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TO Saturday night live The season is not complete without a joke, however subtle, dedicated to Colin Jostwife, actress Scarlett Johansson.
On the Saturday, December 14 episode, cast member Andrew Dismukes He offered a brief joke about Johansson, 40, being the breadwinner in his and Jost’s marriage.
Dismukes, 29, played a “bald man” during the “Weekend Update” segment, and shared his thoughts on the new UK court ruling banning harassment of men with hair loss issues. At one point, Dismukes pretended to use a towel to wipe his bare head.
“Do you think this is funny, Colin? I have to carry a little shame in case my head gets wet,” Dismukes joked. “(I) dare you to laugh. I love seeing your butt in court.”
He added: “My little hairless hands on some of your wife’s Marvel money!”
Jost, 42, quickly interrupted Dismukes to end the segment, as he burst out laughing.
Jost, the co-host of SNL‘Weekend Update’ has been married to Johansson since 2020. They initially met on the set of the NBC variety show. (Johansson, of course, is perhaps best known for her role as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in a cross-section of Marvel films, including 2021’s. black widow.)
“We laugh a lot, we talk to each other and we communicate,” said Johansson, who shares her son Cosmo with Jost. CBS Mornings in June 2023. “I am married to a writer, he is a comedy writer. Sometimes he can become very mental, he is somewhat introverted. I’m an extrovert, so I think the key for us is to always be attentive and ask at the end of the day, ‘How was your day?’”
Johansson also understands that her life can become fodder for SNL jokes
“Now I rarely see (SNL) without having a feeling of… not overwhelming panic, just like a mild, disappointing panic because I feel like at any moment something is going to fall apart,” Johansson previously said during a July 2021 appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “And that is the emotion of SNL and for all audiences, right? Because it is absolutely live.”
Colin Jost and Michael Che’s annual “joke trading” segment on Saturday Night Live may be a tradition, but it’s a tradition that Jost’s wife, Scarlett Johansson, didn’t want to participate in. Johansson, 39, said she “fainted” when she saw his photo during the “Weekend Update” segment where Jost, 42, and Che, 41, write scandalous jokes to each other (…)
She continued at the time: “But when you’re emotionally invested in it and you’re not just entertained, it takes on a little bit of a different life.”
In addition to Dismukes’ subtle joke about Johansson’s Marvel salary on Saturday, the actress has been mentioned in other “Weekend Update” segments. Jost’s co-host, michael chehe often includes a reference in his annual exchange of Christmas jokes in the annual Christmas episodes.
Saturday night live airs on NBC on Saturdays at 11:30 pm ET.
