Jerry Seinfeldis speaking out aboutDave Chappelle’sopening monologueonSaturday Night Live.
“I did thinkthe comedy was well-executed,” he toldThe Hollywood Reporter. “But I think the subject matter calls for a conversation that I don’t think I’d want to have in this venue.”
The Comedians in Cars Getting Coffeestar reiterated his point when asked if the monologue made him “uncomfortable.”
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“It provokes a conversation which hopefully is productive,” he added.
Seinfeld also noted that he doesn’t consider Chapelle, 49, to be a dear friend, saying, “I don’t have a close relationship with him. We’re friends and it’s not a close relationship.”
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Chappelle said that there are “two words in the English language that you should never say together in sequence: ‘The’ and ‘Jews.'”
“I’ve been to Hollywood and — no one get mad at me — I’m just telling you what I saw,” he said. “It’s a lot of Jews. Like a lot. But that doesn’t mean anything! You know what I mean? Because there are a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri, it doesn’t mean we run the place.”
Chappelle also said that a “delusion that Jews run show business” is “not a crazy thing to think,” but “it’s a crazy thing to say out loud.”
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“It shouldn’t be this scary to talk about anything,” Chappelle said. “It’s making my job incredibly difficult. And to be honest with you, I’m sick of talking to a crowd like this. I love you to death and I thank you for your support. And I hope they don’t take anything away from me… whoever they are.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Jewish civil rights organization, shared his thoughts about the monologue via social media on Sunday.
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“We shouldn’t expect@DaveChappelleto serve as society’s moral compass, but disturbing to see@nbcsnlnot just normalize but popularize #antisemitism,” hewrote. “Why are Jewish sensitivities denied or diminished at almost every turn? Why does our trauma trigger applause?”
Others joined in to express concern and share their analysis of Chappelle’s monologue. InfluencerRabbi Josh Yuterwrote that “the key point” of the monologue was that “there are double standards regarding who can say what about whom.”
source: people.com
