Colin Jost was strong-armed into making his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, the butt of a joke he was pressured to ship on ‘SNL’ … and he has his good pal Michael Che to thank for it.
Last 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’s one of many higher bits on the present lately, 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 stated would function the one approach he can get by means of ScarJo’s “little artwork films” … with a flash to an OTS graphic of her in “Black Widow.”
It was a fairly 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.
Of course, 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 stated, “I’m kidding, honey. I like your entire films. And in case you ask me, you are a good higher Black widow than Coretta Scott King.”
The funniest half about all of Colin’s jokes — which had been written to be fairly racist in opposition to Black folks — is that Che introduced out a (pretend) civil rights activist to sit down subsequent to him whereas he delivered all of those … and Che ribbed him about it every time.
Definitely received huge laughs … and definitely definitely worth the year-long wait. ‘SNL’ is again in January.