‘SNL’ Star Colin Jost Finally Shares How That Daring December ‘Weekend Update’ Prank Happened With His Wife, Scarlett Johansson, Whose Vagina He Compared On-Air to a Costco Roast Beef Sandwich – to the loud laughter of the audience and himself the same.
“Scarlett was really, really shocked,” Jost told Jimmy Fallon on Monday’s “Tonight Show.”
The recurring segment in which Jost and co-star Michael Che write jokes for each other — and then have to read them out loud no matter what — left Jost as stunned as his wife, who was in backstage during the show and reacted with a facial expression. for the ages.
“I was obviously surprised by everything, but they warned him,” Jost told Fallon. “They were like, ‘Hey, would it be okay if Michael made a little vagina joke at some point?’ And she said to me: “Of course! You know, ‘Whatever, I’m open to it.’
“I didn’t know where this was going, and then the graphic came up for (Costco),” he continued, drawing audible laughs of recognition from the audience. “So Scarlett is backstage and says, ‘Oh my God! Is that it?!”
The premise of the joke in question involved Costco removing its roast beef sandwich from its menu, and with an image of the meal appearing on screen behind Jost, he said at the time: “But I don’t trip, I eat roast beef every day. night since my wife had the child.
Jost and Johansson married in 2020 and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in 2021.
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Johansson, who uttered an apparent “Oh my God” backstage after Jost delivered the R-rated dig, previously admitted the joke exchanges were “brutal” and got “worse” every year – and joked that that she fainted “during that time of the night” every time.
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The Marvel actor understands it’s all an act, however, and praised her husband on “Live with Kelly and Mark” last year as “a very, very, very great guy.”
“I’m extremely lucky,” Johansson said at the time. “He’s a kind, hilarious, caring, loving person, he’s a great dad and I love him. I feel very, very lucky. But he is also, he has his nasty side. He keeps it interesting.
