Dave Chappelle’s rep shoots down SNL boycott rumors

Dave Chappelle’s reps are denying reviews that members of Saturday Night time Reside’s writing workers are boycotting this week’s episode, which sees the controversial comic internet hosting for the third time. Certainly, when it was introduced just a few weeks in the past that Chappelle could be internet hosting the primary Saturday Night time Reside following the mid-term elections within the U.S, many have been anticipating hassle. Final yr, some members of Netflix’s workers infamously walked out of labor to boycott the comic’s particular, The Nearer, which included jokes that some within the transgender group deemed offensive. Contemplating that SNL has a non-binary forged member and a transgender author on workers, some have been anticipating a boycott. In line with an announcement made to TMZ, there have been no workers boycotts in any respect, regardless of reviews on the contrary.

In line with the TMZ report, Chappelle’s writers/forged conferences have been full, with everybody pitching sketches as they normally do. No boycott appears to be taking place, that means the comic’s return to SNL has been comparatively controversy-free among the many workers. Keep in mind that when Andrew “Cube” Clay hosted in 1990, forged member Nora Dunn refused to take part within the week’s episode. Many blame that occasion for triggering the backlash that led to the untimely decline of Cube’s profession.

Chappelle has been a fixture on SNL, with him famously internet hosting the primary episode to air after Donald Trump was elected in 2016. He additionally confirmed up in cameos when Eddie Murphy hosted in 2019, and his final time internet hosting, in 2020, went off and not using a hitch.

Regardless of the worker boycott, Chappelle’s relationship with Netflix stays robust. The service not too long ago dropped his 40-minute speech at Duke Ellington Faculty of the Arts as a particular known as What’s in a Identify? He’s additionally been a staple of their “Netflix is a Joke” comedy excursions, though throughout a cease in Los Angeles in Might, he was tackled on stage by an attendee.

Chappelle’s SNL episode airs Saturday, November twelfth. Will you be watching?