Saturday Night Live stars Colin Jost and Michael Che gave a few surprising choices for their “white whale” SNL hosts.

The two “Weekend Update” co-anchors appeared on ManningCast Monday in the third quarter of the Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers game. Peyton Manning asked them to each name their dream pick for a future SNL host.

“I would say Denzel Washington,“ Che answered. ”I think Denzel, of all of the great movies that he’s done, we so rarely get to see him just be funny and silly.“

Che continued, “And he’s one of the greatest American actors. It would be really cool to see him finally do it once.”

“And a great theater actor,” Jost added.

Che agreed, saying, “He’s played down the block a ton of times, so it would be really cool to see what he does [on SNL] in a way tha

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