Colin Jost shared his wife Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to his crude “Saturday Night Live” joke about her.
“I’m in trouble, I think, with a lot of people,” the comedian said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday. “Scarlett was genuinely so shocked.”
Jost, 42, revealed that although the “Black Widow” star, 40, was “obviously surprised,” the NBC sketch comedy show’s team gave her a heads-up.
“They were like, ‘Hey, would you be OK if Michael [Che] made a little, like, kind of vagina joke at some point?’” he said. “She was like, ‘Sure, you know, whatever, I’m open to it.’”
The “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” host confessed he “didn’t know where it was going, and then the graphic came up for Arby’s.”
“And so Scarlett is backstage like, ‘Oh, my God! That’s what it is?’” he recalled.
Fallon called it a “legitimate live moment,” adding that Jost was not “acting at all.”
“I was not. I can’t act that well,” the stand-up star responded.
During the Dec. 21, 2024, episode of “SNL,” Jost and Che, 41, read jokes that they had written for each other during their “Weekend Update” segment.
“I want to dedicate this next joke to my boo, Scarlett Johansson,” Jost hesitantly began as the camera cut to his wife, who watched from backstage.
“No! No! Oh my gosh, she’s so genuinely worried!” he added while breaking character.
“Hey boo, y’all know Scarlett just celebrated her 40th birthday, which means I’m about to get up out of there,” the “Fly Me to the Moon” actor continued, unable to control his laughter as Johansson appeared confused.
“We just had a kid together, and y’all ain’t see no pictures of him yet ’cause he black as hell.”
After a doctored photo of the “Avengers” star and Jost posing with a black child popped up on the screen, the comic could not control his laughter.
Jost also quipped about Johansson’s postpartum lady parts.
“Costco has removed their roast beef sandwich from its menu, but I ain’t tripping,” he said.
“I be eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid. … Nah, nah, I’m just playin’, baby. You know I don’t go downtown! Shiz! That’s gay as hell!”
ScarJo’s mouth dropped open while listening to her husband’s lines.
Jost and Johansson met on the set of “SNL” in 2017 and tied the knot three years later.
In 2021, they welcomed their son, Cosmo.
The Marvel actress also shares daughter Rose, 10, with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac, to whom she was married from 2014 to 2017.
Colin Jost, co-head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor on Saturday Night Live, recently shared his fiancée Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to a joke he made about her on the show.
During a recent episode, Jost made a playful jab at Johansson, saying, “Scarlett Johansson is set to star in a new film called ‘Bride,’ where she plays a woman created to be the ideal wife. The film is actually a remake of Scarlett’s first marriage.”
Jost revealed that he was nervous about how Johansson would react to the joke, but to his relief, she found it hilarious. “She has a great sense of humor and knows that it’s all in good fun,” Jost said.
Fans of the couple were delighted to hear that Johansson took the joke in stride, showing that their relationship is built on trust and a shared sense of humor.
It’s always refreshing to see a celebrity couple who can laugh at themselves and not take things too seriously. Kudos to Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson for keeping the laughter alive both on and off the screen.
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