Dave Chappelle hosts for 4th time with musical guest GloRilla

Welcome to 2025, Conehead nation! There’s so much Saturday Night Live content these days, I can barely keep up. Documentaries, 8H “experiences” and now, oh yes, the return of season 50.

Dave Chappelle hosts the first episode of the new year, in his fourth gig. The previous episodes hosted by the legendary (if increasingly controversial) stand-up were mostly grounded in election reactions; they were November shows. Tonight’s episode also has a political twinge — we are less than 48 hours from the end of Joe Biden’s presidency and the return of Donald Trump to the White House. How will Dave make sense of this?

I am honored to be joined tonight with commentary with former SNL cast member Jerry Minor, who is planning to launch a new podcast with ECamm, Playing to the Back of the Room. On Chappelle, Minor shares: “I’ve always been a big fan… I think he’s great, and he’s usually a really good host.”

Reflecting on the pending Trump 2.0 era in comedy, Minor thinks it will be hard to strike the right tone in terms of political jokes: “Obviously shows like Saturday Night Live will continue to do them. But how does that happen? How do people make fun of him? How mad is he going to get at the way people make fun of him?” He adds: “During the 2000 election, Bush and Gore both came to SNL and did bits. Back then both candidates would probably make an effort to at least make some kind of appearance on the show… Even then we felt like no matter how I felt about either candidate, there was always an effort not to get too close to them, because I knew I was going to have to make fun of them.”

Scroll down and be merry folks. Hopefully our friends at 8H are well-rested and ready to meet the moment.

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