Four years ago, with Democrats reeling from President Donald Trump's unexpected victory, comedian Dave Chappelle made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut, mocking white people for electing an Internet troll as president and ultimately urging people to give Trump a chance despite his hateful rhetoric. Following Joe Biden's victory, Chappelle returned to SNL again this weekend to create a fitting bookend to the Trump era.

While the election results took days to tabulate, SNL was only briefly pre-empted last night because of college football, with the show not starting until almost midnight. The Biden Victory Cold Open showed that the writers and crew were rewriting the sketch up to the last minute, with direct quotes from and references to Biden & Kamala Harris' victory speech from just a few hours earlier in the evening (they even nailed Harris' white suit). Alec Baldwin's Trump appeared to sing a sad piano rendition of "Macho Man," and the whole thing culminated in Jim Carrey giving up on his bad Biden impression to call Trump a "loser" a la Ace Ventura.

Dave Chappelle Stand-Up Monologue was the longest part of the night, with Chappelle—signature lit cigarette in hand—getting over 16 minutes to soberly reflect on the election and the state of America, and also make some incredibly provocative jokes about what the hell has been going on this year. It was compelling and risky, even if the more sobering bits about his grandfather, racism and the "kindness conspiracy" were far better than some of the more confrontational punchlines—something he himself acknowledged, saying, "I can’t even tell something true without a punchline behind it."

Chappelle is a masterful storyteller now, and someone who captured the mood of the nation better than anyone this past spring with his remarkable and raw 8:46 special, but some of last night's riffs felt more like works-in-progress, a messy attempt to summarize a surreal year that isn't quite over (and comments like "did I trigger you?" are going to age very quickly). But his perspective on racism and white America, and his call for empathy from everyone, ring true as much as anything he's ever said.

Then we got Uncle Ben, the best sketch of the night, which felt as close to a classic Chappelle's Show bit as we will ever get. The concept—Aunt Jemima (Maya Rudolph) and Uncle Ben (Kenan Thompson) have to their defend their jobs—seemed like a perfect Chappelle riff, and the sketch just got better and better as it went along, adding Chappelle's deep-voiced Allstate Guy and Pete Davidson's ridiculous Count Chocula, culminating in the hilarious line, “Seriously, America: Look at Pete Davidson’s lips.”

Chappelle was MIA for the next couple sketches, including Super Mario 35th Anniversary, which straddled the line between unbelievably puerile and sublimely stupid, and was all about Kyle Mooney's poor nuts. After the one-two punch of Chappelle's monologue and "Uncle Ben," I was happy the show gave us something this silly, even though it was 100% NOT for everyone.

However, I unequivocally loved Take Me Back, a showcase for Beck Bennett (and Ego Nwodim) with absolutely perfect comic timing and editing.

Hailstorm was an unexpectedly charming and sweet character sketch about two friends (Kenan Thompson and Kate McKinnon) who end up becoming something more than friends during a storm.

Chappelle's only other sketch appearance of the night came in DC Morning, which felt like another perfect Chappelle's Show idea: Trump in OJ's white Bronco being chased by police. The only downside is that the sketch felt half-completed, like they didn't quite have time to flesh it out.

We all know that Kate McKinnon (along with Kenan Thompson and maybe Cecily Strong) is one of the alpha performers in this current iteration of SNL, someone who can handle impressions and character work and physical comedy with equal mastery. At this point, her rabid impression of an unhinged Rudy Giuliani might be the best in her arsenal, so it was wonderful getting him talking complete nonsense about strategies for Trump's election lawsuits on Weekend Update.

Musical guest Foo Fighters unveiled their new single "Shame Shame" and pulled out an appropriate "Times Like These" with a cool arrangement.

After six straight weeks of episodes, SNL is giving its cast and crew a week off next weekend. As Alec Baldwin put it at the end of last night's episode, "You're welcome."