Colin Jost Admits This Outrageous SNL Joke Landed Him In Trouble With Wife Scarlett Johansson
Even after a "heads-up" from producers, the two-time Oscar nominee was "genuinely so shocked" by the one-liner
Saturday Night Live comic Colin Jost has admitted he got himself in a spot of trouble with a rather graphic joke at his wife Scarlett Johanssonâs expense last month.
For SNLâs annual Christmas episode, Colin and his Weekend Update co-host Michael Che prepared near-the-knuckle jokes for one another to read out live on air, which they were not allowed to see ahead of time.
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During Colinâs section, he was given jokes about his Oscar nominee wife to read out â all while she watched on stunned from backstage.
âI want to dedicate this next joke to my boo Scarlett Johnasson,â he read from the prompter, while a âgenuinely worriedâ Scarlett was seen watching on the monitor.
âHey, boo,â Colin continued. âYâall know Scarlett just celebrated her 40th birthday, which means Iâm about to get up out of there.â
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Later in the segment, Colin sparked a stunned reaction from Scarlett when he continued with another joke written by his co-host, which weâll spare you the details of, but it involved comparing a certain part of his wifeâs anatomy to a particular meat dish.
Scarlett Johansson backstage at SNL
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During an interview on Mondayâs edition of The Tonight Show, host Jimmy Fallon asked Colin if the quip had landed him âin trouble with Scarlettâ, to which he responded: âIâm in trouble, I think, with a lot of people.â
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âScarlett was genuinely so shocked,â he revealed. âI was obviously surprised by everything, but they gave her a heads-up, they were like, âhey, would you be OK if Michael made a little kind of vagina joke at some point?â. And sheâs like, âsure, whatever, Iâm open to itâ.
âAnd then [for me] it was the opposite, I didnât know where it was going, and then the graphic came upâŠâ
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Colin and Scarlett have been married for almost five years, and have a son, who was born in August 2021.
She also has a 10-year-old daughter from her previous relationship with ex-fiancé Romain Dauriac.
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