Colin Jost cracks joke about wife Scarlett Johansson in Weekend Update

Saturday Evening Are living stars Colin Jost and Michael Che took turns cracking some hilarious and stunning jokes of their annual “Weekend Update” shaggy dog story switch.

All over the area, which aired on Saturday 18 Would possibly, the “Weekend Update” co-hosts each and every wrote jokes for the alternative in order with out sight them previously. The area has develop into a fan favorite, with this yr’s skit marking the top of SNL’s forty ninth season.

In sequence with the custom, Che tricked Jost into poking amusing at his spouse Scarlett Johansson, inflicting Jost to squirm in discomfort. “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her,” a anxious Jost instructed audience. “Which I’ve never bothered to watch, because without that body what’s the point of listening?”

The daddy-of-two straight away blast into laughter, past additionally hiding his face in his fingers out of embarrassment.

In other places all the way through “Weekend Update”, Jost made Che problem rapper Kendrick Lamar amid his rap pork with Drake. “Speaking of b**ches, I want to call up the biggest b**ch of all, Kendrick Lamar,” Che mentioned, shaking his head on the cue playing cards and exclaiming, “No!”

“Your war with Drake may be over, but your war with Michael Che is just beginning. So to quote Hamilton, ‘Shoot your shot, player,’” he added. The comic later counseled his “Weekend Update” co-host for the awe jab, telling Jost: “That was pretty well done, man.”

This isn’t the primary life Jost’s dating with Johansson has been the topic of a few a laugh moments on SNL. Again in 2020, Che as soon as once more tricked Jost into mocking his spouse all the way through their signature shaggy dog story switch through creating a quip in regards to the actor’s pace casting controversies. Within the shaggy dog story, Jost reported on Creed frontman Scott Stapp’s casting as Frank Sinatra in a Ronald Reagan biopic, together with the punchline: “But the good news is Sammy Davis Jr will be played by Scarlett Johansson.”

The Twilight Widow megastar got here below hearth for portraying a Eastern personality within the 2017 live-action adaptation of Ghost within the Shell. She additionally ended up retreating from the movie Swab and Snatch later dealing with backlash when she used to be solid as a trans male gangster.

In 2021, SNL alum Jason Sudeikis additionally teased Jost about his marriage to Johansson when he gave the impression because the satan all the way through a “Weekend Update” area. “I’ve been busy, baby,” he instructed Jost, taking credit score for one of the maximum horrific trends of the pace few years.

When the host requested him what he have been operating on in recent years, Sudeikis’s satan spoke back: “Oh, man, so many little side projects. Earthquakes, got some killer storms, Instagram for kids – trying to get it off the ground. Oh! And the climate.”

After on all the way through the skit, Sudeikis’s personality requested Jost to shoot again a sequence, jokingly threatening him: “You take it back, Colin, or I swear, I will go back on our deal to let you marry Scarlett.”

Jost and Johansson met again in 2010, when the Misplaced in Translation megastar hosted SNL for the primary life. The pair later sparked up a dating in 2017, following Johansson’s dissolution from French journalist Romain Dauriac. They introduced their engagement in 2019.

In October 2020, the couple join the knot all the way through an intimate rite amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Lower than one yr after, Jost introduced they’d welcomed their first kid in combination, a son named Cosmo.

Johansson additionally stocks her eight-year-old daughter Rose with ex Dauriac. The previous couple had been married from 2014 to 2017. The Asteroid Town megastar used to be in the past married to actor Ryan Reynolds from 2008 to 2011.