” This time I was like you know what? “This time I was like, you know what?
Dave Chappelle zeroed in on Kanye during his opening monologue Saturday night on 'SNL,' explaining why Kanye now wears his chains outside his shirt.
Dave had an unusually long open -- 15 minutes -- and he spent lots of it talking about Ye's antisemitic rants. [want to cancel him](https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/10/dave-chappelle-meets-snl-saturday-night-live-writers-staff-deny-boycott/). [Kyrie Iriving](https://www.tmz.com/people/kyrie-irving/) and the midterms, calling [Trump](https://www.tmz.com/people/donald-trump/) "an honest liar" and [Herschel Walker](https://www.tmz.com/people/herschel-walker/) "observably stupid. [even Adidas dropped him](https://www.tmz.com/2022/10/25/adidas-ends-kanye-west-yeezy-partnership-anti-semitism-hate-speech/), and they were founded by the Nazis. [Dave Chappelle](https://www.tmz.com/people/dave-chappelle/) zeroed in on [Kanye](https://www.tmz.com/people/kanye-west/) during his opening monologue Saturday night on 'SNL,' explaining why Kanye now wears his chains outside his shirt. 11/13/2022 6:23 AM PT11/13/2022 6:23 AM PT