I just don't get why you think it's ok for Dave to use his massive platform to say something shitty about people, but bad for us to use our tiny one to say something shitty about him

This is the kind of thing we have to stop doing: pretending the 1st Amendment shields you from criticism.

I don’t think it’s “standard” by a longshot. Colbert wouldn’t do it. Kimmel wouldn’t do it. Noah wouldn’t do it. Stewart wouldn’t do it. MAYBE Bill Mahr?

dave chapelle in 2024 is no longer funny. so, the snl stage seems like a natural place to see him

Attention.

Speaking of SNL . . . Fallon and Michaels played a significant role in humanizing that piece of shit, and no one should ever let them forget it. 

No, I’m getting your point and disagreeing with it. The things he’s saying aren’t just jokes devoid of any external context or meaning, and the people criticizing him aren’t ignoring other avenues of fighting for trans rights.

He doesn’t even pretend to try to be funny anymore.
ALL of his jokes now are just:
1 crapping on some discriminated group and pretending that makes him brave
2 bragging about being rich
3 complaining about being canceled despite never actually
Combine 2 or more for extra credit.

I miss the actually brilliant comedian he…

Did anyone answer the titular question?

This is pretty bad reasoning. It relies on a series of cause and effect relationships that don’t necessarily exist,

“I never said everyone had to find it funny, or that I even found it all that funny”

Chappelle’s appearance specifically aside (but, for real, what was he doing there??), I’ve been frustrated by SNL’s repeated insistence on centering sketches around celebrity cameos instead of on the host and players in recent years. The Gibb brothers sketch had almost nothing for Johnson or any of the cast members to…

Yeah, its not like he’s done something stupid like that before or anything.

One thing I noticed about Dakota last night is how different she looks with different wigs.

“Stop acting like you’re under attack!” he said, logging on in defense of the rich entertainer.

8 billion people on the planet; more than 300m live in the US and yet about 10 of them are given 90 minutes of airtime each week on a comedy program. You’re one of the billions of folks who can’t manage to make people laugh on a live tv show - it’s sad, I know but don’t try to pull other people down because you have…

Freedom of speech protects his right to be a bigot and a bully, and it protects our rights to call Dave Chappelle a piece of shit hack. Shit cuts both ways. 

Jimmy Fallon excitedly grasping at him was eye roll worthy, but then again so is literally everything Fallon does

As much as it would suck seeing that hack bigot wander onstage for the curtain call, imagine the extra sting of seeing your colleagues and coworkers eagerly embracing him.

How great was that gag where the Terror’s escape pod was shaped like a lower-case “t?” That feels like a bit straight out of the ‘90s cartoon.