Dave Chappelle Reflects on Being Excluded from Diddy’s ‘Freakoffs’ in Outrageous SNL Monologue

In his highly anticipated return to Saturday Night Live, Dave Chappelle humorously mentioned that he didn’t make the cut for Diddy’s rumored parties because he considered himself ‘too ugly.’

The 51-year-old comic’s appearances on the show have drawn controversy and headlines since his monologue after Trump won in 2016.

Chappelle’s comedic set did not disappoint, touching on a wide range of subjects including Donald Trump, the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

During his performance, Chappelle didn’t hold back when addressing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who is facing allegations of sex trafficking following his arrest in September. Despite pleading not guilty, Combs is currently in custody awaiting trial on May 5, as his bail requests have been denied by three different judges.

‘I’ve been in trouble in my day but let me tell you, this guy, Puffy… this guy Puffy is in an enormous amount of trouble, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this. They’ve got this guy in a RICO case by himself!

Chappelle claimed he’d never been invited to any of the alleged ‘freakoffs’ Diddy held and came to a realization. 

Dave Chappelle hilariously joked that he was ‘too ugly’ to be invited to Diddy ‘s alleged ‘freakoffs’ in his grand return to Saturday Night Live this weekend

Diddy, aka Sean Combs, has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges lodged against him after his September arrest

‘I thought about it, I said oh my God… I’m ugly. Everyone in Hollywood had an orgy behind your back and none of y’all called me? That really hurts!’ 

He changed his mind, saying that he was not ugly but rather, ‘I have snitch energy. I look like I’ll tell. The last thing you wanna see at the orgy is me looking across at you.’

Chappelle – at one point joking that he was ‘tired of being controversial’ and hoping to ‘turn over a new leaf’ – ended his set to open the NBC show discussing Trump, saying: ‘He’ll be the 47th president, he’s done it again.’

While sitting on a stool and smoking a cigarette, Chappelle initially joked in a 17-minute monologue that the only reason he agreed to host Saturday Night Live again was to burn off old Trump jokes. 

The comedian relayed an anecdote about the late President Jimmy Carter going to Palestine with minimal security while Chappelle was visiting the Middle East.

Chappelle went on an infamous hiatus from comedy and quit his popular Comedy Central show in 2004 and visited various places around the world afterward, including Africa and the Middle East.

‘I will never forget the images of a former American president walking with no security with thousands of Palestinians cheering him on and when I saw that picture, it brought tears to my eyes. I said I don’t know if that’s a good president but that right there, I am sure, is a great man. It made me feel very proud,’ he said.

He added that ‘the presidency is no place for petty people,’ then addressed Trump and the rest of the nation, joking that ‘I know you watch the show.’ 

The 51-year-old comic’s appearances on the show have drawn controversy and headlines since his monologue after Trump won in 2016 

His latest offering was certain to be no exception, as he riffed on topics ranging from Donald Trump to the Los Angeles fires to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The comic sent a message to the president ahead of his inauguration on Monday

To Trump and America, Chappelle said: ‘Man, remember whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counting on you. Whether they like you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is counting on you. I mean this when I say this, good luck. Do better next time. Please, all of us, do better next time.’ 

‘Do not forget your humanity and please have empathy for displaced people whether they’re in the Palisades or Palestine,’ he concluded to heavy applause.  

Earlier, Chappelle had what he said were admittedly ‘too soon’ laughs about the wildfires, saying that ‘the moment I said yes’ to SNL, ‘LA burst into flames.’

He said that despite the fact that he’s never lived in the city, it hits close to home and cited several famous friends who’d lost their homes. 

‘Then I go on the internet and I watch these fire videos and the comments all say it serves these celebrities right, I hope their houses burn down,’ he said.

‘You see that? That right there? That’s why I hate poor people,’ Chappelle joked. ‘They can’t see past their own pain!’ 

He riffed on how Los Angeles’ wildfires would be the most expensive natural disaster in American history, joking that ‘it’s because people in LA have nice stuff. I could burn 40,000 acres of Mississippi for like $600-700.’

While sitting on a stool and smoking a cigarette, Chappelle initially joked that the only reason he agreed to host Saturday Night Live again was to burn off old Trump jokes

At one point, he dismissed the conspiracy theories about the fire, only to say: ‘If you were a rational thinking person, you have to at least consider the possibility that God hates these people. It’s a lotta whites!’

He then joked about one of the area’s LGBTQ-friendly communities, saying that God can’t have possibly do this ‘because West Hollywood was unscathed, because how can you burn what is already flaming.’

Chappelle, who lives in Ohio, then talked about this past summer’s controversy concerning Haitian migrants in the city of Springfield, which Chappelle lives one town over from. 

He said that Trump’s speculation that ‘they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats’ made him ‘crazy.’

Chappelle claimed that these Haitians had come they’re legally and ‘they did jobs the whites weren’t doing. It’s not that the whites couldn’t do these jobs but they were doing other things: heroin, sleeping on the streets.’

Then he said, in hopes he could be supportive, he spent 10 days eating his lunch each day at a Haitian restaurant in Springfield ‘to let them know if I’m safe here, you guys are definitely safe here.’

‘To be honest with you, I don’t know what that meat was,’ he said with a wry smile. ‘But whatever it was, it fell right off the bone I’ll tell you that.’ 

He joked that he might leave Ohio along with the Haitians because ‘its just no fun being famous anymore.’

Sarah Sherman plays Rachel Maddow in a sketch about MSNBC on Saturday Night Live

SNL mocked MSNBC’s reliance on Trump in their news coverage in a cold opening sketch

Chappelle has largely been out of the limelight for the past year or so but has still remained a controversial figure.

In 2023, he sparked a walkout during a show in Boston after slamming Israel for its ‘war crimes’ against Palestinians. 

Earlier in January, woke comedian Michelle Buteau slammed Chappelle and accused him of profiting from ‘dangerous’ transgender jokes that ‘make people feel unsafe’. 

His most recent special, The Dreamer, was released in 2023, the last of multi-million dollar contract with Netflix which he referenced on the SNL stage. 

Earlier in the show, SNL mocked MSNBC’s reliance on Trump in their news coverage in a cold opening sketch.