Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Very excited to bring you my conversation today with one of the stars of Saturday Night

Live, Mr. Michael Che.

Not only does he host Weekend Update with his buddy Colin Jost has done that since 2014,

he also is the co-head writer of SNL, where the most prestigious positions in all of

comedy.

We talk about his long journey to those lofty heights, and it began on the lower east side

of Manhattan.

We got together in a little bar down there, a couple blocks away from where he grew up

in a public housing.

Youngest of seven children raised by his single mother, amazing story about how he got

where he is.

Wasn't really into comedy, it was a funny guy, but was more into design and drawing, went

to LaGuardia High School for performing arts, the famous school, and then after high school

made money selling t-shirts that he had designed and produced.

There's a great story in here about how Tommy Hilfiger loved his shirt so much he tried

to hire him, but Michael Che says he just kind of ghosted him after one day on the job

and walked away.

You'll hear his rise through stand-up comedy to being spotted by Colin Jost and getting

that coveted ticket to Saturday Night Live.

There's so much in his story.

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