-What's up? -What's up, Seth?
-Good to see you guys. -Hi.
-Hi. -Hi.
-You are bundled up, Michael Che.
-Yeah, man. I'm not used to this weather.
-Really? -I'm from the Island.
[ Laughter ]
Manhattan Island. -Yeah.
-You guys are actually both from the islands.
You're from the island of Manhattan.
-That's right.
-And you're from the island of Staten.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -Sounds just as tropical, right?
-Yeah. Well, they --
Now JetBlue goes direct to Staten Island, so...
-JetBlue has ferry service now.
I was gonna come out and wear --
I was gonna wear a Hawaiian shirt,
but he talked me out of it. -Really?
-And say that I was more dressing for the job I wanted.
-Oh, gotcha. -Versus this, but then he --
-And the job you wanted is "Magnum P.I."
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Why not? -What job do I want? Panhandler?
[ Laughter ]
I should be selling batteries on a D train.
-I was so -- You guys had a month off,
which is unheard of in my 10 years, which is --
-No, we never left. -You had a month off.
Did you enjoy yourselves? -Uh, yeah.
[ Laughter ] -Okay.
You didn't go anywhere.
-Yeah, I had to see a lot of family.
That wasn't fun. -Really?
-Yeah, 'cause, you know, they just tell me
who else they think is funny. -Oh, really?
I know -- I know what you're talking about.
-Yeah, that's not fun to hear. -Yeah.
Do you think that happens with athletes, like when --
-"You know who's fast?" and stuff like that.
-Yeah. Or like Eli Manning at, like,
Thanksgiving dinner, someone's like, "You know who's great?
Tom Brady." Like, do you think he --
[ Light laughter ] -100%.
-You think 100%.
-I mean, based on your own -- don't you think 100%?
Based on knowing any family. -I think they must.
-You know who says that to him is Peyton Manning.
-Peyton does, yeah. [ Laughter ]
As a super burn.
I had a lovely time.
I got to come back and host this year.
It was so fun to be back with you guys.
-Yeah, it was great. -Got to come back
on the "Update" desk, which was for me the highlight.
I'm not gonna call it a low light, but it was not --
in the end, did not turn out to be a highlight.
You wrote a sketch for me. -[ Laughing ] Yeah.
-I should point out, it was not new business.
-No, I wrote it probably about 12 years ago.
-And you resubmitted it for me, because --
-And I thought, "Only you could do this sketch."
-Well, I -- the actor you originally wrote it for
is someone that I think a lot of people mistake me for,
and so it made sense that you would try it again with me.
-Well, originally, it was Taylor Lautner.
[ Laughter ]
So I was like, "Who else is in sort of the 'Twilight' space?"
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. Same fan base.
-You read as a classic "Twilight."
-And I was there for that, so I knew,
"Oh, Jost submitted a Taylor Lautner sketch for me."
-Yeah. So, you're welcome.
-Do you want to explain the premise of Manny Manimal?
-Well, should we -- -Manny Manimal.
-Sure. -Manny Manimal.
-Manny Manimal. His name was Manny something.
He worked at the radioactive lab
where, like, Spider-Man had been bitten by a spider.
-Yeah, the radioactive spider. -So, this guy,
after he was bitten by the radioactive spider,
he was also bitten by a radioactive raccoon,
a starfish... -Yep.
[ Laughter ] -...a pelican...
-Yep. -...a couple snakes...
-Yep. -I think there were like
three squirrels?
-And then he died, and a gorilla had sex with his dead body.
-Yes. [ Audience groans ]
-Then brought him -- -And then he was revived
by a radioactive parrot. He was given CPR.
-And so, unlike Spider-Man -- -This isn't a real guy.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
Yeah, don't worry. -They're like, "Aww."
[ Laughter ]
-But anyways, then he is a superhero.
He was Manny Manimal, the man of many animals.
-Yes. [ Laughter ]
And you mentioned Emmy-nominated at the beginning, right?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Okay. Great, great.
-And also, so his name is Manny Manimal,
the man of many animals, but also his first name was Manny.
[ Laughter ] Which was unnecessary.
-Very unnecessary. -Yeah.
-I think I found that late in the writing process.
-One of the great costumes of all-time.
-Yes. -There you go.
-I mean... [ Laughter ]
-And I will say, great opening title sequence.
-Yeah. -Comes out in this.
Audience goes crazy. -Yeah.
-And then what would you describe the audience
for the rest of the sketch? -Nightmarish?
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Basically, they were so excited to see a real superhero,
and then you basically immediately started
coughing up blood, because that was the premise.
-Yeah. -That they were all --
-I had too many animal organs in my body.
-Yeah, and no one wanted to see 10 animals die.
-Yeah. Again, not real.
[ Laughter ]
But, yeah, it bummed people out.
But it was still fun to do, and now Lautner and I --
And we talk about it all the time.
-Oh, definitely. -Yeah, 'cause we hang out a lot.
-That dress audience talks about it all the time, too.