Michael Che is one half of Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update anchor pairing, along with former head writer Colin Jost. The Weekend Update host is not always the easiest or most comfortable job for a comedian, particularly in these tumultuous times. Despite the fact that SNL is generally considered a liberal-leaning program, Che and Jost’s brand of humor and their handling of the political landscape has been attacked from all sides of the aisle.
Jost recently came under fire for a joke that insinuated that niche gender identification terms have contributed to the failure of the Democratic Party, while President-elect Donald Trump has accused the show of being unfairly biased against him:
I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night.