‘Saturday Night Live’ celebrates 50 years of comedy
Live from New York, it’s the 50th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live.”
Colin Jost and Michael Che’s joke swap war continues to escalate.
During the Season 50 finale of “Saturday Night Live,” the “Weekend Update” hosts partook in their biannual segment where they make each other read jokes that the other person has supposedly not seen before.
In December, Jost was forced to read an offensive joke about his wife, Scarlett Johansson, and her private parts. This time, the “Black Widow” actress joined the segment. Che, reading remarks written by Jost, declared he wanted to “apologize to someone I hurt” and brought out Johansson, the episode’s host, to sit next to him. He noted that the “last time we did joke swap, I made Colin do some tasteless jokes” about her.
“The fact is, I was just lashing out because I’m jealous,” Che read. “I’ve never even seen a human vagina. And notice I said human, because I once spent the summer on a farm.”
Che went on to tell Jost, “I owe you everything. When Colin discovered me, I was selling crack outside the Bronx Zoo, and now look at me: selling crack outside the American Girl Doll store. I’ve told thousands of jokes on ‘Update’ and gotten dozens of laughs, but I’ve never said the three most important words of all: I love you.”
During Jost’s portion of the joke swap bit, Che forced his co-host to read a message urging their boss, “SNL” creator and producer Lorne Michaels, to retire and let him run the show. Jost was also forced to read several racist jokes, including one insulting Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show performance.
Johansson was also in the building during the previous joke swap in 2024. After Jost read the crude joke about her that Che had given him, a camera cut to the actress looking shocked and saying, “Oh, my God!” Jost noted she looked “so genuinely worried” during the segment.
Johansson later said on the “Today” show that she was stunned and joked that Che seems to have a “vendetta” against her and Jost, playfully asking, “Michael, why? What did I do to you, Michael?”
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