Looks like the Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt slammed NBC and accused Saturday Night Live of “popularizing antisemitism.”
“We shouldn’t expect DaveChappelle to serve as society’s moral compass, but disturbing to see @nbcsnl not just normalize but popularize #antisemitism,” he wrote on Twitter. “Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn? Why does our trauma trigger applause?”
As we previously reported, Dave Chappelle made his way to ’SNL’ last night (November 12), and delivered possibly one of the longest monologues in the show’s history. He talked Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, Herschel Walker, Donald Trump, and more. Before his the show went live SNL already began to receive backlash for booking the comedian to host.
One Twitter user tweeted out saying, “Having Dave Chappelle host SNL again is a slap in the face to trans people, including one of their own new cast members.”
If your not aware to why fans were upset, Dave Chappelle was in hot water after his 2021 comedy special, “The Closer” where he made statements about the trans community. It wasn’t too long ago where Chappelle’s concert was recently was canceled due to his comedy special. First Avenue recently made headlines after they released a statement saying they were canceling Dave Chappelle’s show and moving it to the Varsity Theater after facing backlash for booking the comedian.
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Dave Chappelle has been very vocal about the controversy of his stand up, ‘The Closer’ the comedian said in his new special that he spoke with a group of kids to hear what they had to say about the backlash he received. According to Chappelle, “All the kids were screaming and yelling. I remember, I said to the kids, I go, ‘Well, OK, well what do you guys think I did wrong?’ And a line formed. These kids said everything about gender, and this and that and the other, but they didn’t say anything about art.”
He added, “And this is my biggest gripe with this whole controversy with ‘The Closer’: That you cannot report on an artist’s work and remove artistic nuance from his words.