Colin Jost was strong-armed into making his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, the butt of a joke he was compelled to ship on ‘SNL’ … and he has his good pal Michael Che to thank for it.
Final evening was the sketch comedy sequence’ final present of the yr, and each Christmas — the 2 “Weekend Update” hosts have a practice of writing jokes for each other that the opposite hasn’t seen … however has to learn in entrance of the viewers as if it is coming straight from them.
It is one of many higher bits on the present today, and 2023’s iteration did not disappoint — particularly for one crack Che made Colin learn … on the expense of his A-lister partner.
The premise was highlighting a brand new NY regulation that now permits film theaters to serve booze — which Colin then mentioned would function the one approach he can get via ScarJo’s “little art movies” … with a flash to an OTS graphic of her in “Black Widow.”
It was a reasonably sick burn (from Che) and the viewers undoubtedly appeared to note … cackling and dropping the collective “OOOOOHHHHHHH” to suggest how wild it was that her hubby was saying that.
After all, it is all in good enjoyable … and Colin rolled with it, together with studying the tail finish of Che’s edgy joke for him — during which he mentioned, “I’m kidding, honey. I love all of your movies. And if you ask me, you’re an even better Black widow than Coretta Scott King.”
The funniest half about all of Colin’s jokes — which had been written to be fairly racist towards Black folks — is that Che introduced out a (faux) civil rights activist to take a seat subsequent to him whereas he delivered all of those … and Che ribbed him about it each time.
Undoubtedly received huge laughs … and positively well worth the year-long wait. ‘SNL’ is again in January.
