Colin Jost might live to regret his latest “joke swap” with Michael Che on Saturday Night Live.
On December 21, Scarlett Johansson spent the evening watching her husband make jokes at her expense, as part of a “Weekend Update” tradition. During these joke swaps, the co-hosts read jokes written by the other without prior notice or approval. “I know Michael is going to make me tell some racist jokes, like he always does,” Jost prepped the audience, though he should have also expected Che to pen multiple bits about his famous wife.
“I want to dedicate this next joke to my boo, Scarlett Johansson,” Jost reads off the prompter before cameras switch over to the Marvel actor, who was watching the broadcast outside the studio. “She’s so genuinely worried,” he noted. Hmm…I wonder why?
“Hey, boo. Y’all know Scarlett just celebrated her 40th birthday, which means I’m about to get up out of there,” Jost begrudgingly began. “No, I’m just playin’. We just had a kid together, and y’all ain’t see no pictures of him yet cause he Black as hell.”
Johansson and Jost have been married since 2020 and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in 2021. The Black Widow star also shares a 10-year-old daughter, Rose Dorothy, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
While that first joke elicited a few head shakes and an “oh shit” from Johansson, it paled in comparison to Jost’s next bit. Honestly, I don’t even feel comfortable typing out the series of jokes, which involved roast beef sandwiches and oral sex…Just know that this was Johansson’s immediate reaction:
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