"Weekend Update" hosts and WrestleMania Special Guest Correspondents Michael Che and Colin Jost reflect on their night backstage at Raw as Colin ponders how he'll patch things up with Braun Strowman.
While “Saturday Night Live” mainstays and “Weekend Update” hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost were natural fits on paper for Monday Night Raw, they quickly learned that the outlandish personalities roaming 30 Rock and the WWE Universe do not quite line up in the way they might have anticipated.
Even Stephanie McMahon admitted there might be a bit of an adjustment period for the late-night hosts, but Jost disagreed, strolling through the backstage area on a wave of veteran confidence. Sure, the sight of a statuesque, conspicuously wet EC3 was a little odd, Titus O’Neil didn’t seem to care who Jost was and No Way Jose nearly stole Che into his conga line. But that was nothing you might not encounter on your average “SNL” … until he met Braun Strowman and made the mistake of asking the question, “Is any of this stuff even real?”
By the time Raw returned from commercial break, The Monster Among Men had Jost hoisted by his throat and pinned against a wall, and it took a host of WWE officials to pry the “Weekend Update” anchorman from his grip. The Gift of Destruction seemed swayed by Che’s excuses for his partner, though he did offer a final word of warning for the “SNL” stars: “I’ll see you at WrestleMania.”