Michael Che Defends SNL Weekend Update Partner From Writers Scorn
Dont mess with Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update team. That was the takeaway after segment co-star..
Dont mess with Saturday Night Lives Weekend Update team. That was the takeaway after segment co-star Michael Che posted a series of vulgar rebuttals to an article attacking his fellow host, Colin Jost.
In an Uproxx article titled Why Does Everyone (Still) Hate SNL”s Colin Jost?, writer Steven Hyden took issue with the hosts demeanor on the segment.
“Nobody has been quite as disliked, while also being as central to the show, as Jost. Among the people I know who like SNL, Jost (at best) is a benign presence whose essential blandness precludes feeling one way or the other about his tenure on Weekend Update, or (at worst) a smug hack who relies far too often on easy, frat-dude punchlines about porno movies and penis sizes,” Hyden wrote.
Hyden also mentioned that most of his Twitter feed seems to hate SNL. “Jost is nothing less than the epitome of white-male mediocrity, an empty vessel who is handsome (but not that handsome), smart enough (but not all that smart), and, well, passably funny (though only if you grade on a generous curve). He seems less like a comedian than a cardboard 80s movie villain — like James Spader if he looked like a beefier Andrew McCarthy — with zero self-consciousness when it comes to bragging about how he gets his boat shoes wet at the finest beaches in the Hamptons.”
Che responded with a series of Instagram stories, most Read More – Source
