-Thank you so much for joining us in studio, buddy.
It's always good to see you.
Have you been able to move into the new house yet?
-Yeah, man. This is my first, like, time
living in an actual house, and it's scary.
[ Laughter ]
-Wait. What do you mean? Because you're used to what?
Apartments? -Well, I'm used to noise,
I'm used to, like, ambulances and fire trucks and all that.
[ Laughter ] -That calms you down?
-Yeah! This is, like, scary
when you hear just your house make noise.
[ Laughter ]
There's like this ice maker in the fridge thing or whatever,
and every time, in the middle of the night,
when it's very still -- [ Audience member groans ]
-You know what I'm talking about, right?
[ Cheers ]
I always think I'm being robbed by, like, The Three Stooges.
[ Laughter ]
It sounds like someone falling down the stairs every time.
It's scary.
-You're being robbed by The Three Stooges.
-Yeah, it's always loud and clumsy.
-[ Laughs ] -But it's cool, it's cool.
-Congratulations, bud. I'm so happy for you.
Last time you were on the show, you were here with Colin Jost,
and then, a few weeks later, he got married.
-Allegedly.
[ Laughter ]
-Now, don't say that.
-I still don't buy it, man. -You were --
-He married Scarlett Johansson! How's that possible? What?
[ Laughter and applause ]
I don't think she knows she's Scarlett Johansson.
[ Laughter ]
-Last time, you were saying that you were gonna make a speech --
-I wanted to. I wanted to, like, interrupt the wedding.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
So if somebody said, "Does anyone object with this?"
you were gonna stand up and do your speech
and ruin his wedding. -Yeah.
-Did you? -No, I didn't.
Well, I had all these -- I wanted to.
I didn't have the courage. -Yeah, good.
Smart. -I had all of these pictures
of The Rock that I was gonna send her, and be like,
"You could marry The Rock." [ Laughter ]
I still don't believe it. I still think, at some point,
this is just, like, one long Sacha Baron Cohen bit.
[ Laughter ]
-You guys are great on "Weekend Update" together.
I do love this one bit you do
where you make Colin read jokes that you wrote.
-Yeah. -And he makes you read --
I mean, this is the best thing I've ever seen.
-Yeah, we call it "Joke Swap." -A joke swap.
But I mean like, this -- How did that start?
-It was actually his idea, which was kind of funny,
because I thought he was trying to prank me.
See, I'm paranoid. [ Laughter ]
-I think everything's a prank.
Right now, I think this is all a prank.
But he was like, "Hey, why don't we do something
where, like, you write jokes for me,
I write jokes for you, and we don't know
till we get on air?"
And I'm like, "Oh, you trying to set me up."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-So I started thinking of, like, some really racist things
for him to say, 'cause I'm like...
[ Laughter ] ..."You not gonna get me.
You gonna catch some fire coming in the door."
-Yeah, of course. -And then we got on the air,
and a lot of his jokes are kind of tame.
-And just nice, and all yours are --
-And all of mine was just, like, about Rosa Parks.
[ Laughter ]
I was like, "Oh, oh, okay. That's one way to do it."
-Oh, my -- I mean, dude, his face,
you could just see him sweating.
-It was bright red, and Black people loved it.
It's awesome. [ Laughter ]
-It was just announced that Elon Musk
is gonna host "SNL" May 8th.
Are you -- With Miley Cyrus, by the way.
-Yeah, no, it's gonna be great.
-That's a big show. Are you excited to meet him?
-I am excited to meet him. I don't know if he knows,
like -- usually, like, we have this tradition --
I don't know, I think it's in the book or whatever --
but at "Saturday Night Live," it's customary for hosts
to give, like, a couple million dollars to the cast members.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Wow. -Yeah, I don't know if he's --
if he's a cool guy, maybe he'll...
-Keep up that tradition. -Yeah, maybe.
-Yeah, that's so smart. See, that's smart, yeah.
-He's going to Mars, man. He doesn't need all that money.
-Would you ever go to space? -No, not on purpose.
[ Laughter ]
-Wait. How would you get there on accident?
-I don't know. -Go to L.A., next thing
you're like, "Wait. Is that Earth?"
[ Laughter ] -No, yeah, I don't know.
I wouldn't. Would you?
-I thought about it. No.
-If the richest man in the world is going, would you go?
-No. -Okay.
-I'd go maybe, like, the year after
the richest man in the world. [ Light laughter ]
-I'll go when they build a CVS there.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Until that, no. -Yeah, until they have a CVS,
I don't trust it.
-I want to talk about this show on HBO Max.
I'm so psyched that you made this.
It's called "That Damn Michael Che."
-Yeah. -Which is so funny
even just saying that title, because the audience was like,
"Why would you say that about Michael Che?"
-That's why I like it! Because it could go either way.
It could be like, "Man, that damn Michael Che is funny,"
or it could be, "That damn Michael Che."
[ Laughter ]
I like the kind of weight of it.
-It's great. What is it like?
What do you compare it to?
-I wanted to call it "That Black-Ass Michael Che."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, okay, yeah.
-But HBO said no. -No, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-Is it sketch? Is it stand-up?
What is it? -It's like loose kind of jokes.
-Yeah. -And then there's also
some sketches. And it's just fun, you know?
It's like six episodes.
[ Laughter ]
-I want everyone to watch.
-Yeah, I want everybody to watch it.
Please, watch it! It's fun.
-Make sure you get on this. [ Cheers and applause ]
HBO, HBO Max. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Michael Che... -You got a clip?
-...in his new show -- Yeah, you got a clip.
You never come on with a clip.
-No, it's so weird to be out here to promote something.
-Yeah, you never are. -No, I'm not.
I'm just hanging out with you. -Wait. This is history.
We're actually throwing to a clip.
-Yeah, this is crazy. [ Cheers and applause ]
-This is a big deal.
-I'm on the "The Tonight Show," going to a clip.
-Yeah. Here's Michael Che
in his new show, "That Damn Michael Che."
Take a look. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I just want to say I'm sorry.
-Oh, it's -- it's cool. I could barely smell it.
-What? Oh, no, not that.
Um, I mean, I'm sorry for everything
going on in the country.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
With the police shootings and all the injustices.
And for white privilege.
-This thing even move yet?
-I'm an ally, obviously, so I'm not trying to be weird.
-Think it's supposed to light up if it's moving.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Stuck on an elevator. [ Laughs ]
Michael Che, everybody! All episodes of
"That Damn Michael Che" are streaming May 6th on HBO Max.