Jost forced to joke about Scarjo's body on SNL finale
Colin Jost was forced to crack a joke aimed at his wife Scarlett Johansson as he and his Weekend Update co-host Michael Che took part in their “joke swap” tradition during Saturday Night Live's Season 49 finale.
The ongoing segment features Jost and Che reading surprise gags the other has prepared in secret. This past Saturday, Che had his longtime screen partner blushing when he read aloud a wisecrack about his spouse.
“CHATGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson's AI character in Her,” Jost began. “Which I've never bothered to watch, because without that body, what's the point of listening.”
The 2013 dramedy follows Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with his female AI, voiced by Johansson (who never appears onscreen).
Earlier this season, Jost was tricked into reading another quip directed at Johansson. “New York State now allows movie theatres to sell alcohol,” Jost read during an episode last December. “Which is how I'm finally able to enjoy my wife's little art movies,” he said as a picture of Johansson in Marvel's Black Widow flashed onscreen. “I'm kidding, honey,” he continued, embarrassingly. “I love all of your movies. And If you asked me, you're an even better Black Widow than Coretta Scott King.”
Back in 2020, Jost also poked fun at the casting controversies over Johansson being hired to lead the big screen adaptation of the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell and the announcement that she was considering playing a transgender man in Rub & Tug. “It was announced that Creed singer Scott Stapp will play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming movie. But the good news is, Sammy Davis Jr. will be played by Scarlett Johansson,” Jost said.
Johansson and Jost met when she hosted SNL back in 2006. The pair started dating in 2017 and wed in 2020. They welcomed their first son, Cosmo, in 2021 (Johansson is also mom to daughter Rose Dorothy, whom she shares with former husband Romain Dauriac). “Colin is an extremely handson dad, he always makes a big fuss over little Cosmo,” a source told Us Weekly in October 2022.