-Welcome back to the show.
I appreciate every time you come.
-I've always wanted to drink water here.
[ Laughter ]
You always see, like, the cup
but I don't ever see anybody drink.
And I always wanted to just have a little sip of water.
-Yeah. I have to ask you,
because we talked about this last time.
You now have a house. -Yes.
-And last time we talked, you thought --
you had an ice maker and you thought
the Three Stooges were burglaring your house.
And it made me laugh. But you have a house.
How is it? And I heard that Questlove
helped you decide to move Upstate?
-That's true. He did.
I was looking for a house, and I was looking
out in some town that I shouldn't have been in.
[ Light laughter ]
And he was like, "You need to look where I'm at."
And I looked up there, and it's quite nice.
I do enjoy it. It's good water.
[ Laughter ]
I'm not used to having neighbors, though.
Like, even still, I've never seen you before,
like, in the neighborhood. -i have yet to move in.
[ Laughter ]
-So you sent me to a neighborhood
that you don't even live in?
[ Laughter and applause ]
-I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet.
-Yeah, so I'm, like, the guinea pig
for the neighborhood, now? [ Laughter ]
-Do you like it? -It's crazy, though.
Like, when I first got there,
some lady, like, brought me bread.
[ Light laughter ]
She knocked on the door and was like,
"I'm your neighbor. Here's some bread."
-That's so nice.
-Trying to poison me or something.
-No, Upstate, that's not what they do.
-If you're watching this, ma'am,
I punted your bread over two fences.
[ Laughter ]
-You're too paranoid. She was being neighborly.
-No, man, I've lived in apartments
in New York City my whole life.
I've never met one neighbor.
[ Laughter ] Not one person.
We don't make eye contact. We're nice people that way.
Suburbs, I don't trust it. -I want to ask about Colin Jost,
your "Weekend Update" co-anchor.
You guys are fantastic together, by the way.
Congrats on a great season. -Oh, stop.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-He just had a baby. -That's true.
Well, Scarlett did. -Scarlett had the baby, yeah.
Have you met the baby? -I have, man.
What a cute kid. But babies are --
they're fun for, like, a second. [ Laughter ]
You know, they don't do much after you've looked at them.
And they're just staring at you,
trying to keep their head on straight.
-Oh, yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Get this wiggly thing away from me.
But, no, it's, like, an adorable baby.
It's Colin and Scarlett's baby together.
-Are you going to babysit? Has he asked you yet?
-I don't like babysitting, man.
I'm actually a really good babysitter, though,
if you guys are interested. [ Light laughter ]
I'm a great babysitter.
I've been babysitting my whole life.
I have nieces and nephews
that's like three years younger than me.
-Oh, really? -I've been babysitting them
since they were babies. Since I was a baby, actually.
-Yeah, Were you a good babysitter?
-I was a great babysitter, man.
I just let you cry until you're sleepy.
[ Laughter ]
-Now, "Michael Che: Shame the Devil."
This is your stand-up special on Netflix.
-I'm excited. You know, right about now,
I just feel like what the world needs is
more stand-up comedy on Netflix. [ Laughter ]
Something that everyone can agree on.
-Yeah, yeah.
I love the name "Shame the Devil."
I've never heard that term before.
-Never? You don't got, like, a black aunt?
[ Laughter ]
"Shame the Devil" is a very -- it's something that, you know,
like, church ladies say.
They say, "Tell the truth, shame the devil,
'cause the devil is a liar." No one has ever heard this
before? -No, I mean, I haven't.
-The Roots are shaking their head, "Yes, absolutely."
[ Laughter ] "Shame the devil."
-So, you're just kind of just telling the truth?
-I'm trying to. But as much as I can, you know.
-Yeah, you're a great comic, man.
-Let's not... -Where did you film it?
-In Oakland. Oakland, California.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-A lot of Oakland fans here. What's it like backstage
when you're on the road? Do you have a rider?
Do you have -- What do you have in the room?
-I'm fascinated with riders.
Like, I don't really have a rider.
I usually just ask for, like, chicken fingers and M&M's
because that's just my life right now.
But I'm fascinated with other people's riders.
Like, I'm always like -- Anytime there's a performer,
like, before me, I'm like, "What did they have
in their rider?" And then, like, they tell me.
Like, some performers -- one comedian --
I won't say his name, but he asked for,
like, white sneakers before every show.
Brand-new white sneakers. They got to buy them
before every show. -Can you do that?
-Apparently, yeah. [ Light laughter ]
Isn't that the coolest thing? You do it, too?
-i do it with T-shirts and other things.
But I like to provide my own shoes.
-That's awesome! -Wait, do you go do a gig
and you have them buy you -- -I mean, you have a rider.
It's, you know, part of the terms of agreement.
-No, I understand what a rider is.
-So you put the sneakers on the rider,
and then, you know --' -They got to do it.
-Yeah, mission accomplished. [ Light laughter ]
-One less thing you got to think about.
My favorite rider thing was Snoop Dogg.
I was doing a gig,
and Snoop Dogg was there, like, the week before me.
And it was in the U.K., and I was like,
"Man, what does Snoop Dogg have in his rider?"
He said, "Regular stuff, but he ordered 150 pounds of chicken."
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "150 pounds of chicken?"
It blew my mind. For, like, a whole year,
I'm thinking, "Snoop Dogg eats more chicken
than anybody on the planet." [ Laughter ]
And then I was telling a friend about it.
I was like, "You know Snoop Dogg asks for 150 pounds of chicken
in the U.K.?" And she was like,
"Money or weight?" [ Laughter ]
-Oh. That makes more sense. -Yeah, apparently,
he doesn't eat a barrel of chicken before shows.
-Where does he put it all? He's got good metabolism, man.
-It made the story a lot less interesting.
[ Laughter ] -I want to show a clip.
If you guys needed a laugh, you got to watch this.
Here's Michael Che in "Shame the Devil" on Netflix.
Take a look.
-Black people love this country.
We're just more specific about our love.
You ask any [Bleep], "You love America?"
he's like, "I love Brooklyn."
[ Laughter ]
"Atlanta is cool.
I don't know [Bleep] about them Dakotas."
[ Laughter ]
If there was a black American flag,
there'd be like 11 stars.
[ Laughter ] For cities.
It wouldn't even be the whole state.
They'd be like, "Alright, Detroit, Oakland, D.C."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Everything else would be a big-ass question mark.
-That's what I'm talking about. Michael Che, everybody!.
[ Cheers and applause ] His special "Shame the Devil"
premieres on Netflix, November 16th.