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 the May 18 episode, he turned to the camera to find a graphic reading, “ChatCPT,” that mentioned his wife, Scarlett Johansson.
Immediately, Jost responded, “Oh, God.” “ChatGPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by Scarlett Johansson’s AI character in ‘Her,’ which I never bothered to watch because without that body, what’s the point of listening?” he joked, reading from the cue card. Jost began to laugh and let his face drop into his hands as Che sat beside him, also cackling with the live audience.
In comments under the “SNL” video on YouTube, fans couldn't get enough of the exchange. “That Scarlett Johansson joke was BRUTAL,” one person wrote. Another commented, “That (Scarlett) Johansson joke made me spit out my soup.
” “You KNOW Scarlett is home watching this, laughing her a-- off,” one person said. “Waiting for the Joke swap is like a kid waiting for christmas each year,” another wrote. This isn't the first time Che pulled a fast one on Jost, leading him into a questionable punchline about his actor wife.
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