STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- He's pretty funny "for a Staten Islander."

That was the takeaway for MSNBC's Chris Matthews, who caught up with proud Staten Islander Colin Jost and his Weekend Update counterpart Michael Che during the Republican National Convention.

The two "Saturday Night Live" parody news hosts hit Cleveland for some comedic relief, but their appearance with the veteran Hardball host was less Trump, more borough-bashing.

It all started when, in some kind of rant about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Matthews began to rip our neighbor state, thinking he'd have a couple of New Yorkers on his side. Jost enters with the start of some good-natured Staten Island jesting: "I'm from Staten Island, so it's the one place that can't make fun of Jersey."

Throughout the segment, seemingly whenever Matthews runs out of things to say, the trio returns to the Republican voters of Staten Island, who overwhelmingly voted for Trump in the state's primaries.

"Staten Island is like 70s 80s Republicans," Jost explains. "It's just like a lost world. It's not that they're not smart, they just have that way of life -- it's still a small town, it's nice."

I'm just going to leave that right there.

Matthews did get a few digs in at Che's Lower East Side upbringing, to be fair. But I'd say about 75 percent of this was aimed at Staten Island.

Watch the whole segment here:

Jost and Che also two did a special "Weekend Update" summing up the events and the culture at the Republican Convention, ripping into Nominee Donald Trump, his less-well-known VP selection Mike Pence and the general lack of diversity of the convention-goers. The two will appear again on July 27 on MSNBC for the Democratic National Convention.

So can we expect the same sick burns in Philadelphia?

"Philly thinks that we're going to be on their side and that's going to be a lot of fun," Che told Matthews.

Here's more from their "Weekend Update" bit: