Michael Che and Colin Jost make loads of jabs at one another on ‘Weekend Update‘ however one joke went too far.
After 10 years of co-anchoring the Saturday Night Live information present sketch collectively, Che recalled an early joke from Jost that made him “so annoyed,” he almost stop the present.
“Yeah, I believe jalapeño enterprise, I used to be fairly livid about that one,” mentioned Che on the Fly on the Wall podcast, to which Jost quipped, “You had been simply upset that it labored so nicely.”
“I bear in mind in run-through if you did it, as a result of I by no means heard it earlier than. I don’t bear in mind what the setup was, however the punchline was ‘jalapeño enterprise,’” recalled Che. “And I used to be like, ‘When you inform that joke on air, I’m leaving. I’m quitting the present.’ And he did it on air and it destroyed. And I used to be so annoyed. I used to be so annoyed. I used to be like, ‘I don’t even know what we do anymore.’”
Jost added, “I might have actually reduce it if it wasn’t so upsetting to you. After which I used to be like, ‘I’m positively, positively doing this.’”
Within the Could 2015 Season 40 finale episode, Jost and Che shared their jokes that had been reduce from a earlier episode. “Ohio police arrested a girl who allegedly stabbed her boyfriend for consuming all of their salsa,” mentioned Jost. “Although you’d be indignant too in case your boyfriend was jalapeño enterprise.”
Saturday Night time Stay returns to NBC for its milestone 50th season on Sept. 28, after Che and Jost co-hosted Peacock‘s first stay comedy particular New York After Darkish on Thursday.
