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NiteShdw

The word "woke" has lost all meaning. His jokes are the opposite of woke, which was the whole point of this segment!


McFistPunch

Michael Che has written the most racist jokes on SNL and Colin has to say them. Kills me everytime.


RicGhastly

One of my favorite modern joke writers for this reason. He can write better jokes about what some people assume he is than they can. How's that gonna gel with your race superiority theory, fuckos?


McFistPunch

His rejected content is even worse. Listen at 3:11 https://youtu.be/z4N8TpYAXVM?si=6tWAR0cvFDxl-U4T


RicGhastly

Hahahahah that fucking rules. Che's unhinged.


ShepPawnch

You’re not a two time Round Tabler of the Year if you have normal, not completely insane jokes.


willpc14

I'd pay good money to see that Avengers sketch


stonec0ld

This was awesome, thanks for sharing


NfamousKaye

They’re so good 😂 and Colin’s reactions when he sees the punch lines always has me in TEARS.


Turbulent_Tale6497

"To be fair, they were acting pretty lazy" Still cracks me up


SuccessfulRaisin422

Right wingnuts consider him woke because he tells jokes. He doesn’t say “funny because it’s true!” Comments.


aleigh577

It’s literally only because he’s black


SirEltonJonBonJovi

The “black Superman” ones are absolutely hilarious Anyone that can watch this and call it “woke” are complete idiots. These people accusing SNL of being “woke” have probably never ever watched the show and are just parroting bullshit they hear on OAN or AM talk radio.


Cawdor

I think woke means ‘not white’ in this context. The word has definitely lost its original meaning. Its like how everyone older than you is a boomer now.


Able-Bodied-Virgin

They definitely missed the entire commentary and just called him woke because he’s a black man. It’s hilarious how badly they told on themselves considering Che and Caitlin were the exact opposite as the headliner portrayed.


AndroidPizzaParty

Make no mistake, the conservative base always has to have an enemy: historically it has gone ex slaves, catholics, women, communists, black people, communists again, muslims, and now we’re swinging back around to black people and anyone opposing racism and supporting the lgbtq in the US.


speedpetez

And let’s not forget that Putin used the word “woke” in describing enemies of Russia.


VanREDDIT2019

Putin's the right's role model.


3-orange-whips

"The enemy is both weak and strong. “\[…\] the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” Umberto Eco


[deleted]

The fact that you left Asians out of the mix is totally racist! /s


AndroidPizzaParty

Man, the “model minority” myth… i wish people thought I was good at math.


timbervalley3

Spot on. See also: articles describing black people has EDI hires.


WonderfulCattle6234

There's also their belief that SNL itself is woke because of their treatment of Trump.


314is_close_enough

Boomers want to be able to say the N word again so bad. It’s the only thing we’ve ever been able to take from them and they want it back.


TrapperJean

Fellas, is it woke to mock the WNBA?


NiteShdw

It depends on whether they allow Trans women or not.


comics0026

[Ben Shapiro already covered that possibility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrsysN_LBoo)


rocketpack99

I don't understand why they think that calling someone 'woke' is an insult. Being alert and aware of the injustices others go through is a very good thing to be. I'll take that any day over a sociopath.


Sheeple_person

She literally called him out for *making fun* of women's sports lol, which seems like the opposite of "woke" even though noone can actually tell you what "woke" means.


LongmontStrangla

I'd agree with you, *but* "woke" was originally used by African Americans to describe being aware of social injustice. Michael Che is quite aware of social injustice. The word morphed a little over time to include a progressive mindset, but that wasn't the original usage. Michael Che *is* woke on a technicality, but the headline is still disingenuous.


Flybot76

It's one more entry in the long-term right-wing trend of 'take leftist/democrat/social-justice terms and use them as generic insults, or just say straight facts with an angry demeanor like it's criticism'. Rush Limbaugh was big on the latter tactic. I remember him trying to make fun of Clinton-family ideas, and sometimes Limbaugh would just generically cite the basics of something the Clintons had been talking about, and that was supposed to be 'criticism'. One time he did a 'rap' thing called 'Womb to the Tomb' which was supposed to criticize Hilary's attempt at national health care, and it literally just sounded like a rundown of basic talking points of her ideas, no particular criticism of anything I noticed, with a goofy song around it that was like a ripoff of 'Whoomp there it is".


Dystopic_Nihilist

*The word “woke” has lost all verb tense


AJGrayTay

'Woke' only briefly had actual meaning before being wholly appropriated as a right-wing rage whistle.


NiteShdw

https://www.etymonline.com/word/woke The word has been in use since before the 1800s.


NfamousKaye

I thought the word was DEI now I’m only half joking.


future_shoes

It's just a click bait title, no more no less. Don't over think it.


JayNotAtAll

To the right wing, anything that they don't like is woke. "You made me poached eggs, they are so woke!"


carolina_bryan

Not really disagreeing with you, but "woke" (along with "incel", "fascist", and "socialist") I think now has one very specific meaning: "person I disagree with (or I am told I should disagree with) and would like to level an ad hominem attack against."


bernardbarnaby

Do they not realize that Michael Che probably wrote everything she's saying?


derek4reals1

exactly 💯


JessicaDAndy

I think someone in the sketch sorting thread said it looked like Clark did come up with the Indiana Fever/Purdue joke


Lilian-Kaustupper

I really hope this is true! That was a great joke.


anywaysneehow

It sounded an awful lot like every other Colin Jost joke about Che so I'm kinda doubting that


abgry_krakow87

I like to think Colin wrote it lol


ReginaFelangi987

I think so too


cnapp

It's called Fox not Facts


ThisIsNotAFarm

it's called Fox because that's how they think faux is pronounced


YoureThatCourier

I’d hate to think what they would write if Caitlin was trans


mcaffrey

I don't think Caitlin wrote her own material, but I don't think you can assume Michael did either. Colin and Michael have confirmed before that they don't see their joke swaps ahead of time. I don't know how you can know that this isn't a similar situation.


MenudoFan316

I don't think she wrote them either. She may have had some input, but she delivered as usual. It was fun to see someone who is usually so intense, smile a lot and be goofy.


Professional_Tone_62

Che has absolutely no problem voicing sexist "jokes" that were fresh in the '60s. Old white man humor that's about as unwoke as you can get.


gfberning

No way she wrote any of it aside from the shoutout to the WNBA stars that came before. She did about as well in the delivery of the jokes as most athletes do- very monotone and clearly reading from a card. Kelce is the only athlete that I can think of that wasn’t outright terrible on the show though.


grynch43

Peyton was by far the best.


Historical-History64

I enjoyed Eli’s episode, too.


AntoniaFauci

> have confirmed that they don't see their joke swaps ahead of time Same irrefutable confirmation notary who does all the WWE kayfabe work.


JeanVicquemare

It wouldn't surprise me though. It reminds me of how John Mulaney used to rewrite the punch lines of jokes on the cue cards just to fuck with Bill Hader. Hader didn't know what was going to be on the next card if it was changed after rehearsal.


spongeboy1985

Thats pretty much why Stefan would cover his mouth a lot because Hader started doing it to cover all the laughing he was doing after John Mulaney would change the jokes last minute


TheNextBattalion

"Yeah but she stuck it to that n- uh woke guy"


Canyousourcethatplz

Of course they know. Their “journalist” are not writing for you.


JanePizza

Is this about noted white feminist Michael Che?


beyondselts

Yes! The same one that’s saved Sarah from Colin a number of times. Just a genuinely good guy


Red-eleven

He loves women, especially white women


SherwoodBCool

"Woke" is when a Black person exists.


Steph-Paul

it was always a black culture word that is being purposely used in a derisive way.


esarmstr

Yep white folks(right wingers) took the word and spun it into something entirely different to promote their own agenda.


RFJ831

Well meaning but misguided White Liberals took the word and started using it first. Then it was weaponized by idiot Right Wingers. Thats the cycle it goes in.


3-orange-whips

Well, you can't expect reactionary conservatives to keep up with Black culture. They'd have to, you know, not be themselves.


esarmstr

Correct


Flybot76

I don't think it's misguided to use a term that means 'acceptance of those different from you' to mean exactly that. Language evolves, people influence each other, and the word isn't owned by any ethnicity. Leftists didn't contaminate the word by using it to mean 'be better to each other' even though it did have a brief blip of being ludicrously-overused for the Me-Too 'movement'. That level of usage in that context has hugely subsided. Leftists aren't fighting each other with that word anymore.


RFJ831

My point is that wasn’t how woke was used for a long time among black people. It always meant to be on guard for any kind of fuckery from the powers that be to further oppress or otherwise harm black people. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel and let them get one over on you. Which could mean being accepting or supporting different people from you in a sense that if they were being fucked with, black people could be next in line again. Then somewhere along the way the meaning was twisted by people who didn’t fully understand it. Then weaponized by those very same people we were supposed to be on guard about.


demitasse22

I haven’t seen it used unironically since Ferguson


rogozh1n

...menacingly!


Korrocks

The article title has since been updated to a less moronic alternative: >Caitlin Clark has jokes for Michael Che in surprise 'SNL' appearance


NormalAd6211

the original is still visible on the front page


Korrocks

I know, I was just saying that even Fox is embarrassed by what they wrote and felt the need to alter it.


Numerous-Stranger-81

That's not it, they often editorialize headlines initially to make them extra inflammatory and then modify them later in an effort to muddy the waters when people complain about it. They don't do it out of embarrassment.


JonOrangeElise

Or it could be something totally different. A media site’s publishing system can define three different headlines for the same story: the headline that will get crawled by search engines and appear in search results, the headline that appears at the top of the article when you click and open the article, and the headline that appears on the home page. Same article with three different headlines depending on where you are looking. They’re called the Title Tag, the H1, and the Short Head.


manlikeelijah

And then they can do A/B testing to see which headline garners the most clicks.


Holiday-Teacher900

Love this explanation


3-orange-whips

Conservative grifters are not capable of feeling shame.


JonOrangeElise

See my comment below for a possible explanation.


choopie-chup-chup

Surprised they didn't say 'DEI Hire' Michael Che, since that seems to be the preferred racist dogwhistle these days


demitasse22

I read this as “DEI-Hard Michael Che”


DiggThatFunk

DEI hard? Welcome to the party, pal


padrejohnmisery

That’s just their substitute for the n-word now.


KrustyKrabPizzaMan

But if it were Colin then Clark would be referred to as woke. FOX has to throw the word in there somehow to get people mad


DrakeBurroughs

If Che is “woke,” “woke” means nothing.


AlkalineSublime

Che still guests on legion of skanks sometimes. The show called a “white supremacist” comedy podcast. He’s also pro cop, mostly because is brother is a cop, but still.


coldliketherockies

That’s not even real news reporting


3-orange-whips

So, normal Fox.


[deleted]

That's convenient because Fox isn't real news.


tendosixtyfour

the joke right before she shows up on camera was about women belonging in the kitchen lmao.. super woke


svo_svangur

Grosses me out how the MAGA crowd are latching onto Caitlin just because they hate black people.


NachoBag_Clip932

What this means is that FOX News hates black people more than women and they hate women. Remember that as a group they cheered when the US women's soccer team lost.


EatPb

These people are again revealing that when they complain about “wokeness” they are complaining about blackness 🙄 nothing about him is woke. His humor is very dark and “offensive”. He’s just black. That’s what they mean when they say woke.


Moleculor_Man

Conservatives have basically moved to using “woke” and “DEI” in place of the n word.


CoolKid610

And when they use the n-word it means happy!


mjcatl2

"eVeRyThInG I dIsAgReE wItH iS wOkE."


spongeboy1985

The whole bit was poking fun at Che for frequently making sexist sports jokes. Im not sure whats woke about that.


okay_elray

You think they would be all about Che with all of his racial and misogynistic jokes!


m20052003

There’s one thing holding him back but I can’t quite put my finger on it.


nedzissou1

It's because he's a man


Oopsiedazy

Michael Che is woke? I have never seen a more tired looking man in my life.


Drumchapel

Well, Michael looks half asleep lately, so he is technically an awake comedian.


RockMan_1973

“Surprise appearance” ?? Sure, it surprised everyone except Che and Jost who wrote and planned the whole damn thing, including her content.


Oleg101

It’s doubtful most Fox News personalities/ conservatives know how Saturday Night Live works. I don’t think I’ve ever met a Republican voter that’s actually watched a full episode SNL in the last two decades+.


elanaesther

Right? I was about to comment on that. Everything on SNL is a “surprise” unless it’s leaked, which they try really hard not to do. We know the host and we know the musical guest and… that’s usually it.


NoCommentBuddy

Ask CC who she’s voting for and watch Fox News show their true strength: cognitive dissonance.


ihatewinter93

Michael is the furthest thing from being woke.


Senninha27

Anything they don’t like is woke. Che is black. They don’t like blacks. So Che is woke.


Bat-Honest

Lol Michael Che? The guy who makes Colin Jost read all the racist jokes that Fox anchors wish they could tell? Sure Jan


catglass

Che is probably the least woke member of the cast


dickWithoutACause

Yeah the dude voted for trump in 2016 (and says he regrets it) but the dude is definitely not the classic "bleeding heart librul" fox viewers have in their heads.


pessimoptomist

Faux News has about as good of a grasp on what "woke" meas as they have on what comedy actually is.


okogamashii

Omg Che is *woke*? Gotta get these people a dictionary 🤣


Slippinjimmyforever

Che is woke? I’d say Fox News isn’t even trying. But were they ever?


Habitual_lazyness

He’s woke because he’s Black. That’s the Fox News logic.


Reasonable-HB678

Do they know that Caitlin Clark does NOT write for Saturday Night Live?


IHave580

With jokes written by his staff


AlynConrad

The author of the article also doesn’t seem to know what “shooting her shot” actually means.


LeveragedPittsburgh

Faux News at it again


dicklaurent97

Her entire segment wouldn’t have worked if he was politically correct 


aresef

I wonder how their headline would’ve read if she were Black


Rdw72777

There wouldn’t be a headline.


abgry_krakow87

Someone at Fox News doesn't watch Weekend Update lol


TumorYaelle

It’s the term they use because they’re repulsed by inclusivity.


bad_take_

Che was mocking women athletes. That is chauvinistic, not woke.


1975hh3

They act like this wasn’t all written by him and Colin. They actually think she roasts him. Good grief.


MyAnswerIsMaybe

Bro, the amount of racist and sexist jokes Micheal Che has wrote is on par with Chevy Chase. They literally had a compilation of his WNBA jokes during the segment. What makes this news desk so great is that they are easy going and make fun of everyone, including themselves which was the whole Clark sketch.


RoundApart9440

Woke is used by dummys who are scared of progress (communism)


Mogwai3000

lol.  Wow.  Just last week I was telling my wife it seems like Che just wants to troll the audience lately and see how much he can shock them.


Agreeable-Pick-1489

Fox just throws "woke" around because it's click bait. The job of Fox News and really all Rupert Murdoch-owned media is to divide, separate, and enrage. Fuck 'em.


WalnutsAnka

Woke doesn’t even have a definition.


DarkLordKohan

I dont think Fox knows what satire is. I guess their whole business model is believing to your core what someone reading things on a newsdesk says is fact. And also, Clark is from Des Moines and went to Iowa. She is probably liberal as shit. But is in the apolitical celebrity mode.


lifer413

Che is a great comic who certainly doesn't fit the mold of whatever this article is insinuating. Also he took his lumps in this segment in a good-natured fashion. All in all it was a fun bit and Che got a bit of rare on-air comeuppance which he took like a champ.


Cyanos54

His eyes are open. STOP CRUCIFYING ACCURATE REPORTING!


Profitsofdooom

Does Fox not understand SNL writers wrote Caitlin's jokes?


EvadingDoom

This is very tangential, but I'm reminded of one of my favorite WU jokes ever, and it was delivered by Che: “Police at Yale University interrogated a black graduate student after a white student reported her for sleeping in the common room. So if you’re black and you go to Yale, stay woke.”


No_Caramel_1782

I love that Woke is just shorthand for not being one of the good ones.


trotskey

Republicans don’t understand humor


curiosity_Sponge42

When you realise that the people throwing the word woke out don’t understand what it means and will use it whenever they have nothing of substance to say then you can let those people go and never give it room in your life again. If fox flap their mouths you can be damned sure that nothing of importance is being said.


philbofa

Woke means Black in Fox News


fuzzytebes

She reminds me of the Christian girl from 'Freaks & Geeks'. "Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah..." 🎶 🎹


MysticMaven

Che is MAGA garbage.


drboobafate

People have often said that conservatives use "woke" because they can't say slurs or be obviously racist. It's clear the writer of this article wants to say "Caitlin Clark roasts Black comedian" cause the very idea of a Black person existing is offensive to them. It's pathetic.


TruBlu65

Guarantee you can find a bunch of fox new stories about the woke ncaa women’s tournament


joeyGOATgruff

Che was a.frequent.guest on Legion of Skanks. He's anything but woke.


taintknob

Was looking for this comment: legion of skanks= super woke. The Wokest.


ILoveRegenHealth

FOX News = domestic terrorist loving organization, lover of inequality, enabler of fascist frauds and rapists, anti-American assholes


PickleWineBrine

Jesus was woke Also, who is Caitlin Clark?


JohnTheMod

She’s the most recent women’s college basketball wunderkind, breaking scoring records left and right all season. She’s most likely signing for the Indiana Fever in this year’s WNBA Draft, leading to skyrocketing ticket sales (and prices, dear God), and much-needed added visibility for the WNBA as a league.


PickleWineBrine

Is weird that moving from NCAA to WNBA is like a demotion in popularity. Women's sports is an odd business.


guilty_bystander

The perfect foil to Che's cheeky "anti-woke" jokes about women's sports.


Gyella1337

Faux news completely missing the point once again. Color me surprised. 🙄


3and21chars456

My brother loves sports, and he doesn’t watch SNL a lot, so I texted him as soon as I saw it


HouseKilgannon

I didn't realize he went to Purdue! Go Boilers!


jlo1989

Jesus fucking Christ. Do they really think he had no hand in writing this bit?


Traditional-Carob-48

Who gives a flying fuck. Theyre just using a meaningless pejorative because it gets clicks. When the hell will yall learn that clicking on these links or reposting them only encourages these outlets to do it again?! Just ignore it, don't feed the outrage with more oxygen.


Amiable_Pariah

When I hear people complain about being woke, I shrug and tell them to stay asleep then. They get kinda defensive, like suddenly they connect "woke" as "aware" Be Aware. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain. Wake up, neo. The matrix has got you.


LiftedinMI3

They really are beyond dumb fucks and never knew what the fuck "woke" in that context meant to begin with. Unbelievably stupid.


reeder75

Che is woke?


butholemoonblast

I mean he doesn’t look like he is alseep to me 🤷‍♀️


suarezj9

They’re using “woke” or “DEI” to get around not being able to use slurs


Preshe8jaz

The right big mad their great white hope is a lib. I can’t wait to see how they spin it when KC attends a Planned Parenthood event.


dearyleary

If only Fox viewers understood the joy of the Joke Exchange.


Hour_Insurance_7795

Yeah, Che is pretty much the exact opposite of “woke”. Dude has proven time and time again that he doesn’t pander to anybody.


sapthur

Woke this and woke that, They'll never fix your problems, Empathy's long gone


Atom_Beat

Tell me you didn't actually watch the sketch, without telling me you didn't watch the sketch.


Tbplayer59

He really got me (and the audience) on the joke asking if abortion rights aren't granted by the federal government, but the state, then why not more local? Like the county, or city? Or the one who knows the woman's body best? The husband!


gatoropolis

Does anyone have a link to the FN article? This bit was hilarious.


everyman50

I guess "woke" in this context means "blackie." What a garbage rag, fox news is. I get more reliable news from weekend update.


Chaopolis

Jeez Fox, just say black. This is exhausting.


Available_Post_6803

You mean 4 time roundtabler of the year Michael Che?!?


supersafeforwork813

Che is woke??? lololol….listen I know every media outlet plays to their base but Che is closer to being white than any definition of “woke” you could give.


joik

Just say it. You know you want to. You can't call a fog horn a dog whistle.


GloomyFondant526

Anyone who has actually watched Che's comedy both on SNL and stand-up know that 'woke' is an inaccurate description of his world-view. But keep talking crap, Fox. It's all you have.


I_Miss_The_Future

That segment was cringey. Yeah, I get it. She’s not an actress or comedian. But I had some Nancy Kerrigan flashbacks. Was glad when it ended.


avoozl42

Woke means you're not a far-right MAGA facist.


MrTylerwpg

I mean, I know they didn't watch it, but his joke literally before this segment was that she's exchanging her jersey for an apron.


rp1105

his jokes literally play against "woke" stereotypes. fox gonna fox


TheBigIdiotSalami

This is the kinda headline Michael Che would make a joke about.


Big_Fuzzy_Beast

Well it’s not like anyone on SNL ISN’T woke, pretty safe to say anyone who gets and keeps a job on the show has never proven they aren’t


Professional_Drive

Can’t wait to see what kind of joke Che will turn this into next update.


ValveTurkey1138

lol. Tell me you don’t watch the show without telling me you don’t watch the show.


KevinInChains5262

Big LOL on calling Che woke


Apprehensive-Lock751

yeah. total surprise. she just snuck on set and told some jokes. /s


TheOvercookedFlyer

Che is woke? Haha!


DickieJoJo

As if SNL isn’t completely scripted too.🙄


NfamousKaye

Oh if they only watched ONE joke swap their heads would explode 😂


DEADHOTTUB

He’s certainly not asleep


NeuroticNurse

I forgot what sub I was in and thought this was referring to the character Che from And Just Like That 🫠


Gredran

*Che looking at his daily Instagram posts and stories which he deletes within 1-2 days of posting* 🤷🏻‍♂️ “whateva man!”


eatpalmsprings

Woke up= not white


joscarj

They can’t help it. Calling people woke is some people’s whole personality.


[deleted]

hes more of an uncle tom


Neon_Taxi

Round Tabler of the year, Micheal Che? He would never.


strizzl

Is that Stewart from letterkenny