Colin Jost shared his wife Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to his crude “Saturday Night Live” joke about her.
“I’m in trouble, I think, with a lot of people,” the comedian said on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday. “Scarlett was genuinely so shocked.”
Jost, 42, revealed that although the “Black Widow” star, 40, was “obviously surprised,” the NBC sketch comedy show’s team gave her a heads-up.
“They were like, ‘Hey, would you be OK if Michael [Che] made a little, like, kind of vagina joke at some point?’” he said. “She was like, ‘Sure, you know, whatever, I’m open to it.’”
The “Pop Culture Jeopardy!” host confessed he “didn’t know where it was going, and then the graphic came up for Arby’s.”
“And so Scarlett is backstage like, ‘Oh, my God! That’s what it is?’” he recalled.
Fallon called it a “legitimate live moment,” adding that Jost was not “acting at all.”
“I was not. I can’t act that well,” the stand-up star responded.
During the Dec. 21, 2024, episode of “SNL,” Jost and Che, 41, read jokes that they had written for each other during their “Weekend Update” segment.
“I want to dedicate this next joke to my boo, Scarlett Johansson,” Jost hesitantly began as the camera cut to his wife, who watched from backstage.
“No! No! Oh my gosh, she’s so genuinely worried!” he added while breaking character.
“Hey boo, y’all know Scarlett just celebrated her 40th birthday, which means I’m about to get up out of there,” the “Fly Me to the Moon” actor continued, unable to control his laughter as Johansson appeared confused.
“We just had a kid together, and y’all ain’t see no pictures of him yet ’cause he black as hell.”
After a doctored photo of the “Avengers” star and Jost posing with a black child popped up on the screen, the comic could not control his laughter.
Jost also quipped about Johansson’s postpartum lady parts.
“Costco has removed their roast beef sandwich from its menu, but I ain’t tripping,” he said.
“I be eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid. … Nah, nah, I’m just playin’, baby. You know I don’t go downtown! Shiz! That’s gay as hell!”
ScarJo’s mouth dropped open while listening to her husband’s lines.
Jost and Johansson met on the set of “SNL” in 2017 and tied the knot three years later.
In 2021, they welcomed their son, Cosmo.
The Marvel actress also shares daughter Rose, 10, with her ex-husband Romain Dauriac, to whom she was married from 2014 to 2017.
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