Live from New York, it’sMichael Chemastering the art of quiet quitting.

“I feel like I did it at least eight years, maybe more,” Jost said.

“We did it together at least five.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Episode 1852 – Pictured: (l-r) Anchor Colin Jost and anchor Michael Che during Weekend Update on Saturday, December 16, 2023

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“That’s not true,” Che replied.

“Colin is really good at it.

He’s kind of always stayed a sort of leader in the writers' room.

But I wasn’t doing the job.”

I slept like a baby, Howard,” Che joked.

“It was fine.

Id do it again in a heartbeat.”

The head writer gig was “very undefined,” Jost later explained on the program.

“And it varies a lot depending on who the person is doing it.

But in some ways, youre just kind of leading by example.

“Its not true,” Jost said.

“People dont know what either of us have written.

Che quipped in response, “Are you drunk?”

“You have, you know,” Jost said.

“But he wouldnt say that.

He doesnt like to say this, but he does.”

Jost has been withSNLsince 2005, joining first as a writer and later becoming a cast member in 2014.

Che joined in 2013, also starting as a writer before becoming a cast member the following year.