Dave Chappelle reportedly switched his opening monologue for NBC’s Saturday Night Live prior to this weekend’s live broadcast, jettisoning a joke about an SNL staff writer who boycotted the episode in protest of the comedian.
Chappelle did a “fake” SNL monologue during the show’s dress rehearsal, and then switched his material for the live show, sources told the New York Post.
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“Dave does a fake monologue during the dress rehearsal, because he doesn’t want [SNL creator] Lorne Michaels, or anyone else, to know what his real monologue is,” one of the sources said, adding that Chappelle made a joke during rehearsal about a writer who refused to work with him on the week’s show.
Some SNL staff writers were reportedly so furious about Chappelle hosting the show that they boycotted the…
