There was Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers. So when Colin Jost, 34, and Michael Che, 33, started coanchoring Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update in 2014, yeah, they were intimidated: “It was nerve-racking, man!” says Che. But clearly they only needed time to get comfortable behind the desk, because now their onscreen bromance is blossoming. Like every great couple, Jost and Che balance each other: Jost’s preppy playing against Che’s chill, Jost’s smirk against Che’s deadpan. They laugh at each other’s wisecracks and even hang out outside the office, all the while giving us a new, funny perspective on real (not fake) news. Glamour joined the duo at their 30 Rock offices in New York City to talk about being yourself at work.

GLAMOUR: You guys have hosted Update for two-and-some years. When did you feel like it really started working?

MICHAEL: I think when you first get a job, you’re just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.

COLIN: Yeah. At first, you’re scared of ruining it.

MICHAEL: Which is, ironically, the way to ruin it—by being afraid.

COLIN: [Laughter.] And then you’re excited to change it.

MICHAEL: It’s like a stepdad coming into a new family. The kids are like, “Well, we miss Dad.” After a while, you’re like, “Look, I’m not going anywhere. I’m going to love you the way I want to love you.”

COLIN: “Sorry I can’t drink like your old dad did.” [Laughter.]

GLAMOUR: You guys hit your stride just in time for the election…

COLIN: To our credit, early on, when people were like, “Trump’s a joke; he’s going to lose,” we were like, “Guys, really, watch it….” ’Cause on the road, when we do stand-up, people would always say, “What do you think about Donald Trump?” If you said, “He’s crazy,” they’d be like, “Yeah, he’s crazy.” But if you said, “I don’t know—he seems interesting,” they would be like, “That’s really what I think.”

MICHAEL: No one ever asked me what I thought of him on the road.

COLIN: No one asked you on the golf course? Wow.

MICHAEL: So strange, Colin. [Laughter.]

GLAMOUR: You guys always laugh at each other’s jokes. Did it take time to realize you could be yourselves up there?

COLIN: For me, certainly. I mean, [comedy] is frightening at first because you’re opening yourself up. When it’s just you and people hate it, you’re like, “Oh God. Do they hate me?”

MICHAEL: It’s a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers. Now multiply that by about 10 million people watching, with typewriters. Do people use typewriters?

COLIN: [Laughter.] The Internet’s famously done on typewriters.

GLAMOUR: We don’t all have typewriters. Just some of us. Michael, do you feel that, because you’re the first black Weekend Update host, there’s all this comedy that you can touch that nobody could touch before?

COLIN: You’re the first black comedian.

MICHAEL: And the last. [Laughter.] Nah, but people are like, “Oh, why do they talk about race?” Like, “Well, I don’t know. A black guy has a platform that no one’s ever had. And some black kid gets shot once a week, maybe. I don’t know. Might come up.”

COLIN: Might have something to do with it.