Michael Che’s Reaction To Elon Musk SNL Controversy, Regrets Not Ruining Colin Jost’s Wedding

It is in all probability been since Donald Trump was introduced as host of “Saturday Night time Stay” earlier than he ascended to the presidency {that a} host announcement has been met with such controversy, however Elon Musk now holds that honor.

Doubtless, the present may have extra eyes than normal on it. Definitely there was loads of scrutiny for the reason that announcement of forged reactions, with a number of notably making social media posts that would seem to counsel they don’t seem to be too thrilled about it.

Anybody who’s watched the present — and its “Weekend Replace” phase particularly — know that co-anchor Michael Che appears to thrive in that cringe area. He is actually been no stranger to inflicting controversy all on his personal with a few of his edgier jokes.

When Ellen DeGeneres requested him his ideas on the controversy, the co-head author (alongside fellow “Replace” anchor Colin Jost, Kent Sublette, and Anna Drezen), Che could not assist however to crack clever.

“Properly, I used to be all on board for it till I came upon that, like, do you know he is wealthy?” he requested Ellen facetiously. “Yeah, now I’m, like, towards it. I want they’d have advised me that earlier than.”

In the end, he would solely say, “It is gonna be attention-grabbing.” The general public response to no matter occurs could show much more attention-grabbing.

What Che appreciates, although — and that is one thing he is very comfortable about — is that the announcement did fire up a lot ardour. “It’s cool that folks care about who’s on the present. I feel that’s what makes it type of cool,” he stated. “The present’s been on for 46 years and folks nonetheless care about who’s being booked. I feel that’s type of dope.”

Whereas Elon Musk, who’s been soliciting “skit” concepts on-line for the previous a number of days, might be hoping to not damage the storied franchise, Che shared that he really regrets lacking out on his alternative to damage one thing else totally, Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson’s wedding ceremony.

A visitor there, Che shared that it had really been his intention to trigger an entire scene, in all probability formally objecting to the union. However when he received there, one thing occurred.

“I received there and it was, like, only a regular folks wedding ceremony,” he stated. “It seems they’re, like, really regular, and it was candy I used to be like, I can’t mess this wedding ceremony up. I simply allow them to have their day.”

Hilariously, although, not everybody was comfortable along with his resolution to allow them to have their day. Even higher, it was Jost’s mother and father.

“They have been like, ‘Hey, why didn’t you damage the marriage? I assumed you have been going to damage the marriage, you stated you have been going to damage the marriage.,'” Che recalled. “I used to be like, ‘You wished me to?’ They have been like, ‘Yeah,’ we have been wanting ahead to it.’”

“Now, I really feel like possibly I dropped the ball,” he lamented, wanting genuinely forlorn. And clearly his oversight into kindness has weighed on him a lot, he has plans to make issues proper. The answer lies in a lie he is carried on means too lengthy now.

Che has been joking eternally that he’d purchased this “actually, actually unhealthy” wedding ceremony present for Jost, leaving his co-anchor more and more harried over what it is likely to be, but it surely seems the entire thing was a lie. He really hadn’t purchased a present in any respect.

Now, although, Che feels he must go make the lie a actuality, and make it an actual doozy. “I didn’t damage his wedding ceremony — I really feel like I kinda let him down — so now I really feel like I gotta damage the wedding, possibly.”

Elon Musk joins musical visitor Miley Cyrus when “Saturday Night time Stay” returns for its three last episodes of Season 46 this weekend on NBC.