On a current look of The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon (through Leisure Weekly), Saturday Night time Reside forged member and Weekend Replace co-host Colin Jost revealed he as soon as appeared on a 2002 faculty version of the sport present Weakest Hyperlink, and that he did not accomplish that sizzling on the present.
“I used to be extraordinarily nervous,” Jost advised Fallon. “It was in Los Angeles — I had by no means been to Los Angeles earlier than. I would by no means been on any kind of present, and I used to be there and… I would not say that I did nice on the present.”
Fallon proceeded to point out a clip from Jost’s look on Weakest Hyperlink, wherein the Harvard sweatshirt-wearing twenty-something answered the query, “What season is August in?” Jost mistakenly mentioned Fall (the right reply is Summer season). Jost notes that he even thought concerning the query first earlier than answering, and nonetheless managed to get it fallacious. The clip exhibits Jost burying his face in his fingers in embarrassment.
Although his first few rounds had been dicey, Jost was in a position to keep within the sport till the very finish.
“That sport present had a voiceover each spherical, and each single spherical, it was, ‘Statistically, the weakest hyperlink this spherical was Colin.’ Each single spherical… After which I managed to get in, survive ’til the tip, after which I ran the desk on the finish. However I had been so unhealthy on the sport that there was virtually no cash to win as a result of I had gotten all of it fallacious. So I received like $5,000, which on the time was nice.”
What did Jost do with the $5,000? In true faculty scholar style, he determined to throw a celebration for himself and the opposite contestants on the episode who had been staying on the identical hotel. “I simply used all the cash, and we purchased like, beer and wine, and went in a large 20-person sizzling tub… And that was mainly the cash.”
Jost Usually Will get Embarrassed by Weekend Replace Co-Host Michael Che
Saturday Night time Reside made its return to the airwaves on January 18, 2025, with host Dave Chapelle and musical visitor GloRilla. Jost is at the moment the longest-serving host of Weekend Replace, having made his debut behind the desk in 2014.
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He and co-host Michael Che have a practice on the final present of yearly whereby the anchors learn jokes stay on the air written by the opposite, that they’ve by no means seen earlier than. This often results in extra embarrassment on Jost’s half, provided that Che’s jokes are often racial in nature.
For the final present of 2024, nevertheless, Che ramped up the awkward issue by having Jost learn jokes about his spouse Scarlett Johansson, who was backstage listening in. The fabric was very NSFW, to say the least, and it left each Jost and Johansson laughing in shock.
The longest-running sketch-comedy/satire present on tv, premiering in 1975, Saturday Night time Reside is a weekly collection that options new hosts for every episode, with a core forged of actors and comedians that rotate over time. Episodes characteristic a number of skits which can be generally ad-libbed on the fly, with the hosts partaking in most of them, and in addition present musical visitor performances that cap off every night time.