Colin Jost Forced to Roast His Wife, Scarlett Johansson, on ‘SNL’

Colin Jost was strong-armed into making his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, the butt of a joke he was compelled to ship on ‘SNL’ … and he has his good pal Michael Che to thank for it.

Final evening was the sketch comedy sequence’ final present of the yr, and each Christmas — the 2 “Weekend Update” hosts have a convention of writing jokes for each other that the opposite hasn’t seen … however has to learn in entrance of the viewers as if it is coming straight from them.

It is one of many higher bits on the present nowadays, and 2023’s iteration did not disappoint — particularly for one crack Che made Colin learn … on the expense of his A-lister partner.

The premise was highlighting a brand new NY legislation that now permits film theaters to serve booze — which Colin then stated would function the one method he can get by means of ScarJo’s “little art movies” … with a flash to an OTS graphic of her in “Black Widow.”

It was a fairly sick burn (from Che) and the viewers positively appeared to note … cackling and dropping the collective “OOOOOHHHHHHH” to indicate how wild it was that her hubby was saying that.

After all, it is all in good enjoyable … and Colin rolled with it, together with studying the tail finish of Che’s edgy joke for him — by which he stated, “I’m kidding, honey. I love all of your movies. And if you ask me, you’re an even better Black widow than Coretta Scott King.”

The funniest half about all of Colin’s jokes — which have been written to be fairly racist in opposition to Black individuals — is that Che introduced out a (faux) civil rights activist to take a seat subsequent to him whereas he delivered all of those … and Che ribbed him about it each time.