Comic Dave Chappelle was named the primary host of “Saturday Night time Dwell” in 2025.
NBC shared the information on Friday whereas additionally asserting that actor Timothée Chalamet will host the next week in addition to carry out as a musical visitor. The community additionally introduced a February anniversary particular.
Dave Chappelle and “Saturday Night time Dwell” will return to NBC on Jan. 18.
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Dave Chappelle Makes His Return To ‘SNL’ In 2025
NBC introduced that Dave Chappelle can be the primary host of “Saturday Night time Dwell” with a press release on Jan. 10.
“Dwell from New York, ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’ is kicking off 2025 with two famous person Hosts and Musical Visitors you will not need to miss,” mentioned the NBC announcement. “Because the present celebrates its landmark 50 years on NBC, Season 50 has already featured 10 wonderful Hosts — and it is enlisted two returning Hosts to kick off the second half of this cycle.”
“Dave Chappelle hosts the primary 2025 episode of ‘Saturday Night time Dwell’ on January 18. The Emmy-winning slapstick comedian and actor, who has hosted post-election episodes in previous years (most lately in November 2022), will come again to Studio 8H on January 18. This shall be his fourth flip as Host.”
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GloRilla Will Carry out As Musical Visitor
The NBC announcement additionally named rapper GloRilla because the musical visitor for Chappelle’s episode. The primary episode of 2025 would be the recording artist’s “SNL” debut.
“GloRilla will make her SNL debut because the episode’s Musical Visitor,” learn the announcement. “The multi-platinum-selling rapper can be a Grammy nominee, receiving two nods for her hit single “Yeah Glo!”
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Timothée Chalamet Will Host And Carry out As ‘SNL’ Musical Visitor
“Dune” star Timothée Chalamet will host “SNL” in 2025 as a musical visitor. The 29-year-old actor is at present starring as musician Bob Dylan within the movie, “A Full Unknown.”
“On January 25, ‘A Full Unknownstar’ Timothée Chalamet returns for a 3rd stint as SNL host,” learn the assertion. “The actor performs singer-songwriter Bob Dylan within the movie, although there is not any phrase but on what Chalamet shall be singing — or rapping? — in Studio 8H.”
The assertion continued, “The Dune star can be set to make his debut because the episode’s Musical Visitor, placing him on the spectacular record of ‘double obligation’ celebrities who’ve been Host and Musical Visitor in the identical episode.”
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Different celebrities who hosted “SNL” whereas additionally performing as musical visitors embody Paul Simon, Lily Tomlin, Ray Charles and Dolly Parton, Sting, Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones and extra.
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Dave Chappelle Was Nominated For A Grammy
NBC additionally famous within the announcement that Chappelle was nominated for a Grammy Award for his Netflix particular, “Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer.” The 51-year-old is a nominee for Greatest Comedy Album for his comedy particular on the 67th Annual Grammy Awards
“His newest particular, ‘Dave Chappelle: The Dreamer,’ is nominated for a Grammy Award for Greatest Comedy Album,” learn the announcement.
Chappelle received a Grammy Award final yr for Greatest Comedy Album for his particular, “Dave Chappelle: What’s In A Title?” The comic additionally received Greatest Comedy Album for “Dave Chappelle: The Nearer” on the sixty fifth Annual Grammy Awards the earlier yr.
The Comic’s Jokes About Trans Landed Him In Sizzling Water
“The Dreamer” made headlines after many condemned jokes he made about trans folks throughout the particular. The comic informed one trans joke whereas telling the story about assembly fellow comic Jim Carrey on the set of “Man within the Moon.”
Carrey performed the late comic Andy Kaufman biopic the strategy actor stayed in character throughout the assembly. Chappelle mentioned he was grateful to have witnessed Carrey’s inventive transformation however upset.
“In hindsight, how f-cking fortunate am I?” mentioned Chappelle. “That I obtained to see one of many best artists of my time immersed in one in all his most difficult processes ever? Very fortunate to have seen that, however because it was taking place, it was very disappointing.”
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He continued, “I wished to satisfy Jim Carrey and I needed to fake this n—a was Andy Kaufman. All afternoon, he was clearly Jim Carrey. I might have a look at him and I might see he was Jim Carrey. Anyway, I say all that to say, that is how trans folks make me really feel.”
In Chappelle’s 2021 particular, “The Nearer,” the comic claimed that he would not inform any extra trans jokes in reference to the backlash he obtained from jokes he informed in one other particular, “Dave Chappelle: Sticks and Stones.”
“I’m not f-cking with these folks anymore. It wasn’t definitely worth the hassle. I ain’t saying sh-t about them. Perhaps three or 4 occasions tonight, however that’s it,” he joked. “I’m uninterested in speaking about them.”
“To be trustworthy with you, I’ve been making an attempt to restore my relationship with the transgender neighborhood, ‘trigger I don’t need them to suppose that I don’t like them,” he continued. “You know the way I’ve been repairing it? I wrote a play. I did. Trigger I do know that gays love performs,” he joked. “It’s a really unhappy play, nevertheless it’s shifting. It’s a couple of Black transgender lady whose pronoun is, sadly, n—-a. It’s a tear-jerker. On the finish of the play she dies of loneliness trigger white liberals don’t know find out how to communicate to her. It’s unhappy.”
