Che is the only one who can make him turn red like that

This episode was so off the rails and I loved it.

They play it together so well. Their work together is far greater than what they do individually

Thanks, I couldn't understand his last few words

I suspect that Che also said to punch up their laughs for himself.

Omg that’s so amazing you got to witness this in person 😂

Thx, I thought as much ..The whole mic-setup is made to get as much laughter on tape, the volume can always be lowered... But it was still very noticable..

How fun that you were there!

Watching this clip, I didn't notice at all until Che revealed the joke. It sounds like they added a laugh track, totally spoiling the bit.

@Roman-ez4hq Knowing how it can be on stage, my first thought was that Colin would be hardly hearing any audience reaction at all compared to the viewers at home. And here I find a fellow Roman to confirm it! 😄 Thanks for live audience insight!

Same! I laughed so hard when watching this!

To be absolutely fair, SNL has had more solo anchors than duo anchors (and one time, during the 1981-1982 season, they had a trio that sometimes downgraded to a duo), so the joke wouldn't work.

Because it is mean and they show you they are hateful

@Linda DeChiazza wow, either you completely don't understand humor, or your trolling me

Man I agree with you and I've been watching since 75 and these guys are definitely the best snl has ever had.

Old school SNL cast would definitely sabotage each other, but it wasn’t for April Fools and it didn’t look cute like this😬

THANK YOU, I COULDN’T MAKE OUT WHAT HE SAID.

I’d bet that was a cast or crew member Che brought in to wrap the joke. But still, perfect.

It was one of the Please Don't Destroy guys

Is CJ a repub? I don't get what happened.

@@watamutha They often joke that Jost is a right winger usually of the privileged snobby variety, but in this case the prank was bigger and unrelated to that one joke. Che got most of the audience to not laugh or applaud any of Jost's jokes, so that one was like the 3rd or 4th one with noticeably less reaction. The "you stink" was like the cherry on top of the prank and was just so blatant that Che came clean afterwards. (I agree it might well have been intentional to have someone yell that, because that was the perfect time to reveal the truth and watch Jost's follow-up reaction for the rest of the segment!)

I DONT KNOW THEY ARE BAD AND Che is so serious. The total satire they have brought is these last few crazy years was my therapy. Many times we here the news and over and over and truth and we learn and they keep stirring it up that we or I am just tired of it. Especially by the end of the week. All those new words too...Unreal since trump was in office.😮 But anything that is concerning then on and on gets on our nerves they never miss. They tell it in a way that we are all laughing and a crazy mess.

Lol

If you didn't know what was going on, you absolutely could not tell that Colin was freaking out in his head, very well done on Colin's part.

I rewatched to notice the difference in laughter from Che's Jokes and Colins. Made it 10x funnier.

Yes totally worth the rewatch to see the difference in volume and how Jost is handling this as he quietly doubts himself. Che is loving it.

I also love how aware he is that the Gaston / LeFou joke is actually bad but he sees that he’s going to get sympathy laughter from it. Watching him work through that in his head is hilarious stuff.

I got a flashback to pandemic zoom SNL

I'd wager to say that it's one of the best moments of the show, period.

@@mikelarson7856 Yeah, Colin’s reaction is unbridled horror and relief at the same time. Scripted tv can’t replicate that, you’ll only get it on a live show.

Agreed!

I don’t get it they did laugh the entire time .

​@@mikej5959 there's a big difference in the laugh reaction though

Even funnier when the audience fake over cheers for him for his next joke to cheer him up 😂🤣

Last Laugh? Who's The Big Guy that's getting Hunter's 10% revealed in the laptop?

​@@dyshirley2657 😢

@@dyshirley2657 Ted Cruz

@@briengakaplan-b1550 They cheered before he even said the joke! That was hilarious.

Sounded more like a crew member.

STUPID!!!!

Sounded like Michael Longfellow

Did Che really ask u guys not to laugh tho?

​@@daniellevin758 They weren't in the audience. Anyone can say that

Except he wasn’t. He had that shit eating grin going on the whole time, it was amazing.

You could tell he was trying to keep it together. His side eye glances were golden because he knew it was getting to him

@@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist Keep your lame fairy tale horror stories out of this. Intelligent people don't worship hippie zombies.

I mean I made it through all that straight-faced. Possibly because it wasn't really more funny than a "heh" every now and again.

This was a sad attempt at comedy no matter what your political beliefs were. The audience howling with laughter should tell you it’s mostly workers and probably the writers in the crowd

I mean these people don’t actually have feelings about the show it’s their job to applause when the sign says so

WE MUST LAUGH! ( and don’t shoot) . Be careful the GOP is sensitive.😐

They were released from suppressing their laughter. The jokes were very funny.

I love his "Don't you dare! Don't you even dare!" response

Yes, it's better EVERY TIME after the first😂😂

I just watched it for the first time, I had no idea what to expect but the audience not laughing cause he told them not to was mean and funny at the same time 😅

FACTS!!

My thoughts exactly. Doing this sort of stunt in public is taxing on anything but the best friendships!

Class? WTF, political nonsense, not funny. Not comedy, content approved by fascist Democrat producers to pass emotional support to the lazy minded democrat viewers they cater too. Insulting bS

An exceptional example of grown men behaving with dignity, love, and grace. Hope is alive and well ❤

But no kudos to the laugh track inserter.

For real. Comedians as a species NEED laughs and applause to sustain themselves. They will literally wither away and die without it.

@@NiteSaiya as strange of an analogy as that is, the weirder part is that its *_KIND OF_* spot on.. like the best of comedians can roll through even after bombing, but on average that fatal moment can ruin careers of newer comics, let alone shake their motivation to ever get back out there and try again (hence the wither away and die part)

@@AdsForAdultswhat are you talking about? You know SNL is live right? I mean it’s in the name

I don't get it. I watched it 5 times, turned on the CC, then read here. So the prank was people weren't laughing at Colin's jokes? But they WERE laughing.

Me too! 😅

But they were laughing, weren't they? Or maybe not as hard as usual?

Yeah I don’t get the joke. There was laughter…

What did Michael yell out before he revealed the gag?

Thought there was a pro trump audience.

Sorry yeah they are very contemporary, smart, and hip but no one can match Dan Aykroyd calling Jane Curtain, "Jane, you ignorant slut" on national live TV. I saw it when it originally aired but didnt quite underestand the hooplah b/c I was a teen and rewatched it over and over on the 'net as an adult. MAGIC. Dan played the role perfectly with a straight face. How Jane kept her composure was hilarious. She is a legend too.

Poor colin? I don't get it? What happened?

colin and michael need to pull a kenan fr bc if one of them leaves, its never gonna be the same

@@johnnysworld6066 no one was laughing at Colin’s jokes for April fools, the only laughter was the laughing track but he can see the audience and no one was laughing.

@@erika5012 oh. I thought i don't get it. Thanks for clearing that up.

Yeah. All those times Che made Jost say racist and otherwise politically incorrect jokes to get him canceled and *this* pushes him over the edge? I hate to see what they do to each other when it's time for one or both of them to leave the show.

I didn't get it. What was Michael's prank on Colin & what was yelled at from the audience?

When I saw this, I thought, the Fox news nuts, and Trump cult are going to get excited. Thinking, SNL sucks. No one is laughing at the Trump jokes

Free Otomatones!!!

​@@jessetorres8738 the prank was that ahead of time, Michael told the audience not to laugh at colins jokes. I'm pretty sure the person in the audience is yelling "you stink!" But I'm not totally sure it's hard to hear.

​@Jesse Torres he told them ahead of time not to laugh at any of Colin's jokes (obviously some people did anyway) but the idea was to make it seem like he was bombing. Someone in the audience yelled "you stink," either prompted or unprompted by Che and at that point he told Colin that he told the audience not to laugh.

Well yeah all comedians judge their performance off the crowd

Omg yes, the way his body sagged like “oh thank GOD” 🤣🤣🤣

that's a comedian's job though

You're right. You could also see Colin trying to push the joke when he saw it falling flat. lol

This is one of the 2 skits that I never want to end. The other is DAVID S PUMPKINS!! He's his own THANG!

Is it just me or does it feel like when Weekend Up is over, I say, "I got my big laugh, I'm going to bed." Of course, I don't do that when there's a very good musical guest, lol.

Someone filmed it and he reposted it on his IG story

​@@estefimedinajsorry, I'm old. I don't understand what that means...

Bingo😂😂makes it all better

That’s pretty much how everyone sees him: he’s crushing life so hard that no matter how mean to him you are, he’s still winning! Even che was like “what’s the worst mistake Collin can even make? Mess around and accidentally marry Scarlett Johansson??”

yea that really takes the sting out of it rofl

Phil?

Yeah man,.it's the jackpot honey pot of all time, dude has a bad day at the office but sleeps with Scarjo

I haven't laughed that hard in awhile 😂😂

I didn't understand that joke

In a normal set it’d probably be a niche joke that didn’t get much of a response. Love Colin’s reaction when it gets the loudest laugh.

Also, the “what?” hand thing he does is exactly what Hader did when Mulaney stuck in a stupid line for Stefon. Makes me wonder if Che dropped that joke in there.

@@annikarasmussen6616 Disney's original animated Beauty and the Beast - Gaston is a big strong jerk ass, and LaFou is his short little brown-nosing weasel employee.

Probably saw his life flash before his eyes lol

The "YOU STINK!" almost made him cry 😂

Oh man, the poor guy was probably getting flashbacks to his first weekend update

@Charlie Petricor. Evil in a good, funny way. Colin will have his revenge (I hope). And really, watching them together, one can see the genuine affection and friendship between the two.

That joke he made Colin say about his wife is still up there as more evil but they both made me laugh. So am I truly the evil one.

@@siavm You're not the evil one. That joke was terribly hilarious.

It’s crazy that when they started, they were trying to find their niche & came into the massive comedic hole Seth Meyers left behind but Michael & Colin definitely made Weekend Update their own.

Idk. Before them was Seth Meyers & Amy Poehler, who were amazing (Especially the REALLY?!? and Stefon segments). And before that was Tina Fey & and a very young Jimmy Fallon. Both of those duos are classic SNL.

Nope!!! It was the J6 skit that was the best ever!!!

You should have seen the OGs. Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtain, etc.

Have you been watching? It's not it's own segment anymore but they definitely still do it almost every week.

@@callmeshaggy5166 I have been watching, the jokes don't have that ommph compared to when they used to do it either in the winter finale or season finale in my opinion.

​​@@DuoForbidden I think that's only because they don't announce the joke swap anymore they just do it. If you know the joke swap is coming you psych yourself up to believing the jokes are more funny because you already expect them to be.

Out of character for sure

I thought he was yelling “Deep State”

@@PowerGlove79 oh it's definitely you stink. he dropped his head down in shame 😂

I know, I wish they'd show them both bc it's funny to see their reactions. Luckily we get to catch the end of them since they go back and forth, but still think it'd make it even better.

That's kind of wholesome❤

so true

Yes indeed

Oh my gosh that's actually so true

Yes. That side eye!

When the dude yells "You stink!", he just loses it and starts laughing uncontrollably, it couldn't have gone better.

There is warmup person before the show starts he probably came out and asked before it happened

Cuz they weren't funny and off base. Basically not reality. Wake up girl

​@@truthyahweh9877 yeah, and you're clearly a competent person that knows jokes.

​@@rickton2517He does, demonic dem!!!!

Someone on a Reddit thread about this episode was at the live taping. Apparently Michael Che came into the lounge where audience members are seated before they go into the actual studio for the show and told them not to laugh at any of Colin's jokes as part of the prank.

Copyright it now before someone else steals the idea.

Fuckin brilliant!

Anchorman

@@eclectica1 Agreed. Get the rights to this idea asap!! That's some shit that Will Ferrell would eat up.

@@cndcotton4116 That movie is actually not that same idea or premise if you've actually seen it. That's like saying "Bruce Almight" is the same thing because Jim Carrey played a reporter. Completely different. Even if it were..which it's not...there can be more than one movie about a subject or idea. How many racing movies, war movies, martial arts movies, cop movies, "killer wearing masks" movies etc are there?

Been saying it for awhile. These 2 can take over The Daily Show

Didn't realize SNL was still around

A Che x Colin comedy special would sell Peacock Subscriptions

Didn't they try that?

I feel bad for u

SNL wins best writing every year practically and they are both lead writers

It helps that Colin is a cutie pie and Che is wickedly funny.

It was a cruel prank. I didn't like it at all☹

@@SquirtleHK I'm sure his very beautiful and talented wife will kiss all the booboos away.

@@SquirtleHK His consolation prize is sleeping with Scarjo.... he will be fine.

He doesn't have to worry, his wife just dated *checks notes* Ryan Reynolds. Nothing to be intimidated about there.

🪙

Guess u haven't watch a lot of snl then.

@@truthyahweh9877 name a better duo

@@user-fo6hb2iy4b anyone from the 90s. Literally anyone

​@@user-fo6hb2iy4b Chevy Chase and Emily Litelda-but that was in the early days of SNL.