“It’s a weird feeling when you’re in the medical tent way more than any of the athletes,” Colin Jost told NBC Olympics host Maria Taylor last week.
The Weekend Update anchor had taken up the unique mantle of “Olympics Surfing Correspondent” for NBC’s coverage of the competition, which is taking place in Tahiti.
Part of Jost’s reporting included self-deprecating descriptions of his own surfing skills and his litany of related ailments.
First he cut his foot on the reef, then he got a staph infection, and then he got an ear infection. Thus, the banter with Taylor.
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