Even Los Angeles isn’t protected from Dave Chappelle’s comedy.
The Emmy winner, 51, mocked the wildfire evacuations throughout his second skit internet hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
Within the sketch, Chappelle performs the dad of a household that receives an alert telling them they should flee their house because of the blaze.
However Chappelle shocks his spouse, performed by Ego Nwodim, and their son, performed by Devon Walker, when he out of the blue takes a sledgehammer to the wall to get $500,000 in money and a counterfeit passport.
“Don’t worry about where I got my money. Ain’t no time to explain. Let’s just go!” Chappelle franticly tells his household.
The comic additionally retrieves a gun and a thumb drive hidden behind a clock, as a person with a knife, performed by Michael Longfellow, enters the room demanding the money.
Chappelle “shoots” the person whose blood splatters all around the wall and on Walker.
Subsequent, Chappelle opens a cupboard the place a French girl, performed by Chloe Fineman, and her two kids are hiding.
“Look, stop calling me Papa in front of my real family,” Chappelle tells the children, earlier than he provides them cigarettes and tells them to “go live a good life.”
Chappelle then finds the household canine — solely to brutally lower him open to retrieve medication from contained in the pet.
Because the household prepares to depart their house, Nwodim will get one other alert that tells them the primary name was “a false alarm.”
In response, Chappelle begins clapping and tells his household they “passed my test.”
“No, you gotta leave,” Nwodim calls for. “I don’t even know you.”
“Okay fine. You see the cat? It’s got a page in its ass,” Chappelle replies.
Followers reacted to the wild skit within the YouTube feedback after the episode aired.
“Lorne really let this man do whatever LMFAOOOO this was by far the most insane skit I’ve seen on snl,” one fan wrote.
“One of the strongest sketches of the night i love how unhinged it was from get go,” one other fan stated.
A 3rd viewer wrote, “As an LA native who lived through this, this sketch is comedy GOLD!!!”
“Organized Chaos. This skit was just pure Organized Chaos andn PERFECT Comedic Timing,” another person commented.
“This one deserves an Emmy!” stated a distinct fan.
Chappelle additionally talked about the wildfires throughout his opening monologue, when he talked about how creator Lorne Michaels was making an attempt to e book him to seem on the present for an episode after the election, which he refused to do.
“The moment I said yes, L.A. burst into flames,” Chappelle stated whereas smoking a cigarette. “And it’s a tough one, you know what I mean, because I’m tired of being controversial, I’m trying to turn over a new leaf. And it is way too soon to be doing jokes about a catastrophe like that.”
Chappelle additionally poked enjoyable on the conspiracy theories about how the fires began.
“There’s just too many factors. If you were a rational-thinking person, you have to at least consider the possibility that God hates these people Sodomites!” he stated. “But that’s not true because West Hollywood was unscathed, because how can you burn what is already flaming?”
