As the co-head writer of Saturday Night Live and half of its “Weekend Update” team, Michael Che gets plenty of laughs — while also taking frequent heat for his provocative comedy. Raise…
There are a lot of comedy moves that are available. A lot of times, [other comedians] start to trip over one another. It’s a rush to the rest of that morality punchline. My favorite comedians that did this job were Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn. I liked guys that no matter what you believed, you knew that door is going to come swinging at you at some point. I can only make fun of you because I’m willing to make fun of what I believe, too.
I think that the diversity of the show is really cool, man. When I first got there, I was the only Black writer. And Kenan Thompson and Jay Pharoah were the only Black castmembers. Now it’s a completely different room to try to make laugh. When we have those table reads, there’s a lot more people of color, a lot more people with different orientations. Ego Nwodim had one of my favorite sketches of the year.
You take people on, on a one-on-one basis — critics and Twitter trolls and stuff. What’s your philosophy about that?
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