"Cmonnnnnnnn..thats not funny?" the "SNL" comedian wrote.
Key points
- Michael Che mocked The Roast of Kevin Hart for hiring a mostly white writing staff.
- "Lets do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 years…who should we get to write it?"
- One of the writers in question responded to Che's remarks on Instagram.
Michael Che wants to say something about Kevin Hart's Netflix roast.
The Saturday Night Live comedian shared a cheeky post on Instagram seemingly mocking the demographics of the writers' room for The Roast of Kevin Hart, which premiered live on Netflix on Sunday.
The first slide of Che's post featured dialogue of an imaginary conversation between two people making key creative decisions about the roast.
"Lets do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 years," he wrote.
"I love that! who should we get to write it?" he wrote on the same slide.
The next slide of the post featured a photo of writers Nick Mullen, J.P. McDade, Mike Lawrence, Dan St. Germain, and Zac Amico at the event. All five writers are white.
Che's final slide read, "cmonnnnnnnn..thats not funny?"
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Hart, Netflix, Mullen, Lawrence, St. Germain, and Amico for comment.
McDade shared Che's post on his Instagram Stories on Tuesday, but only featured the middle slide (featuring the photo of himself and his colleagues without any of Che's commentary). "Don't swipe," McDade wrote atop the image.
It's worth noting that The Roast of Kevin Hart boasted 17 credited writers, several of whom are Black, including Harry Ratchford, Chris Spencer, and Joey Wells.
Amico previously indicated that he and the cohort of writers featured in Che's post were brought onto the project by Shane Gillis, who hosted the roast.
"Got to live my dream writing job and it was even more fun than I imagined," the comedian wrote on Instagram on Monday. "When Shane hired me, Nick, JP, Mike, and Dan I immediately had impostor syndrome, and getting to write every day with them has been a joy and our group chat is the meanest and silliest group of humans who ever lived. I’m overjoyed. Thank you to everyone, and major love to Shane for being a king among men."
St. Germain shared similar remarks in his own post.
"Last night was one of the best nights of my life," he wrote on social media. "Thanks to Shane Gillis for hiring an exclusively gay male monologue staff. Nick, Mike, Zac, JP, and I were living in the vents of the M and M Store in Times Square before Shane brought us to Hollywood, got us warm clothes, and set us up with social workers. Seriously, tho probably the best team of joke writers I’ve ever been a part of. And Shane’s the real deal man."
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Lawrence said that the quintet of writers primarily penned gags for Gillis and Pete Davidson, who stirred controversy for his jokes about Charlie Kirk, Tony Hinchcliffe, and Kanye West.
"Started writing on the Roast of Kevin Hart on April 1st and did not stop until the show started," he wrote on Instagram. "Mainly wrote for Shane and Pete (with other lines here and there) and can’t say enough about how great they were to work with and how much fun it was to write with some of my best friends. We did it! It’s done!"
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