Michael Che On Joy Reid & Lester Holt’s Departures: “Well, NBC, Only One More To Go”

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Saturday Night Live hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che were locked in this week when tackling headlines, addressing disasters from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s meeting with president Donald Trump to MSNBC‘s cancellation of Joy Reid’s show.

Jost kicked off the show by touching on the Oval Office confrontation, spoofed by the late-night show’s Cold Open earlier in the night. “Now thanks to that meeting, you actually can gamble on World War III on FanDuel,” he quipped, referring to Trump’s own words and referencing the online gambling company, the ads of which have proliferated online and on television.

He continued, saying Zelenskyy’s appearance on Fox News — where the leader said he thinks he can salvage the diplomatic relationship with Trump — “is like Justin Baldoni saying ‘I’d love to work with Blake again!'” In a bit of a weak, late joke, Jost also added, “The Oscar campaign for Best Picture nominee Emilia Pérez was badly damaged after problematic old tweets about George Floyd surfaced from transgender star Karla Sofía Gascón, and I think we can all agree: What?“ But, arguably the night’s loudest claps went to Che, who lobbed a precise jab at home network NBC, “This week MSNBC fired its only non-white primetime host and Lester Holt announced he is stepping down as the anchor of NBC Nightly News.

Well, NBC, only one more to go,” flashing a picture of himself onscreen. Other standouts: “Two people at a movie theater in Washington state watching Captain America: Brave New World were surprised when the theater ceiling collapsed on them.