When it comes to his Saturday Night Live costars, Colin Jost won’t ever be protected from jokes about his film star spouse.
Mikey Day took particular care to show this in a cut-for-time Weekend Update section that noticed him pair up with Chloe Fineman as A Guy and His Girlfriend Who’s Always Cold. The duo be part of Jost and Michael Che on the desk to focus on courting app fatigue however can barely get a phrase out as Fineman cannot cease shivering, prompting Day to begin eradicating layers from his physique, handing them over to heat her up.
What does any of which have to do with Scarlett Johansson, you ask? Nothing. Nothing in any respect— which is what makes it so hilarious when Day shocks Jost with an sudden reveal.
After giving Fineman his jacket and hoodie, Day finally ends up backed into a nook as she continues shivering.
“This is what people on the Titanic must’ve felt like in the water” she comically declares, whereas visibly shivering.
“Are you still cold?! Do you want my shirt too?,” asks an exasperated Day. “Fine.”
He then rips open his shirt to reveal Johansson’s face, tattooed onto his chest. “Well, this is awkward,” he says, wanting to Jost. “I have a tattoo of your wife and I’m sorry.”
Chloe Fineman, Mikey Day, and Colin Jost on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Credit: NBC
Clearly shocked by the reveal, Jost collapsed on the desk laughing.
The annoyed Day continued, “I’m a fan! I got it before you were married! I didn’t know I’d be taking my shirt off, baby!”
He then handed over the shirt to Fineman, who was nonetheless shaking from the “cold.”
“How are you still shivering?!” he yelled. “I can’t do it anymore, I’m going crazy! I love you, but you’re never not cold. Any room we sleep in, any season, any region, any climate! I’m so hot at night!”
With her enamel chattering, Fineman stated, “Literally feel my hands, they’re so cold.”
This appeared to be Day’s final straw. “I can’t do this, we have to break up,” he declared, then turned to Jost, whining, “But she’s so pretty, I’ll never do better than her!”
In the tip, he could not let her go and ended up handing over his pants as properly. After the “Weekend Update” hosts signed off, ending the sketch, a laughing Jost appeared to ask Day concerning the tattoo, prompting laughter from them each as Fineman applauded the shock joke.
Jost is, in fact, no stranger to being the butt of a ScarJo joke. Even when he is not putting his marriage at risk by cold-reading raunchy jokes penned by Che — a “Weekend Update” custom that even Johansson is genuinely horrified by — SNL all the time finds a approach to quip about their marriage.
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson in 2025
Credit: NBC/Noam Galai/NBC through Getty
Just final month, Che stunned his co-anchor with an unexpected joke about his marriage whereas delivering a information merchandise concerning the winners of the U.Okay.’s 2026 Wife Carrying Race.
“The winners of the annual Wife Carrying contest in England was a couple from Finland,” Che stated in the course of the section, “while once again, the winner of the Husband Carrying contest was Scarlett Johansson.”
As he named Jost’s spouse, Che broke and began laughing. He then seemed over at his costar, who feigned outrage earlier than joking, “We both put food on the table… They’re different kinds of food.”
A number of weeks prior, Jost learn a information merchandise about Johansson being dethroned because the highest-grossing actress of all time.
“Zoe Saldaña—who stars in the brand new Avatar film—has surpassed Scarlett Johansson to develop into the highest-grossing actress of all time,” Jost learn from his cue playing cards. As he spoke, a bar graph of each actresses’ earnings appeared onscreen.
He continued, “Okay, well let’s see what happens if you include the box office from Scarlett’s husband’s movies.”
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Accompanied by a comical sound impact, Johansson’s earnings then fell from $15.4 billion to $15.1 billion. The change shocked Jost, who burst out laughing as he seemed to the crew in disbelief: “It went down?!”
Watch Jost react to SNL‘s newest ScarJo gag in the sketch above.
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