Live cold open saw James Austin Johnson returning as Donald Trump, two days before the inauguration, this time talking about the TikTok ban. About an hour before the show aired, TikTok really did go dark as a new U.

After that, the show will take another break before returning in mid-February, when it will have a new episode that will be followed a Sunday night live broadcast of “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” on Feb. 16.

Dave Chappelle shared a powerful message during his opening monologue on the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Donald Trump has had a rocky relationship with NBC's “Saturday Night Live, ” the sketch-comedy show he accused of orchestrating “ Republican hit jobs ” during his first presidential term. But many "SNL" cast and crew members believed they helped get him elected.

And it was “not because it portrayed him as heartless," according to The New Yorker's profile of the show's creator Lorne Michaels.

Ahead of Inauguration Day on Monday, President-elect Donald Trump is holding a reception and fireworks show Saturday night at his golf club in Virginia. On Sunday, he will lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery and then hold a "Make America Great Again Victory Rally" in Washington ahead of Monday's swearing-in ceremony,

After performing an extended stand-up set where he made jokes about Sean "Diddy" Combs and other topics, Chappelle shared an emotional story about a moment when former President Jimmy Carter inspired him. He used this story to make a plea to president-elect Donald Trump ahead of his inauguration on Monday.

Dave Chappelle teases Trump over being ‘petty’ before wishing him ‘good luck’ - Before the president-elect’s win, comedian said he wanted to host the show to get rid of his Trump jokes

The comedian spoke about the Los Angeles wildfires and Carter's visit to Palestine before turning to the president-elect in his "SNL" opening monologue.

Stand-up comic Dave Chappelle returned to Saturday Night Live this week as host, and he took the opportunity to get a few things off his chest. In a sprawling, 16-minute monologue, Chappelle admitted from the start: “I’m in quite the pickle tonight.