“SNL” star Colin Jost is lastly sharing how that racy “Weekend Update” joke in December went over along with his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, whose vagina he in contrast on-air to a roast beef sandwich from Costco — to raucous laughter from the viewers and himself alike.
“Scarlett was genuinely so shocked,” Jost instructed Jimmy Fallon on Monday’s “Tonight Show.”
The recurring phase by which Jost and his co-star Michael Che write jokes for one another — after which must learn them aloud it doesn’t matter what — left Jost as shocked as his spouse, who was backstage through the broadcast and reacted with a facial features for the ages.
“I was obviously surprised by everything, but they gave her a heads-up,” Jost instructed Fallon. “They were like, ‘Hey, would you be OK if Michael made a little, like, kind of vagina joke at some point?’ And she was like, ‘Sure!’ You know, ‘Whatever, I’m open to it.’”
“I didn’t know where it was going, and then the graphic came up for [Costco],” he continued, prompting audible laughs of recognition from the viewers. “So Scarlett is backstage like, ’Oh my God! That’s what it is?!”
The premise of the joke in query involved Costco eradicating its roast beef sandwich from its menu, and with a picture of the meal showing onscreen behind Jost, he mentioned on the time: “But I ain’t tripping, I be eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.”
Jost and Johansson tied the knot in 2020 and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in 2021.
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Johansson, who mouthed an obvious “Oh my God” from backstage after Jost delivered the R-rated dig, beforehand admitted that the joke swaps are “brutal” and get “worse” yearly — and joked that she blacks out “for that period of the night” each time.
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The Marvel actor nonetheless understands that that is all simply comedy, nonetheless, and praised her husband on “Live with Kelly and Mark” final yr as “a very, very, very great guy.”
“I’m extremely lucky,” Johansson mentioned on the time. “He’s a kind person and he’s hilarious and thoughtful and loving and he’s a great dad and I love him. I feel very, very lucky. But he’s also, he’s got his naughty side. He keeps it interesting.”
