Video taking off 18x its usual first day

Colin Jost's straight face meets Michael Che's joke cards

Mr Listify's SNL compilation brings together joke-swap moments when getting through the next line becomes part of the comedy.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 204,309 views a day, 18 times a normal first day on this channel (11,558).

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A cue card about Harriet Tubman is a step too far for Colin Jost. He pauses rather than reading it, turning his attention to the crew member holding it. Elsewhere in the compilation, he simply buries his face.

Those interruptions are the point of Mr Listify's new Short, which collects Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update joke swaps. This is a clips channel's compilation of the show, not a new performance made for Mr Listify. Michael Che supplies jokes for Jost to deliver, and Jost's efforts to maintain his newsreader composure become a running attraction.

The subjects jump from a ChatGPT voice assistant inspired by Scarlett Johansson to an unlikely casting joke involving Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. Che's reaction after a Sinners joke is a particular talking point in the comments, alongside the joke-swap format itself and the pair's working chemistry.

The compilation drew roughly 200,000 views in its first day, around eighteen times Mr Listify's usual start for a Short. Its comment section was also far busier than usual.

It wasn't the channel's only fast starter: another compilation, collecting celebrities pushing back at interviewers, also drew an unusually large first-day audience. But Jost's struggle at the Update desk drew the larger crowd.

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What viewers say

Che going "COLIN!" after the Sinners joke was great lol
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These two are a great team. The joke swap idea was genius! I watch SNL just for the weekend update
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Che made sure Colin worked hard for his money.
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