The stand-up also addresses his 2016 and 2020 hosting gigs in a newly-released video.
“I do remember the gravity of the week,” Chappelle says in the clip.
Meanwhile, theSNLwriters' room was going through its own emotional journey very much related to the election.
Dave Chappelle hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’.Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“It just had to do with I hadn’t done television in 12 years.
And the writers were on an involuntary strike,” the stand-up explains.
People were very emotionally connected to that particular election cycle in a way I’d never seen before.
Dave Chappelle.Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too."
So it was a life-changing night."
The comic says he’d been “reluctant” to come back.
And I’ve been watching the show recently.
“I’m nervous about it,” he continues, speaking before his 2020 set.
“As I always tell my friends, the beauty is in the attempt.
