Even Los Angeles isn’t safe from Dave Chappelle’s comedy.
The Emmy winner, 51, mocked the wildfire evacuations during his second skit hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend.
In the sketch, Chappelle plays the dad of a family that receives an alert telling them they have to flee their home due to the blaze.
But Chappelle shocks his wife, played by Ego Nwodim, and their son, played by Devon Walker, when he suddenly takes a sledgehammer to the wall to get $500,000 in cash and a counterfeit passport.
“Don’t worry about where I got my money. Ain’t no time to explain. Let’s just go!” Chappelle franticly tells his family.
The comedian also retrieves a gun and a thumb drive hidden behind a clock, as a man with a knife, played by Michael Longfellow, enters the room demanding the cash.
Chappelle “shoots” the man whose blood splatters all over the wall and on Walker.
Next, Chappelle opens a cabinet where a French woman, played by Chloe Fineman, and her two children are hiding.
“Look, stop calling me Papa in front of my real family,” Chappelle tells the kids, before he gives them cigarettes and tells them to “go live a good life.”
Chappelle then finds the family dog — only to brutally cut him open to retrieve drugs from inside the pet.
As the family prepares to leave their home, Nwodim gets another alert that tells them the first call was “a false alarm.”
In response, Chappelle starts clapping and tells his family they “passed my test.”
“No, you gotta leave,” Nwodim demands. “I don’t even know you.”
“Okay fine. You see the cat? It’s got a page in its ass,” Chappelle replies.
Fans reacted to the wild skit in the YouTube comments after the episode aired.
“Lorne really let this man do whatever LMFAOOOO this was by far the most insane skit I’ve seen on snl,” one fan wrote.
“One of the strongest sketches of the night i love how unhinged it was from get go,” another fan said.
A third viewer wrote, “As an LA native who lived through this, this sketch is comedy GOLD!!!”
“Organized Chaos. This skit was just pure Organized Chaos andn PERFECT Comedic Timing,” someone else commented.
“This one deserves an Emmy!” said a different fan.
Chappelle also mentioned the wildfires during his opening monologue, when he talked about how creator Lorne Michaels was trying to book him to appear on the show for an episode after the election, which he refused to do.
“The moment I said yes, L.A. burst into flames,” Chappelle said while smoking a cigarette. “And it’s a tough one, you know what I mean, because I’m tired of being controversial, I’m trying to turn over a new leaf. And it is way too soon to be doing jokes about a catastrophe like that.”
Chappelle also poked fun at the conspiracy theories about how the fires started.
“There’s just too many factors. If you were a rational-thinking person, you have to at least consider the possibility that God hates these people Sodomites!” he said. “But that’s not true because West Hollywood was unscathed, because how can you burn what is already flaming?”
