Colin Jost is in the dog house with Scarlett Johansson.
Last month, the “Black Widow” star, 40, was on the receiving end of crude jokes read aloud by her husband during his and Michael Che’s “Weekend Update” segment on “Saturday Night Live.”
For the pair’s joke swap skit, Jost, 42, was forced to read Che’s absurd quips about Johansson — including one where Jost said he’s “eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid” — as the actress watched from backstage in shock.
On Monday, Jost appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and revealed how Johansson really felt about the jokes.
“I’m in trouble I think with a lot of people,” he said. “Scarlett was genuinely so shocked.”
Fallon, 50, noted that Johansson’s “reactions were unbelievable” when she watched her own husband tell the dirty jokes at his workplace.
Jost explained that while he was “obviously surprised” that Che forced him to go after his wife, the show warned Johansson ahead of time.
“They were like, ‘Hey, would you be okay if Michael made a little, like, kind of vagina joke at some point?’ She was like, ‘Sure, whatever, I’m open to it,’” Jost recalled.
“I didn’t know where it was going, and then the graphic came up for Arby’s,” the comedian continued. “So Scarlett is backstage like, ‘Oh my god, that’s what it is.’”
Fallon said, “It was a legitimate live moment. You weren’t acting at all.”
“I was not,” Jost insisted. “I can’t act that well.”
On the Dec. 21, 2024 episode of “SNL,” Johansson helplessly watched from backstage at Studio 8H as Jost ripped on her.
Jost had to use “a Black voice” as he said about his wife, “We just had a kid together and y’all ain’t see no pictures of him yet ’cause he Black as hell.” The screen then showed a picture of the couple with a Black child, as Jost burst out laughing.
Johansson sipped a glass a water as she shook her head while watching the show on a monitor.
The couple met in 2017 when Johansson hosted an episode of “SNL.” Jost has worked on the sketch comedy show since 2005.
They got married in 2020 and welcomed their son, Cosmo, in August 2021.
During an appearance on Kelly Clarkson’s talk show in 2021, Johansson admitted that she gets nervous watching her husband on “SNL.”
“I now rarely watch without having a sense of … not overwhelming panic, just like a slight underwhelming panic, because I just feel like at any moment something’s going to fall apart,” she explained.
“And that’s the excitement of ‘SNL’ and for all audiences, right?” Johansson added. “Because it’s absolutely live.”
