Colin Jost could be very a lot alive, although he might not be completely in a single piece.
Jost, 42, shared a “foot replace” by way of Instagram on Sunday, August 11, after exiting his function as NBC’s Olympics browsing correspondent in Tahiti early. (Jost was changed throughout protection of the semifinals and finals by Australian weatherman Luke Bradnam.)
“‘Dude, are you OK?’ That’s the primary textual content message I’ve acquired within the final 48 hours. Normally adopted by, ‘Heard your foot fell off,’” the Saturday Evening Dwell star mentioned in a video filmed in Malta, the place he’s recuperating from numerous illnesses, together with a foot damage and an ear an infection, which hampered his stint in Tahiti.
“Effectively, I’m truly advantageous, and regardless of what large media conspiracies would have you ever imagine, I wasn’t ‘despatched house’ from the Olympics. NBC merely checked out my foot, declared me legally a leper, and exiled me right here to the island of Malta,” Jost continued.
“Now, Malta doesn’t have many Olympians competing this 12 months, but it surely does have 1000’s of 15-year-old British children competing to see who can black out the quickest — and by some means they’re all successful,” the comic quipped whereas standing in entrance of the ocean. “It additionally has this on line casino behind me the place I’ve blown the a whole lot of {dollars} I earned as a browsing correspondent.”
Jost continued, “However the true motive I’m in Malta, after all, is as a result of it was the positioning of 10 separate bubonic plague outbreaks, so that they thought I’d match proper in.”
The comic mentioned he nonetheless managed to catch the finals of the browsing competitions and congratulated “American phenom Caroline Marks and native Tahitian legend Kauli Vaast” on successful gold.
“I wish to sincerely thank the folks of Tahiti for his or her heat, their generosity, their hospitality, and for under sometimes my foot and whispering, ‘Chupacabra,’” he went on.
“However relaxation assured, my foot is just about completely advantageous though I’m not letting you have a look at it,” he added. “In case you’re involved, I’ll present you the native newspaper with as we speak’s headline so I’m nonetheless alive,” Jost concluded, displaying a Photoshopped entrance web page of a newspaper with the headline: “OJ Discovered Not Responsible.”
Shortly after arriving in Tahiti for his task, Jost suffered a number of cuts to his foot whereas standing barefoot on a coral reef. “This would possibly destroy my WikiFeet rating however I simply arrived in Tahiti for the browsing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me #paris2024 #showfeet,” Jost wrote alongside a photograph of his injured foot shared by way of Instagram on July 26.
Three days later, he shared a photograph of his bandaged toes and captioned it, “ it’s going nice while you’ve been to the Olympic medical tent greater than any of the athletes.”
On July 30, Jost advised NBC’s Mike Tirico that he awoke with an ear an infection along with a staph an infection as a consequence of his foot damage. “My new objective by the point I go away right here is to have as many infections as there are Olympic occasions,” he joked.