Michael Che says Ye apologized to him after SNL Trump rant: 'I didn't even know if he remembered ...

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"He was like, 'I owe you an apology.' And we talked and I never brought it up again," the comedian revealed.

Michael Che says Ye apologized to him after SNL Trump rant: 'I didn't even know if he remembered that that happened'

"He was like, 'I owe you an apology.' And we talked and I never brought it up again," the comedian revealed.

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Michael Che on 'Saturday Night Live'; Ye at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2025. Credit:

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- Michael Che said that Ye apologized to him a year after his infamous pro-Trump rant on *Saturday Night Live*.

- Che and Ye crossed paths during the 2019 *SNL* Christmas episode hosted by Eddie Murphy.

- The comedian said that Ye "didn't seem like he was his normal self" prior to the rant.

Michael Che's backstage confrontation with Ye was recently revealed in a documentary about the artist formerly known as Kanye West — and now, the comedian is sharing new details about the fallout from their tense conversation.

Che reflected on the incident during an interview with SiriusXM's *The Bonfire* on Thursday, revealing that the rapper later apologized for his infamous pro-Trump rant that occurred during the closing moments of a 2018 *Saturday Night Live* episode.

During his performance of "Ghost Town" on the Sept. 29, 2018, episode of *SNL* hosted by Adam Driver, Ye launched into an impromptu speech in which he defended wearing a Make America Great Again hat, argued that liberal media spends too much energy criticizing Donald Trump, called out Black comedians for wanting to make jokes about Bill Cosby (while gesturing toward Che), and accused the *SNL* cast and crew of bullying him backstage.

Kanye West on 'SNL' in 2018.

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"When that happened, and he made it seem like we was bullying him, I was like, 'Why would you say that?' Like, what happened that you felt that way?" Che recalled of his conversation with Ye, which was recently publicized in the documentary *In Whose Name*.

A representative for Ye did not immediately respond to **'s request for comment.

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The documentary shows Che asking Ye, "Why you gotta call me out on the f---in' [stage] if I don't got a chance to say anything for myself?" as he notes, "I'm the Black comedian that made a joke about Cosby."

Che also repeatedly tells Ye that his rant was "f---ed up," and defended the *SNL* team while asking him why he slammed them on live TV.

"We treat everybody that come in like family, and you're gonna sell us out?" Che asks in the doc footage. "We look up to you, we love you. What you got against us?"

During his appearance on *The Bonfire*, Che said that he crossed paths with Ye again a year later when Eddie Murphy hosted *SNL* on Dec. 21, 2019.

"Every Black person in Hollywood was at this show," Che explained. "I had a lot in that show, and I was running around crazy and people were just in my dressing room kind of using it as their green room. I had no place to really go."

Michael Che and Eddie Murphy on 'SNL' in 2019.

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Che's inability to use his dressing room led him to the hallway, where he ran into Ye. "He's coming out the elevator bay, and as soon as he sees me, he goes, 'I owe you an apology,'" Che recalled. "And I hadn't seen him in years. I didn't even know if he remembered that that happened because he was saying so much. And he was like, 'I owe you an apology.' And we talked and I never brought it up again."

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Elsewhere in the interview, Che said that he and his *SNL* compatriots recognized that Ye was acting unusual prior to the 2018 rant. "It didn't seem like he was his normal self," the comedian reflected. "Because he'd been at the show a million times. So it seemed like he was kind of not behaving like himself. So we were just like, 'What's going on?' We were trying very hard."

Watch Che's conversation with *The Bonfire* above.**

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