Dave Chappelle makes a rare media appearance to have a conversation with his longtime friend Mo Amer.
When Amer was invited to participate in Actors on Actors, he suggested Chappelle as a conversation partner. And Chappelle — who hosted “SNL” this year and hasn’t given interviews since he became the subject of controversy for his jokes mocking transgender people in his 2021 Netflix special “The Closer” — agreed, flying to Los Angeles from Ohio.
Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer became close during the pandemic, when Chappelle managed to secure a COVID testing machine and created a bubble at his Ohio home to bring in comedians to perform. Amer was one of them. Those early comedy shows were held in a cornfield, while the comedians were tested every day. But beyond that, Amer was mostly holed up in his Airbnb as he started writing Season 1 of “Mo,” his critically acclaimed Netflix series, which wrapped this year after two seasons. The two also discuss Chappelle’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ monologues, the time Amer ran into Eric Trump on a plane, and the unexpected timeliness of ‘Mo’.