Colin Jost was forced to take a few swipes at actress wife Scarlett Johansson on Saturday Night Live during the show’s final episode of the year.
Jost, 41, a staff writer for the sketch comedy show, made the jabs during a brutal joke swap segment with Weekend Update co-host Michael Che, 40, on Saturday’s show.
The jokes referenced Johansson’s films and Hollywood career, and her past statements on being able to play any character she wants.
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“New York State now allows movie theatres to sell alcohol… which is how I’m finally able to enjoy my wife’s little art movies,” Jost began.
“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,” he was forced to read in front of a Black civil rights activist.
Another joke he was forced to make was: ”It was announced that Creed singer Scott Stapp will play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming movie. But the good news is, Sammy Davis Jr. will be played by Scarlett Johansson.”
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The jokes referenced an interview Johansson did with As If, in which she said: “You know, as an actor I should be allowed to play any person, or any tree, or any animal because that is my job and the requirements of my job.”
Johansson previously made headlines for her casting in the film Ghost in the Shell, which was set in Japan and based on a Japanese anime storyline. Accusations of “whitewashing” was rife at the time.
It comes after Avengers star Johansson admitted two years ago that she feels ‘panic’ watching her husband on SNL.
“I now rarely watch the show without having just a sense of not overwhelming panic, just like a slight underwhelming panic,” the Black Widow actress told Kelly Clarkson on her daytime talk show.
“Because I just feel like at any moment something’s going to fall apart. And that’s the excitement of SNL for all audiences, right? Is that it’s absolutely live.
“But when you’re emotionally invested in it and not just entertained by it, it takes on a little bit of a different life.”
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The couple got married in 2020 and share one child together, son Cosmo, two.
She is also mother to daughter Rose Dorothy, eight, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.