Michael Che Talks SNL, Kanye West, Wrestlemania, Top 5 Sketches

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of People's Party, Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and Saturday Night Live star Michael Che. The result is a hilarious, yet insightful conversation. Topics include Michael growing up in Manhattan's Lower East Side, the gentrification of Brooklyn, his father naming him after revolutionary Che Guevara, how Michael approaches politics in his comedy from a know-nothing perspective, and sticking to facts in comedy while maintaining artistic freedom. Che also goes into his time spent at LaGuardia High School, comedy not being on his radar until later, and he details his biggest takeaways and life-lessons learned there.

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0:00.0	I'm looking at my ear pods.
0:24.4	It looks like I got strange white things coming out my ears.
0:27.4	I'm saying this is the people's party.
0:29.9	Shout out to Jasmine Lee.
0:30.9	Say what's up to my co-host, the lovely and talented Jasmine.
0:33.2	Leave what's up Jasmine.
0:34.5	What's up people?
0:35.5	You're looking vibrant.
0:36.5	Am I am I glowing?
0:40.8	We are from a remote location because obviously we're still in lockdown but we had to keep
0:45.6	bringing you the people's party.
0:47.4	We had to keep getting the guest and this next guest that we have is somebody who's
0:51.8	name came up when we first invented this show because this man's spirit is like the
0:57.1	spirit of what we try to capture for people's party.
1:00.6	He is one of the best working comedians of his generation.
1:04.3	He's put out one of the best stand-up specials of the last decade.
1:08.2	It's classic because people are still talking about it.
1:10.8	Go ahead writer of Saturday Night Live and we're going to get into that because Saturday Night
1:14.2	Live is one of my favorite shows of all time.
1:17.7	Pearl anchor of weekend update.
1:20.3	You listen to this man and he represents this every man aesthetic you know but he brings
1:27.8	high-minded concepts down to the level that people could understand and I really appreciate
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