As per “Saturday Night Live” tradition, comedians Colin Jost and Michael Che did their season finale joke swap — and, naturally, couldn’t hold it together.
During the “Weekend Update” segment, the two give each other jokes to read out loud that they have not seen beforehand, and have historically pushed the envelope. When it was Jost’s turn to read a joke that Che wrote for him in Saturday's episode, he turned to the camera to find a graphic reading, “ChatGPT,” that mentioned his wife, Scarlett Johansson. Immediately, Jost responded, “Oh, God.
This isn’t the first time Che pulled a fast one on Jost, leading him into a questionable punchline about his actor wife. In December 2020, the funny duo did their joke swap to round out the last episode of the year. In that “Weekend Update” segment, Che snuck in another crack at Johansson. “It was announced that Creed singer Scott Stapp will play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming movie,” Jost read off the cue card. “But the good news is Sammy Davis Jr. will be played by Scarlett Johansson.
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