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Scarlett Johansson Says She Wouldn’t Have Dated Colin Jost in High School

’Tis the season for the annual Saturday Evening Dwell joke swap on “Weekend Replace,” and Michael Che couldn’t let the second cross with out together with a reference to Colin Jost’s spouse, Scarlett Johansson.

“Oh, God,” Jost, 41, quipped on Saturday, Might 18, when he first noticed his spouse’s title pop up on the teleprompter earlier than persevering with. “ChatGPT has launched a brand new voice assistant function impressed by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her.”

He continued: “I’ve by no means bothered to observe as a result of with out that physique, what’s the purpose of listening?”

Jost may barely preserve a straight face whereas studying the joke aloud, rapidly burying his face in his palms.

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Che, 41, laughed off Jost’s obvious discomfort earlier than proclaiming that there was nonetheless extra to the joke.

Colin Jost Gets Embarrassed to Read 'SNL' Joke About Wife Scarlett Johansson's Body 

Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson.
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“So Rabbi Jill,” Jost continued, referring to the non secular determine whom Che invited to sit down in on the section. “When you’re right here, who’s controlling the climate?”

Jost and Che have co-anchored “Weekend Replace” since 2014’s season 40 of SNL. Each Christmas — and to have fun the tip of the printed season prefer it was on Saturday, which Jake Gyllenhaal hosted — the pair commerce jokes. Neither comic can get a preview of what the opposite wrote earlier than the stay present, which has made Johansson, 39, nervous to observe up to now.

“I now hardly ever watch [SNL] with out having a way of … not overwhelming panic, identical to a slight underwhelming panic as a result of I simply really feel like at any second one thing’s going to disintegrate,” Johansson beforehand stated throughout a July 2021 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present. “And that’s the thrill of SNL and for all audiences, proper? As a result of it’s completely stay.”

Johansson added on the time: “However while you’re emotionally invested in it and never simply entertained by it, it takes on a little bit little bit of a unique life.”

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The Marvel actress met Jost when she hosted an episode of SNL they usually began courting in 2017. Johansson and Jost wed three years later, one yr earlier than welcoming son Cosmo. (Johansson additionally shares daughter Rose from a earlier relationship.)

Colin Jost Gets Embarrassed to Read 'SNL' Joke About Wife Scarlett Johansson's Body 

Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson.
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Since their marriage ceremony, Johansson has change into a frequent supply of joke materials for Jost. Two weeks in the past, he referenced Johansson because the breadwinner of the family.

“This yr marks the primary time since 2009 {that a} Marvel film has not kicked off the summer time film season,” Jost deadpanned in the course of the Might 11 episode of SNL. “[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 had bought a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat with former solid member Pete Davidson in 2022 that they plan to renovate and rework into an leisure venue.

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

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