From their podcast to a Viceland show and now to a major new Showtime slot, the outspoken pair have found a way to make late-night TV feel fresh again
Last year, when Amazon broke the news that Long Island City in Queens would host its new headquarters, New Yorkers cried foul over the head-spinning tax breaks and the irreparable harm its corporate presence would do to the area’s cultural identity. Not quite so bothered were Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost, who first suggested that Queens would be the harmful influence on Amazon and not the other way round (cut to graphic of a package dressed in leopard-print clothing).
Jost then added: “Only New Yorkers could complain about getting 25,000 new jobs. All the cities who lost out must be like, ‘Shut up, you whiny bitches.’ New York basically won the lottery and thought, ‘Well, the subways will be more crowded.’”
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