Michael Che

Michael Che (born Michael Che Campbell on May 19, 1983, in New York City) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He has co-anchored Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update with Colin Jost since 2014. In SNL's Season 52 (2026–27) the two are in their 13th season at the desk, the longest-running Update pairing in the show's history.

He is the youngest of seven children and grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father gave him his middle name after Che Guevara. He graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, worked customer service at a Toyota dealership, and sold T-shirts printed with his own acrylic portraits of celebrities in SoHo.

Che started doing stand-up in 2009, often working several sets a night, and made his Late Show with David Letterman debut in 2012. In 2013 Variety named him one of its 10 Comics to Watch and Rolling Stone put him on its list of the 50 Funniest People.

He joined SNL as a writer in 2013, spent the summer of 2014 as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and that September replaced Cecily Strong on Weekend Update, becoming the segment's first Black co-anchor. He joined the main cast in his third season, was co-head writer with Jost from December 2017 until 2022, and co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards with Jost in 2018. Their Update joke swaps, where Che and Jost write embarrassing jokes for each other to deliver, have become one of the segment's best-known bits.

He has three Netflix stand-up hours: Michael Che Matters (2016), Shame the Devil (2021) and Shot in Minnesota, released October 13, 2026, which he directed and taped at First Avenue in Minneapolis. He also created the sketch series That Damn Michael Che, which ran for two seasons on HBO Max.