Watch: Dave Chappelle Crashes 'SNL' Stage and Bowen Yang Isn't Excited

Transphobic comedian Dave Chappelle invited himself into the fold as the cast of "Saturday Night Live" was ending last Saturday's episode, and Bowen Yang was decidedly unimpressed.

"Chappelle, who has drawn considerable backlash from the LGBTQ+ community for what many perceive as transphobic jokes, had no on-screen role in Saturday's episode, which was hosted by Dakota Johnson and featured musical guest Justin Timberlake," Deadline reported.

"Shark Tank's Mark Cuban and Barbara Corcoran took part in a sketch and so were invited to the good night segment, as was Jimmy Fallon, who had joined Timberlake in their Bee Gees impersonations."

Chappelle invited himself to the moment, "seemingly to the surprise of the cast as much as the audience," AV Club relayed.

"Studio 8H is no stranger to the unexpected celebrity guest," AV Club added. "Dakota Johnson called attention to this pattern over the weekend in a bit from her monologue, in which she shared a photo of herself sitting in a star-studded audience during the show's 40th anniversary, alongside both Donald Trump and Taylor Swift."

"Her monologue was even 'crashed' by Fallon (who also showed up in a sketch with his old pal Timberlake later in the show), so it's not as though Chappelle's intrusion was totally unprecedented."

Even so, AV Club noted, Yang and fellow cast member Sarah Sherman "seemed visibly distraught when they realized Chappelle had joined the group on the other end of the stage."

"Yang, who is gay, stood unsmiling on the the far opposite side of the stage, his hands crossed at the waist and a distance of at least several feet from anyone else on stage until cast member Sarah Sherman walked over to him and seemed to engage in a brief conversation," Deadline narrated, describing the awkward moment. "After Yang said something to her, she craned her neck around to get a glimpse of Chappelle."

"As Sherman looked over at Chappelle, Yang looked into the audience and seemed to say, 'Oh,' at which point Sherman patted him on the back," Deadline added.

Chappelle's anti-trans jokes sparked shock and anger when Netflix aired his 2021 comedy special "The Closer." The backlash even saw some Netflix employees express their unhappiness.

But that hasn't slowed either Netflix or Chappelle, who made the response to his transphobic material fodder for his latest special, "The Dreamer," on the streamer.

As previously reported, Chappelle seemingly couldn't wait to start in on trans people again in "The Dreamer." Variety reported at the time of the special's premiere that in the opening minutes of the set Chappelle went right back to mining transphobic material, taking aim at a community that's already been through the wringer with years of punitive legislative assaults on their personal and medical rights.

The jokes came after Chappelle declared that he was "tired of talking about" trans people, and were followed by a cringey joke about "handicapped" people, Variety reported.

Not long afterwards, Chappelle was back to working the same angle, reaching for payoffs that took aim at "white liberals" as well as transgender prison inmates.

After saying that he is "trying to repair my relationship with the transgender community," Chappelle claimed to have authored a theater work "about a Black transgender woman whose pronoun is" the N-word.

"It's a tear-jerker," Chappelle added, going on to say that the main character "dies of loneliness cause white liberals don't know how to speak to her."

AV Club said that Saturday's interaction wasn't "the first time Yang and Sherman have come into contact with Chappelle."

"The comedian has hosted SNL three times – most recently in 2022 – an appearance which also caused a good deal of backlash." The writeup noted that, according to at least one report, some of the shows writers refused to work on the Chappelle-hosted episode. The cast all carried on with the show, but, the report said, "Yang, Sherman, and Molly Kearney, a featured player who identifies as non-binary, were 'notably absent' from that night's goodbye segment."