How Scarlett Johansson really felt about Colin Jost’s ‘vulgar’ joke about her anatomy on ‘SNL’

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Scarlett Johansson’s reaction was no laughing matter. The actress, 40, got candid on the joke her husband Colin Jost told during the annual “Saturday Night Live” joke swap in December 2024.“It was so vulgar,” Johansson told InStyle in an interview published Tuesday. “I just can’t believe that they went there.

I was like — it was so gross. It was really gross.”She added with a laugh, “And, like, old-school gross.”During the late-night show’s annual, end-of-year joke swap between Jost, 42, and his Weekend Update co-anchor, Michael Che, 41, the comedians read jokes written by one another.As for the joke in question, Jost read: “Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu.

But I ain’t trippin’. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.”A camera then cut to Johansson backstage with a shocked look on her face.“My experience of it was so funny.” the star confessed, noting that the producers had given her notice before hand that Che wrote a “vagina joke.” But, Johansson didn’t think she’d be the butt of the joke. “I was like, ‘I mean, it’s a vagina joke, how bad could it be?’ And then as soon as the Costco photo came up, I was like ‘No!

No, Michael!'”Johansson, who tied the knot with Jost in 2020, also addressed the camera crew being able to quickly show her stunned reaction.“The fact that it took on a full ‘To Catch a Predator’-style reveal or whatever,” she joked, “that was so intense.