Scarlett Johansson is terrified by the considered kissing Colin Jost.
Johansson, 40, has some enjoyable at her husband’s expense in a new promo for the Saturday Evening Reside finale, which airs on Saturday, Might 17 on NBC. Johansson is the present’s host and Dangerous Bunny is the musical visitor.
Within the promo, Johansson is seen operating by means of the SNL studio and frantically attempting to flee an unseen monster when she encounters a chill Jost, 42, who says, “Hey babe, I’ve a sketch thought for you. Perhaps it’s one the place we, I don’t know, lastly kiss.”
Johansson then turns to the digicam and screams, “Noooooooooo!”
Then, Jost’s SNL castmate Sarah Sherman goals a dart at his neck and he goes down, saying, “Ow!”
“Thanks, Sarah,” Johannson says, to which Sherman responds, “Anytime, Scarlett!”
“That was only a tranquilizer, proper?” Johannson asks.
“Oh, I don’t know,” Sherman replies, referencing Jost’s Weekend Replace cohost, Michael Che. “Che simply handed this to me and mentioned, ‘Deal with Jost.’”
Johanson hinted in an interview with Vainness Honest that she may quickly take her revenge on Che, 41, for utilizing her as comedian fodder on Weekend Replace. He and Jost have a recurring bit the place they provide one another crude jokes to learn off a teleprompter with out realizing the fabric upfront.
Just lately, SNL’s digicam captured Johansson’s shocked response when Jost learn one in all Che’s most button-pushing punchlines to this point.
“Costco has eliminated the roast beef sandwich from its menu,” Jost mentioned on the air in December. “However I ain’t trippin. I’ve been consuming roast beef each evening since my spouse had the child.”
As Johansson recalled to Vainness Honest, “I had all these cameras on me. I didn’t count on the setup to be like that. I used to be like, ‘Wow, you actually are seventh-, eighth-grade boys.’”
She added, “I really feel prefer it’s virtually my duty to provide you with some approach to burn Michael again. Retaliation, I’d say, must be anticipated. Others on the present may help this want. Know what I imply?”
Jost and Johansson married in October 2020 and share a son, Cosmo, 3. (Johansson can be the mother of daughter Rose, 10, whom she shares with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.)
Jost just lately admitted that his spouse was “genuinely so shocked” by the risqué joke throughout his “joke swap” with Che over the vacations.
“I used to be, clearly, stunned by all the pieces, however they gave her a heads-up,” Jost mentioned throughout a January 20 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “They have been like, ‘Hey, would you be OK if Michael made just a little, like, type of vagina joke in some unspecified time in the future?’”
Johansson was “open to it,” based on her husband. Nonetheless, the joke was removed from what both of them anticipated.
“I didn’t know the place it was going after which the graphic got here up for Arby’s,” Jost recalled. “Scarlett is backstage, like, ‘Oh, my God, that’s what it’s?’”