A new face will be headed to The Daily Show newsroom this summer, and his name is Michael Che.
Che, currently a writer for Saturday Night Live will be leaving the sketch comedy to join the fake news program starting in June, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. This is the second new correspondent The Daily Show has hired this year; Upright Citizens Brigade member Jordan Klepper was brought on to the show last March.
In addition to being a comedy writer, Che has been a practicing stand-up since 2010, according to . Since his debut he has won the title of New York’s Funniest Stand-Up at the New York Comedy Festival, and has performed stand-up on shows like Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers and Chris Hardwick’s @midnight.
Both Che and Klepper come after the exit of John Oliver this past December. Oliver left the Comedy Central program to start work on his own show on HBO, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which premiered Sunday night. The two fresh-faces join the current crew of Jon Stewart’s correspondents which include Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Aasif Mandvi, Al Madrigal and Jessica Williams.