Dave Chappelle plays 7 roles at once in a Walking Dead-Chapelle Show crossover on SNL


Comedian Dave Chappelle decided to bring back not one Chappelle Show character but six in his Saturday Night Live debut this week. In a parody of The Walking Dead, Chappelle played a total of seven roles at once, Dead's Negan plus crack addict Tyrone Biggums, Lil' John, the blind, black, white supremacist Clayton Bigsby, and more.
Watch the pre-filmed skit below. Bonnie Kristian
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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