-Welcome back to the show. I appreciate
every time you come. -I've always wanted
to drink water here. [ Laughter ] You always see, like, the cup but I don't ever see
anybody drink. And I always wanted to just have
a little sip of water. -Yeah.
I have to ask you, because we talked about this
last time. You now have a house.
-Yes. -And last time we talked,
you thought -- you had an ice maker
and you thought the Three Stooges
were burglaring your house. And it made me laugh.
But you have a house. How is it?
And I heard that Questlove helped you decide
to move Upstate? -That's true. He did. I was looking for a house,
and I was looking out in some town
that I shouldn't have been in. [ Light laughter ] And he was like, "You
need to look where I'm at." And I looked up there,
and it's quite nice. I do enjoy it.
It's good water. [ Laughter ] I'm not used to having
neighbors, though. Like, even still, I've never
seen you before, like, in the neighborhood.
-i have yet to move in. [ Laughter ] -So you sent me
to a neighborhood that you don't even live in? [ Laughter and applause ] -I'm not ready yet.
I'm not ready yet. -Yeah, so I'm, like,
the guinea pig for the neighborhood, now?
[ Laughter ] -Do you like it?
-It's crazy, though. Like, when I first got there, some lady, like,
brought me bread. [ Light laughter ] She knocked on the door
and was like, "I'm your neighbor.
Here's some bread." -That's so nice. -Trying to poison me
or something. -No, Upstate,
that's not what they do. -If you're watching this, ma'am, I punted your bread
over two fences. [ Laughter ] -You're too paranoid.
She was being neighborly. -No, man,
I've lived in apartments in New York City my whole life. I've never met one neighbor. [ Laughter ]
Not one person. We don't make eye contact.
We're nice people that way. Suburbs, I don't trust it.
-I want to ask about Colin Jost, your "Weekend Update" co-anchor. You guys are fantastic together,
by the way. Congrats on a great season.
-Oh, stop. [ Cheers and applause ] -He just had a baby.
-That's true. Well, Scarlett did.
-Scarlett had the baby, yeah. Have you met the baby?
-I have, man. What a cute kid.
But babies are -- they're fun for, like, a second.
[ Laughter ] You know, they don't do much
after you've looked at them. And they're just staring at you, trying to
keep their head on straight. -Oh, yeah.
[ Laughter ] -Get this wiggly thing
away from me. But, no, it's, like,
an adorable baby. It's Colin and Scarlett's baby
together. -Are you going to babysit?
Has he asked you yet? -I don't like babysitting, man. I'm actually a really good
babysitter, though, if you guys are interested.
[ Light laughter ] I'm a great babysitter. I've been babysitting
my whole life. I have nieces and nephews that's like
three years younger than me. -Oh, really?
-I've been babysitting them since they were babies.
Since I was a baby, actually. -Yeah,
Were you a good babysitter? -I was a great babysitter, man. I just let you cry
until you're sleepy. [ Laughter ] -Now, "Michael Che:
Shame the Devil." This is your stand-up special
on Netflix. -I'm excited.
You know, right about now, I just feel like
what the world needs is more stand-up comedy on Netflix.
[ Laughter ] Something that everyone
can agree on. -Yeah, yeah. I love the name
"Shame the Devil." I've never heard that term
before. -Never? You don't got,
like, a black aunt? [ Laughter ] "Shame the Devil" is a very --
it's something that, you know, like, church ladies say. They say, "Tell the truth,
shame the devil, 'cause the devil is a liar."
No one has ever heard this before?
-No, I mean, I haven't. -The Roots are shaking their
head, "Yes, absolutely." [ Laughter ]
"Shame the devil." -So, you're just kind of
just telling the truth? -I'm trying to.
But as much as I can, you know. -Yeah, you're a great comic,
man. -Let's not...
-Where did you film it? -In Oakland.
Oakland, California. [ Cheers and applause ] -A lot of Oakland fans here.
What's it like backstage when you're on the road?
Do you have a rider? Do you have --
What do you have in the room? -I'm fascinated with riders. Like, I don't really
have a rider. I usually just ask for, like,
chicken fingers and M&M's because that's just
my life right now. But I'm fascinated
with other people's riders. Like, I'm always like --
Anytime there's a performer, like, before me, I'm like,
"What did they have in their rider?"
And then, like, they tell me. Like, some performers --
one comedian -- I won't say his name,
but he asked for, like, white sneakers
before every show. Brand-new white sneakers.
They got to buy them before every show.
-Can you do that? -Apparently, yeah.
[ Light laughter ] Isn't that the coolest thing?
You do it, too? -i do it with T-shirts
and other things. But I like to provide
my own shoes. -That's awesome!
-Wait, do you go do a gig and you have them buy you --
-I mean, you have a rider. It's, you know, part of
the terms of agreement. -No, I understand
what a rider is. -So you put the sneakers
on the rider, and then, you know --'
-They got to do it. -Yeah, mission accomplished.
[ Light laughter ] -One less thing
you got to think about. My favorite rider thing
was Snoop Dogg. I was doing a gig, and Snoop Dogg was there,
like, the week before me. And it was in the U.K.,
and I was like, "Man, what does Snoop Dogg have
in his rider?" He said, "Regular stuff, but he
ordered 150 pounds of chicken." [ Laughter ] And I was like,
"150 pounds of chicken?" It blew my mind.
For, like, a whole year, I'm thinking, "Snoop Dogg
eats more chicken than anybody on the planet."
[ Laughter ] And then I was telling a friend
about it. I was like, "You know Snoop Dogg
asks for 150 pounds of chicken in the U.K.?"
And she was like, "Money or weight?"
[ Laughter ] -Oh. That makes more sense.
-Yeah, apparently, he doesn't eat a barrel of
chicken before shows. -Where does he put it all?
He's got good metabolism, man. -It made the story
a lot less interesting. [ Laughter ]
-I want to show a clip. If you guys needed a laugh,
you got to watch this. Here's Michael Che
in "Shame the Devil" on Netflix. Take a look. -Black people
love this country. We're just more specific
about our love. You ask any [Bleep],
"You love America?" he's like, "I love Brooklyn." [ Laughter ] "Atlanta is cool. I don't know [Bleep]
about them Dakotas." [ Laughter ] If there was
a black American flag, there'd be like 11 stars. [ Laughter ]
For cities. It wouldn't even be
the whole state. They'd be like, "Alright,
Detroit, Oakland, D.C." [ Cheers and applause ] Everything else would be
a big-ass question mark. -That's what I'm talking about.
Michael Che, everybody!. [ Cheers and applause ]
His special "Shame the Devil" premieres on Netflix,
November 16th.
