“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
- Boris Bazhanov The Memoirs of Stalin's Former Secretary (1992)
Welp, I logged into Twitter this Sunday morning, and it sure looks like Dave Chapelle must’ve had a good night hosting Saturday Night Live. I mean, not only are gay and trans folks angry at him, but so are Jewish folks, Trump fans, Trump haters, Game of Thrones fans, Hillary Clinton and basically everyone in Hollywood, New York and Washington, DC.
In other words, Chapelle must have just performed his regular stand-up act. Which makes sense given that many of the show’s pathetically un-funny writers boycotted this week’s episode because Chapelle was hosting it. Some observers noted that most of the skits appeared to have been written by Chapelle himself, which would undoubtedly mean it was the funniest episode of the show in at least 20 years.
I don’t know first-hand because I haven’t watched SNL since its producers decided to abandon comedy and turn it into just another leftwing propaganda platform. But for evidence, here’s most of Chapelle’s monologue if you care to watch it: