Michael Che says Kanye West apologized for ‘SNL’ rant

Michael Che is opening up about his backstage confrontation with Kanye West.

The comedian, 42, got candid about the rapper’s Donald Trump rant that happened on a “Saturday Night Live” episode in 2018.

During the closing credits, West, who now goes by Ye, 48, gave an impromptu rant about why he wears a Make America Great Again hat and how the liberal media criticizes Donald Trump while also accusing Black comedians of making jokes about Bill Cosby.

At the end of his speech, the rapper alleged that the cast and crew bullied him backstage.

“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 while on SiriusXM’s “The Bonfire” on Thursday.

Their tense exchange was featured in the unauthorized Ye documentary, “In Whose Name.”

The documentary showed Che asking Ye, “Why you gotta call me out on the f–kin’ [stage] if I don’t got a chance to say anything for myself? I’m the Black comedian that made a joke about Cosby.”

“We treat everybody that come in like family, and you’re gonna sell us out?” the comic continued. “We look up to you, we love you. What you got against us?”

However, a year later, Che and Ye crossed paths when Eddie Murphy hosted “SNL” in 2019. 

“Every Black person in Hollywood was at this show,” Che detailed. “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.”

“He’s coming out the elevator bay, and as soon as he sees me, he goes, ‘I owe you an apology,’” he noted. “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.”

Before his rant, which was caught by Chris Rock, Che felt like something was off with Ye.

“It didn’t seem like he was his normal self,” he admitted. “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.”

The Post reached out to Ye’s rep for comment.

“In Whose Name?” offers an inside look at West during the past several years of his life, where things have taken a tumultuous turn for the A-lister.

Directed by first-time filmmaker Nico Ballesteros, the unauthorized doc follows the artist across six years and 3,000 hours of footage. The final cut was ultimately edited down to 106 minutes.

The filming began in 2018 and ended in 2024, and was mostly shot on iPhones.

“In Whose Name?” shared Ye’s battle with bipolar disorder, the breakdown of his marriage to Kim Kardashian and the fallout from his antisemitic remarks about going “death con 3” on Jewish people in 2022.

At one point, Kardashian’s mom, Kris Jenner, and Ye got into a heated conversation about the rapper not taking his medication.

“Y’all demasculated me and made me feel like a piece of s–t. And the only reason you got away with it is because I was medicated,” Ye screamed at her. “I would rather be dead than be on medication.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Jenner, 69, answered, as West began yelling, “It do matter! It does matter! It does matter!”

“It matters to us, and you. It doesn’t matter what the internet says. It matters what we think, Ye,” she replied. “I love you. I don’t want you to be not perfect. I love you. And I want my daughter to love you the way you want her to love you.”