Even Los Angeles isn’t safe from Dave Chappelle’s comedy.
The Emmy winner, 51, mocked wildfire evacuations during his second sketch hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
In the sketch, Chappelle plays the father of a family who receives an alert telling them they need to flee their home because of the fire.
But Chappelle shocks his wife, played by Ego Nwodim, and their son, played by Devon Walker, when he suddenly hits the wall with a sledgehammer to obtain $500,000 in cash and a counterfeit passport.
“Don’t worry about where I got my money. Now is not the time to explain. Let’s go! » Chappelle frantically told his family.
The comedian also recovers a gun and a USB stick hidden behind a clock, while a man with a knife, played by Michael Longfellow, enters the room to demand money.
Chappelle “shoots” the man whose blood splatters all over the wall and Walker.
Then, Chappelle opens a cabinet where a French woman, played by Chloé Fineman, and her two children are hiding.
“Listen, stop calling me dad in front of my real family,” Chappelle tells the kids, before giving them cigarettes and telling them to “go live a good life.”
Chappelle then finds the family dog – only to roughly cut it open to retrieve drugs from inside the animal.
As the family prepares to leave their home, Nwodim receives another alert telling him that the first call was “a false alarm.”
In response, Chappelle begins clapping and tells his family that they “passed my test.”
“No, you have to leave,” demands Nwodim. “I don’t even know you.”
“Okay, fine. Do you see the cat? He has a page up his ass,” Chappelle replies.
Fans reacted to the wild skit in the YouTube comments after the episode aired.
“Lorne really let this man do anything. LMFAOOOO that was by far the craziest skit I’ve seen on snl,” one fan wrote.
“One of the strongest sketches of the night, I love how unhinged it was from the start,” said another fan.
A third viewer wrote: “As an LA native who lived through this, this sketch is comedy GOLD!!! »
“Organized chaos. This sketch was just pure organized chaos and PERFECT comedic timing,” someone else commented.
“This one deserves an Emmy!” » said another fan.
Chappelle also mentioned the wildfires during his opening monologue, when he explained how creator Lorne Michaels was trying to book him to appear on the show for an episode after the election, which he refused to do .
“The moment I said yes, Los Angeles caught fire,” Chappelle said while smoking a cigarette. “And that’s a tough question, you know what I mean, because I’m tired of being controversial, I’m trying to move on. And it is path it is too early to joke about such a catastrophe.
Chappelle also mocked conspiracy theories about how the fires started.
“There are just too many factors. If you are a rational thinking person, you should at least consider the possibility that God hates these Sodomites! he said. “But that’s not true because West Hollywood is unscathed, because how can you burn what’s already on fire?”
