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Dave Chappelle monologue disappoints on 'Saturday Night Live'

Chappelle's monologue seemed filled with justification and minimization.
Dave Chappelle tried to walk a difficult line on "Saturday Night Live" this week.

No one walks a rhetorical tightrope as deftly as Dave Chappelle.That thought nagged at me while watching Chappelle's widely-anticipated appearance last night on , where his guest-hosting stints after major electoral events have become something of a tradition.But Chappelle didn't devote much of his monologue to the midterm elections, even though news had broken earlier in the day that Democrats had

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