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    Review: 'Saturday Night Live' brings back host Dave Chappelle to bookend four years of Trump

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Nov 09, 2020 6 minutes

    To host its first broadcast after the 2020 presidential election, "Saturday Night Live" chose Dave Chappelle, who hosted (and won an Emmy for doing so) the first broadcast after the 2016 presidential election. In the first instance, many viewers would have gone to the show for commiseration, for the kind of perspective that only comedy can offer. (I cannot swear that "SNL" viewership largely trends politically left, but given the content, it would but weird if it didn't.)

    This year, viewers would presumably have turned to NBC's late night mothership to cap a day of celebration — though Chappelle was no more ready to simply celebrate in 2020 than he was to simply castigate in 2016, when he closed his opening monologue saying, "I'm wishing Donald Trump luck, and I'm going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too."

    That Saturday's broadcast started late — due to a college football overtime — felt frustrating on this particular day, even to an irregular viewer. Comedy has been

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