Saturday Night Live has been going strong for more than half a century now, with creator Lorne Michaels still heavily involved in bringing the sketch comedy to late night each week in the 2025 TV schedule. While that presumably won’t change as this year winds down towards the 2026 TV schedule, a former SNL intern went off on the atmosphere allegedly created by Lorne Michaels behind the scenes. Weekend Update co-host Michael Che, who has been working on the show going back to 2013, clapped back… a couple of months later.
It’s no secret that producing SNL week in and week out is a stressful endeavor, so when a former Saturday Night Live intern comes forward to talk about that element of working on the show, it’s not particularly surprising. The way in which this former intern, named Megan McDermott, did it is more unexpected, and perhaps the reason why Michael Che felt the need to respond two months after she originally posted her three-minute video on Instagram.
