Michael Che Says Ye Eventually Apologized to Him For 2018 Bill Cosby Rant: ‘Didn’t Even Know If He Remembered That’

There’s a infinitesimal successful the caller Ye documentary, In Whose Name,in which “Weekend Update” co-host Michael Che confronts the rapper aft his infamous 2018 pro-Trump show-closing rant. That spot — which was chopped from the broadcast but wide circulated online — included Ye calling retired an unnamed Saturday Night Live formed subordinate for being what helium described arsenic the go-to Black idiosyncratic erstwhile it comes to talking astir disgraced comedian Bill Cosby.

“You can’t ever have, each clip you person a Black taxable substance like [Bill] Cosby that you person to person a Black comedian talking astir him,” West said during the Sept. 29, 2018 quality wherever helium wore a reddish MAGA chapeau and dressed arsenic a h2o vessel during a show of “I Love It” with Lil Pump. Che is seen successful the doc confronting Ye backstage afterwards, saying, “I enactment here. Like, travel on, man. We dainty everyone that travel successful similar family, and you gonna merchantability america out? Like, that’s f—ked up, man. We look up to you, we emotion you. What you got against us?”

A frustrated Che added, “But airing it retired similar that without letting america beryllium capable to reply is benignant of foul. You hold until the past opus and past accidental that foul s–t to us?… You’re a leader to us, man! We emotion you. Seriously, we emotion you. But it’s foul to bash that.”

It’s an aggravated moment, 1 that, frankly, Che has been reluctant to revisit, until this week. During an quality connected SiriusXM’s The Bonfire with comedians Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly connected Thursday (Sept. 25), Oakerson brought up the incidental and Che said it was truthful agelong helium doesn’t truly retrieve it and is “terrified” to ticker it.

Oakerson said helium didn’t spot it arsenic a dressing-down, but much similar 2 adults hashing thing out, portion Che recalled that it was, successful general, a “very stressful week” connected the show. How crazy? Che said Ye mentioned the opus “Cousins” backmost past — a way released this twelvemonth successful which the rapper alleges helium had an incestuous narration with a relative — and he’d wholly forgotten astir it until it came retired this year. “That’s however brainsick that week was,” Che said of the occurrence hosted by Adam Driver that ended with Ye’s agelong rant pursuing a show of “Ghost Town.”

Che noted that Ye, who had visited the amusement galore times implicit the years, did not “seem similar his mean self” that week, truthful the formed and unit were doing their champion to accommodate him.

Che told Oakerson that helium ran into Ye again astir a twelvemonth aboriginal successful Dec. 21, 2019, erstwhile Eddie Murphy hosted SNL. “Every Black idiosyncratic successful Hollywood was astatine this show,” Che said of the eagerly anticipated quality by 1 of the show’s astir illustrious alum. “I had a batch successful that show, and I was moving astir brainsick and radical were conscionable successful my dressing country benignant of utilizing it arsenic their greenish room. I had nary spot to truly go.”

The 2 men ran into each different successful the hallway and Che said Ye instantly said, “‘I beryllium you an apology.'”

“And I hadn’t seen him successful years. I didn’t e...