“Everybody calls me like, ‘You see Dave on “SNL”?’”
“Everybody calls me like, ‘You see Dave on “SNL”?’ And I say yes, we’re very good friends. I always watch and send nice texts,” Stewart said on Tuesday’s episode of
” ‘He normalized anti-Semitism with the monologue,’ ” Stewart went on. “I don’t know if you’ve been on comment sections on most news articles, but it’s pretty normal. It’s incredibly normal.”“But the one thing I will say is I don’t believe that censorship and penalties are the way to end anti-Semitism or to gain understanding,” he said. “I don’t believe in that. It’s the wrong way for us to approach it.”Stewart also said Chappelle’s speech had at least one good point.
“Dave said something in the ‘SNL’ monologue that I thought was constructive, which he says, ‘It shouldn’t be this hard to talk about things,’ ” he said. “Whether it be comedy or discussion or anything else, if we don’t have the wherewithal to meet each other with what’s reality, then how do we move forward?”
Jon Stewart came to the defense of his longtime friend Dave Chappelle after his “SNL” hosting gig on Nov. 12.
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