The Weekend Update segment of this week’s “Saturday Night Live” was strangely quiet, with lead co-anchor Colin Jost looking clearly bewildered by the lack of laughter at his jokes — only to learn that he was interrupted by co-anchor Michael Che. was joked with.
Jost’s first few jokes during Weekend Update, which included shots being taken at Donald Trump’s impeachment, drew only a smattering of laughter from the in-studio audience, and Jost looked uncomfortable.
“At this point, it looks like even conservatives have moved on. I mean I went to court today and I was the only protester there,” Jost said, revealing an image of himself in a MAGA hat, a sign with” Let our boy go.
After Jost told the joke, someone in the audience shouted, “You stink!” At this, Che finally cracked and said, “I didn’t tell them to laugh at you for April Fool’s.”
An extremely relieved Jost burst into laughter and admitted that the lack of laughter was bothering him. “Actually I was like, ‘Ain’t I Mike?’ And then I was like, ‘Oh, I just suck.’ I’m covered in sweat.
Che froze and Jost couldn’t stop laughing. And when Jost’s next joke brought the usual amount of laughter he tried to fire back at the audience, “Don’t you even dare try that right now!”
Jost and Che brought to mind a previous recurring segment in which they would write jokes to each other that were purposefully embarrassing or offensive, usually irritating Jost far more than Che.
Watch the bit in the video above.