Michael Che is almost 100% sure about his job security.
The “Saturday Night Live” head writer and “Weekend Update” co-host Michael Che said he was “99.9% sure” he’d be returning to the long-running sketch comedy series next season.
“At the end of a season I always think I’m going to quit because I [just] went through a whole season,” Che revealed on “The View” during a Tuesday appearance.
The Manhattan-born comic also had a laugh about the controversy the “Gen Z Hospital” sketch he wrote for guest host Elon Musk earlier this month. Social media users claimed the sketch, which poked fun at young people’s overuse of phrases like “bruh” and “cap” misappropriated AAVE, which is an acronym for African American Vernacular English.
“I thought I had the vaccine for Black appropriation, being Black,” Che quipped, adding, of the threat of being “canceled” over the bit. “I thought I was immune, but you know what? You’re never immune.”
The “That Damn Michael Che” show creator and star clarified that the “very silly sketch” was actually making fun of “internet-speak.” He said the sketch, “worked for some people and did not work for a lot more.”
No stranger to scuttlebutt, Che skirted controversy and caused an uproar on social media for using the N-word during the October 2016 “SNL” season premiere. He also used the racial epithet again in reference to Kanye West in 2018.
“You know, I negotiated four N-words this entire season in my new contract,” he said during a “Weekend Update” segment.
As for his current future with the program, he quipped, “I assume when I leave SNL it won’t be of my choosing.”
Che, who was previously named on Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch list and Rolling Stone’s 50 Funniest People joined the Lorne Michaels-helmed series, in 2013.
The season finale of “SNL,” hosted by Anya Taylor-Joy featuring Lil Nas X as the musical guest, will air Saturday.
