In his monologue, Chappelle talks about his experience in the White House as USA bids adieu to Barack Obama.
Dave Chapelle hosted the post-US election episode of Saturday Night Live and he opened the show with a powerful message.
In a moving story about African-American people entering the White House since the time of Abraham Lincoln, Chapelle hints that president-elect Donald Trump is not getting rid of black people.
Chappelle took over 10-minutes for his monologue as he hosted the show for the first time. The first joke landed on point when he said, "America has actually done it. We've elected an Internet troll as our president."
Then he joked about not willing to leave the country to take advantage of the tax cuts Trump promised. Because being a rich African-American is as rare as it is hard!, he says.
He also talked about staying at a Trump hotel in NYC and said, "Housekeeper comes in the morning, cleans my room, and I just go, 'Hey, good morning, housekeeping,' and grab a big handful of p—y and say, 'You know, boss said it was okay.'" This was in reference to the leaked 2005 video footage of Trump and Billy Bush on a Access Hollywood bus.
Chappelle saved his most powerful message to end the monologue. Recalling his time at the White House while attending a party organised by BET, he said, "Now, I’m not sure if this is true, but to my knowledge, the first black person who was officially invited to the White House was Frederick Douglass. They stopped him at the gates. Abraham Lincoln had to walk out himself and escort Frederick Douglass into the White House. And it didn’t happen again, as far as I know, until [Theodore] Roosevelt was president. When Roosevelt was president, he had a black guy over, and he got so much flak from the media that he literally said, ‘I will never have a n—er in this house again.’ I thought about that, and I looked at that room, and I saw all those black faces and Bradley (Cooper), and I saw how happy everybody was. These people who had been historically disenfranchised. And it made me feel hopeful and it made me feel proud to be an American, and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country.”
In that spirit, Chappelle wished Trump luck and said that he will give him a chance and in return demanded from Trump that he gives a chance to the historically disenfranchised.
Watch the monologue below -
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