Dave Chappelle did a “fake” “Saturday Night Live” monologue during the show’s dress rehearsal, sources said, and then switched his material for the live show.
A source told Page Six: “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.”
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The source added that Chappelle made a joke during the dress rehearsal about a writer who refused to work with him this week on the show. …
But an insider told Page Six that the joke Chappelle made about the objecting writer during the rehearsal “caused tensions to flare.” Either way, the comedian then switched up his monologue for the actual NBC live show.
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