SNL Recap: Colin Jost Needs Scarlett Johansson’s Money for His Ferry

Colin Jost may be very completely satisfied to be Mr. Scarlett Johansson and enjoys all of the perks that include it.

“This yr marks the primary time since 2009 {that a} Marvel film has not kicked off the summer time film season,” Jost, 41, deadpanned throughout the Saturday, Might 11, episode of Saturday Evening Dwell in its ‘Weekend Replace” phase. “[It] higher be a one-time factor as a result of lots of people depend on Marvel films to pay for the ferries they purchased.”

Jost’s cohost, Michael Che, merely shook his head in response.

Jost has been married to Johansson, 39, since 2020 after assembly her on the set of SNL. Whereas Jost is greatest often known as a comic and head author for the NBC selection present, Johansson is an acclaimed actress. She has starred as Black Widow within the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2010.

Johansson’s MCU character acquired an eponymous prequel in 2021. Since then, Marvel, which is owned by Disney, rearranged its movie slate to delay a number of upcoming initiatives. It’s not identified if Johansson will reprise her position in any future Marvel challenge.

Jost, in the meantime, stars on SNL weekly. As well as, he and former solid member Pete Davidson are fixing up a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat, which they purchased in 2022, to remodel it into an leisure venue. (Each Jost and Davidson, 30, hail from Staten Island, a borough of New York Metropolis.)

“Is it worse that I used to be really stone-cold sober after we purchased the ferry?” Jost joked through Instagram in June 2023. “We’re excited to show the non-believers fallacious. You’re going to be BEGGING to get on this ferry in two years. Mark my phrases.”

Later that month, Davidson supplied followers a touch on the pair’s building plans.

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“We simply received all of the plans constructed, and we had them do a type of computer-generated, ‘Present you what it could possibly be’ kind issues, and now we’re out to some folks,” Davidson mentioned throughout an look on the “Household Journeys with the Meyers Brothers” podcast. “And it looks like it’s all going properly, however it’s positively like 5 years away.”

He continued, “There’ll be a restaurant, there’ll be a live performance venue, there’ll be a movie show [and a couple of hotel rooms]. … We jokingly named it the Titanic 2 on the LLC after we had to purchase it. I can’t take full credit score for that.”

In accordance with Davidson, they bought the “largest ferry” within the retired fleet. “I’m simply glad it’s not turned to scrap or no matter,” the Bupkis alum added on the time. “It’s really humorous that this can be a lifelong drawback for me and Colin.”

Saturday Evening Dwell airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.