Comparing Dave Chappelle's 2016 and 2020 post-presidential election monologues

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/11/snl-dave-chappelles-post-election-blues/617040/

"After two elections involving Donald Trump, SNL has invited Chappelle to host, treating him like a moderator for our greater national reckoning, a comedian seasoned and blunt enough to broach sensitive matters of importance. Both times, he’s opened his set by pointing out that much ails America beyond the contentious election it just endured. His monologue on last night’s episode took plenty of jabs at Trump and his administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But the thrust of Chappelle’s comedy was wider and darker. He urged the audience to consider the grievances of millions of voters feeling abandoned or adrift in their own country, connecting those feelings to the lived experiences of generations of Black Americans. Chappelle barely mentioned president-elect Joe Biden at all. Instead, he built to an argument that no president can save America if Americans don’t want to save each other. Watching both of Chappelle’s SNL monologues, his consistency is all the more striking because the two episodes around them are so different. In 2016, after Trump’s victory, a mournful pall hung over the show. Kate McKinnon tearfully sang 'Hallelujah' in costume as Hillary Clinton, a bizarre spectacle that reflected the shell shock of the show’s writers and actors following Clinton’s loss. In 2020, the show winked at the strange self-seriousness of that earlier moment by having Alec Baldwin as Trump sit down at a piano to perform a somber version of the Village People’s 'Macho Man.' The rest of the episode was filled with typically upbeat, ridiculous material; on 'Weekend Update,' co-anchor Michael Che sipped a celebratory drink while reading his jokes."