Colin Jost Says His Mom Was ‘Slightly Thrown By’ He And Scarlett Johansson Naming Their Baby Cosmo

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It took a while for Colin Jost’s mom to accept the name he gave his new son. On Thursday, the star of Global’s “Saturday Night Live” appeared on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and talked about his mom’s reaction to the name he and wife Scarlett Johansson chose for their son.

RELATED: Scarlett Johansson And Colin Jost Welcome A Baby Boy: ‘We Love Him Very Much’ Explaining that his family has always been “very supportive,” Jost said that his mom was confused upon hearing that his son’s name was Cosmo. “My mom, I would say, was slightly thrown by it and didn’t quite understand it.

I don’t know if she thought it was kind of like a hippie thing,” he said. Jost said that even well after he and Johansson had finalized the name at the hospital, his