Colin Jost had the final chuckle after his Saturday Evening Stay costar Michael Che insinuated that Scarlett Johansson wears the pants within the couple’s marriage.
“The winners of the annual wife-carrying contest in England was a pair from Finland,” Che, 42, arrange a “Weekend Replace” joke in the course of the Saturday, March 14, episode of SNL. “Whereas, as soon as once more, the winner of the husband-carrying contest was Scarlett.”
Jost, who has been married to 41-year-old Johansson since 2020, regarded unamused by his coanchor’s diss.
“We each put meals on the desk,” Jost, 43, shot again. “They’re completely different sorts of meals!”
The comic and Johansson first crossed paths when the acclaimed actress hosted an episode of SNL. They began courting in 2017tying the knot three years later.
All through Jost and Johansson’s marriage, their romance has constantly develop into fodder for numerous SNL punchlines and roasts.
“I now not often watch (SNL) with out having a way of … not overwhelming panic, similar to a slight underwhelming panic as a result of I simply really feel like at any second one thing’s going to collapse,” Johansson stated on The Kelly Clarkson Present in July 2021. “And that’s the joy of SNL and for all audiences, proper? As a result of it’s completely reside.”
She continued on the time, “Whenever you’re emotionally invested in it and never simply entertained by it, it takes on just a little little bit of a unique life.”
Regardless of her makes an attempt to keep away from the variability sequence, Johansson ended up watching the 2024 vacation present reside after showing elsewhere on the printed. The Eleanor the Nice director, nonetheless, wasn’t happy to listen to Jost learn a joke about her vagina throughout his annual “joke swap” with Che.
“Costco has eliminated the roast beef sandwich from its menu,” Jost learn aloud on the December 2024 broadcast. “I’ve been consuming roast beef each night time since my spouse had the child.”
Johansson, who gave delivery to her and Jost’s son Cosmo in 2021, was visibly stunned by the shock line. (Johansson can be the mom of daughter Rose from a earlier relationship.)
“I used to be, clearly, stunned by every thing, however they gave her a heads-up,” Jost stated on a January 2025 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. “They have been like, ‘Hey, would you be OK if Michael made just a little, like, form of vagina joke in some unspecified time in the future?’”
Per Jost, his spouse was “open to” being name-dropped on the present with out figuring out the total extent of the joke.
“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?’”
Months later, Che issued a public apology to Johansson for writing the vulgar line within the first place.
Saturday Evening Stay airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.

