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Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle looks on during Netflix's Canelo v Crawford Fight Night at Allegiant Stadium on September 13, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Steve Marcus/Getty Images/AFP)
October 4, 2025, 10:47 am
In Riyadh, Dave Chappelle jokes ‘I stand with Israel’ would signal he is being muzzled
Comedian decries censorship in US after Charlie Kirk killing, says he fears returning to America because ‘they’re going to do something to me so that I can’t say what I want to say’
By Grace Gilson
The comedian Dave Chappelle tells an extended anecdote about President Jimmy Carter's Middle East diplomacy during an appearance on 'Saturday Night Live' on January 18, 2025. (Screenshot)
January 21, 2025, 2:54 am
On ‘SNL,’ Dave Chappelle implores Trump to have empathy for Palestinians
Comedian’s monologue includes praise for Jimmy Carter’s visit to Palestinian areas; his jokes about ‘the Jews’ during 2022 appearance drew claims of antisemitism
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Comedian Dave Chappelle performs at Madison Square Garden during his 50th birthday celebration week on August 22, 2023, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
May 24, 2024, 6:36 am
Dave Chappelle tells Abu Dhabi audience that there’s a ‘genocide’ in Gaza
Comedian’s comments on Israel-Hamas war draw cheers, as he also says Americans should fight antisemitism so Jews there don’t feel they need Israel for protection
By Jon Gambrell
Dave Chappelle hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' November 12, 2022. (NBC Universal via JTA)
November 18, 2022, 6:54 pm
Jewish comedians weigh in on Chappelle’s controversial SNL monologue
Hannah Einbinder says skit was ‘littered with antisemitism’; Jon Stewart defends comedian, urges people to consider it ‘from a Black perspective’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
American film executives Jack Warner, left, and Louis Mayer right, together at a bar, 1940. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)
November 17, 2022, 9:17 am
The origins of Dave Chappelle’s antisemitic ‘Jews control Hollywood’ trope
The comedian, in riffing on recent controversies involving Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, wasn’t exactly breaking new ground by insinuating Jews run the movie industry
By Andrew Lapin
Dave Chappelle hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' November 12, 2022. (NBC Universal via JTA)
November 15, 2022, 1:33 am
ADL chief blasts Dave Chappelle monologue as ‘normalizing’ antisemitism
Jonathan Greenblatt says comedian’s SNL bit on Jews in Hollywood ‘diminishes, popularizes’ Jew-hatred, but most Jewish leaders refrain from weighing in on controversy
By ToI Staff and JTA
Dave Chappelle hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' November 12, 2022. (NBC Universal via JTA)
November 13, 2022, 6:01 pm
On SNL, Dave Chappelle mocks Kanye’s antisemitism while dancing along similar lines
In lengthy monologue on ‘the Jews,’ comedian says it’s ‘not a crazy thing to think’ that Jews run showbiz, suggests Jewish scapegoating of Black people for past trauma
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Dave Chappelle arrives at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 22nd Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington, October 27, 2019. (Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)
May 4, 2022, 4:30 pm
Dave Chappelle tackled onstage during standup routine
Security guards chase away assailant and overpower him, allowing comedian to continue with performance at Hollywood Bowl
By Agencies
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