Sarah Silverman calls out Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue

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By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | December 1, 2022 | 53 Comments

In mid-November, a week after harshly condemning the growing antisemitism in American culture, Jon Stewart ended up taking it easy on his friend Dave Chappelle and his SNL monologue. While he did not deny the monologue was antisemitic, and while he did concede that it was “painful,” Stewart also suggested that it was good to get out in the open and have an honest conversation about it because it’s not like antisemitism is going away.

Another of Chappelle’s Jewish friends, Sarah Silverman, was not as willing to look past the insidiousness of that monologue. It took her two weeks to respond because she had her tonsils removed, but she did not mince words. Of Chappelle’s monologue, Silverman said that “it was hilarious, and brilliant, and winning, and charming and wildly antisemitic.”

“Most people who watched it, hating Jews was not their takeaway,” Silverman continued, “but I will tell you, Jews for the most part, were hypersensitive to it just like any minority will be keenly aware of the hatred and little aggressions against them. And there were a lot of Jewish jokes in there that were f**king hilarious, but that’s what made the antisemitism in it so scary. It bolstered it.”

She pointed to two instances in particular that she thought would “ignite more violence against Jews, which is a crazy and totally rational fear I have.” One was Chappelle’s suggestion that Jewish people were blaming the historical atrocities committed against them on Black people.

As to Chappelle’s observation that there are a “lot of Jews” in Hollywood, “Dave is right,” Silverman pointed out. “But Jews don’t run Hollywood. Jews invented Hollywood … because Jews were forbidden from working in most industries, so they made one up. They took nothing, and they made something.”