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A Saturday Night Live the season is not complete without a joke – however subtle – dedicated to Colin Jost‘ wife, actress Scarlett Johansson.
Ar the Saturday, December 14, episodecast member Andrew Dismukes offered a quick joke about Johansson, 40, being the breadwinner in her and Jost’s marriage.
Dismukes, 29, portrayed a “bald man” during the “Weekend Update” segment, sharing his views on a new UK court ruling banning harassment of men who suffer from hair loss. At one point, Dismukes pretended to use a towel to dry his bare head.
“You think this is funny, Colin? I had to carry a bit of shame in case my head got wet,” Dismukes quipped. “(I) dare you to laugh. Nice to see your ass in court.”
He added, “My hairless little hands on some of your wife’s Marvel money!”
Jost, 42, quickly cut off Dismukes to end the segment, while bursting into laughter.
Jost, co-anchor SNL‘s “Weekend Update,” has been married Johansson since 2020. They initially met on the set of the NBC variety show. (Johansson is, of course, perhaps best known for her role as Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff in a cross-section of Marvel films, including the 2021 films. Black Widow.)
“We laugh a lot and we communicate with each other and check in,” said Johansson, who shares son Cosmo with Jost. forward CBC mornings in June 2023. “I’m married to a writer, he’s a comedy writer. He can get really into his head sometimes, he’s an introvert. I’m outgoing, and so I think the key for us is always checking in, just asking at the end of the day, ‘How was your day?'”
Johansson also understands that their life it can become fodder for SNL jokes.
“I rarely watch now (SNL) not having a sense of … not going into an overwhelming panic, just like a little overwhelming panic because I feel like something is going to fall apart at any moment,” Johansson previously said during an appearance in July 2021 on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “And that’s excitement SNL and for all audiences, right? Because he’s totally alive.”
Colin Jost and Michael Che’s annual “joke exchange” segment on Saturday Night Live may be a tradition, but Jost’s wife, Scarlett Johansson, wanted no part of it. Johansson, 39, said she “freaked out” when she saw her photo during the “Weekend Update” segment where Jost, 42, and Che, 41, write outrageous jokes for each other (…)
He continued at the time: “But when you’re emotionally invested in it and not just entertained by it, it takes on a bit of a different life.”
In addition to Dismukes’ subtle joke about Johansson’s Marvel salary on Saturday, the actress has been famously named in other “Weekend Update” segments. co-host Jost, Michael Cheoften address sneaking into their annual holiday joke exchange on annual Christmas episodes.
Saturday Night Live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 pm ET.
