According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Che (Top Five, War,)Top Five, War) has been set to ask positional questions about Shane Gillis’ (Tires Gilly and Keeves) controversial monologue on Saturday Night Live last weekend, and the moment has finally arrived.
“I gotta do more press this week to promote the special. Wonder what every fucking question’s gonna be about,” Che wrote on his Instagram earlier this week, regarding the press tour for his new Netflix stand-up special, Michael Che: Shot in Minnesota via The Hollywood Reporter. “Thanks a lot Shane.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, after hosting the NBC sketch comedy program on Saturday, Gillis drew heat over his joke about women working out.
“I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like whores now,” Gillis said to the live audience via The Hollywood Reporter. “Look, I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe it. Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. The shorts? Have you seen the shorts? They’re neon, like, artificial bait-colored? And the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the butthole. And don’t look. You’re not allowed to look. For real, don’t look, because they are filming. I’m in the background of like 10 TikToks right now.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, although he stated that he wasn’t interested in weighing in on the discourse, Che, who anchors “Weekend Update” with Colin Jost on SNL, was asked on the Today show Thursday about the controversy.
“That’s comedy,” he said via The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s like, you think it’s funny and some people don’t.”
He was later asked if he laughed at Gillis’ joke about women, to which Che replied via The Hollywood Reporter, “I was at cue cards actually, thinking about what I was gonna say that was gonna make people upset. I didn’t even see it until the next day.”