Michael Che jokes about Charlie Kirks murder and the culture war in Netflix special Shot in Minnesota

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Set us as preferred It has been five years since Michael Che’s last stand-up special.Of course, he has a good excuse, being busy much of the year co-writing and performing “Weekend Update” on “Saturday Night Live,” and he also wrote and starred in two series of his acclaimed sketch comedy show, “That Damn Michael Che.”But he feels more like himself on the stage, he said in a recent interview.

“I really miss stand-up when I’m not doing it because I can really let loose on stage and say all the words I want,” he says.In his new Netflix hour, with the pointed title, “Michael Che: Shot in Minnesota,” he wastes no time in getting into it, opening with a series of jokes saying a lot of words about Charlie Kirk’s murder: He believes that it happened because “straight white conservative Christian men are being silenced.”He clearly loves poking at people’s sensitive spots.His favorite joke, he says onstage, is, “Men want anal sex the way women want a sensitive man.

It just sounds nice… until you see them crying.”He talks about race (“I don’t care what color you are — if you’re rich, you’re white”) and goes after President Trump and people who try to police language, but he also talks up how much fun he had at a Pride parade and about growing up poor, with his mother cleaning houses to help make ends meet.In our interview done via Zoom (without a camera on) while he was stuck in traffic on the way to 30 Rockefeller Center and then in an elevator and then in the SNL offices, he discussed it all.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Did anyone in your family shape your humor and your storytelling?My family has a different kind of humor.It’s a little meaner, if I’m being honest with you.I’d like to see Thanksgiving at your house.A lot of people would.

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