NBCUniversal recruited “Saturday Night Live” duo Colin Jost and Michael Che for the first-ever live comedy special for its Peacock streaming service on Thursday nights. The pair joked in their opening monologue about the unproven format and distributor of their comedy hour, titled “Colin Jost & Michael Che Present: New York After Dark.”
‘Tonight it’s going to be some kind of group sex. If it goes well, we can do it again every few months with our friends. And if things go really bad and it’s a disaster, we never talk about it again. And anyway, we’re going to film it.” Jost started and took the stage at The Bell House in Brooklyn. ‘We are at Peacock! You know Peacock, right? You know Peacock from the line, “I can’t believe the NFL let us download the damn Peacock.”
“Is there something fucking wrong with you, man? Those checks didn’t clear?’ Che joked. “This is the experience we have when we go in and invade somewhere. We wanted to give that to the country… Does Peacock play throughout the country?”
“We want it to be the second funniest live event this week… after the debate,” Jost said, before joking about Trump’s debunked comment about immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. “Nothing sounds more presidential than shouting, ‘They’re eating the cats and the dogs.’ I think it was Thomas Jefferson.”
During the special, a previously unannounced series of comics appeared on stage one by one, each endorsed by Jost and Che. The group consisted of Alex English, Aida Rodriguez, Aminah Imani and Carlos Miller. Emmy nominee Mike Birbiglia took the mic for the evening’s final act and began his set by pushing Jost into a question-and-answer session.
“I recently texted Colin and asked him to be on my ‘Working It Out’ podcast. Do you remember what you wrote back?” Birbiglia said, before slamming the host into the ground. “Nothing.”
“Impractical Jokers” star Sal Vulcano also appeared, along with fellow “SNL” castmate Sarah Sherman, who also mocked Jost: “This place is close to my apartment, looks like you violated the restraining order.”