’Tis the season for the annual Saturday Night time Dwell joke swap on “Weekend Replace,” and Michael Che couldn’t let the second move 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 identify pop up on the teleprompter earlier than persevering with. “ChatGPT has launched a brand new voice assistant characteristic impressed by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in Her.”
He continued: “I’ve by no means bothered to look at as a result of with out that physique, what’s the purpose of listening?”
Jost might 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 and Scarlett Johansson. Steve Granitz/WireImage
“So Rabbi Jill,” Jost continued, referring to the non secular determine whom Che invited to sit down in on the phase. “In the event 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 top 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 reside present, which has made Johansson, 39, nervous to look at previously.
“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 crumble,” Johansson beforehand stated throughout a July 2021 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present. “And that’s the joy of SNL and for all audiences, proper? As a result of it’s completely reside.”
Johansson added on the time: “However once you’re emotionally invested in it and never simply entertained by it, it takes on a little bit little bit of a distinct life.”
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The Marvel actress met Jost when she hosted an episode of SNL they usually began relationship in 2017. Johansson and Jost wed three years later, one 12 months earlier than welcoming son Cosmo. (Johansson additionally shares daughter Rose from a earlier relationship.)
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson. Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Pictures
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 12 months marks the primary time since 2009 {that a} Marvel film has not kicked off the summer season 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 forged member Pete Davidson in 2022 that they plan to renovate and rework into an leisure venue.
Saturday Night time Dwell airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
