SNL gifted followers with one other joke swap final night time, although I wouldn’t precisely say it was a shock. Hardcore followers had been speculating we’d get one other spherical of the favored “Weekend Replace” sequence through which hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost write jokes the opposite should learn stay with none warning as a result of the situations simply appeared too excellent. Not solely was final night time’s episode the season finale, which has featured joke swaps previously, but additionally, Jost’s actual life spouse Scarlett Johansson was the episode’s host and she or he’d even made a remark about “retaliation” just a few days in the past. You simply can’t move up a possibility like that, particularly when there’s an opportunity it could possibly be the ultimate Weekend Replace for the 2.
Fortunately, the joke swap didn’t disappoint. It, in fact, included all the racial humor and jokes about masturbating throughout Minecraft’s hen jockey scene that you just’d count on, however extra notably, it additionally included Jost forcing Che to deliver out Johansson and apologize to her in individual.
She has been the topic of quite a few Weekend Replace joke swap insults previously, as each Che and the viewers have cherished to see Jost squirm as he’s been pressured to say really horrible issues about his companion. One time she was even pressured to face there whereas they learn jokes about her. Nicely, she lastly bought the apology she deserved, however sadly for Jost, that wasn’t the final phrase, you’ll be able to watch the joke swap in full beneath…
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As you’ll be able to see, the joke swap each begins and ends with Jost being pressured to learn a remark about how a lot he needs to take over the present. He’s continuously been rumored as a attainable successor to creator Lorne Michaels. The longtime showrunner hasn’t made any plans to retire.
In actual fact, his biographer just lately instructed us she thinks it’s extra doubtless he reduces his schedule than leaves, however he’s additionally 80 and might’t run the present endlessly. As a former headwriter and longtime “Weekend Replace” host, Jost looks as if a perfect subsequent in line, although it’s unclear if he’ll be round lengthy sufficient to take action.
That’s as a result of, along with rumors about him taking on the present, there’s additionally been plenty of rumors about him leaving the present. He’s been engaged on a bunch of non-SNL tasks (apart from the ferry boat), and plenty of followers guessed his spouse internet hosting the ultimate episode of the season could possibly be proof that it was going to be his final episode. It was clear he and Che had been going to remain on by the 2024 Presidential Election, however with that over, they now should make the choice of whether or not they need to keep on, given they already maintain the document for longest Weekend Replace tenures.
We do not know what’s going to occur, however for now, all we are able to do is respect the legacies they’ve constructed. They’re among the many finest Weekend Replace internet hosting duos in historical past as a result of they’re each sharp joke writers, have unimaginable chemistry collectively and are at all times keen to go there for the snort. The right illustration of how far they’re keen to go has at all times been the joke swaps. They’re most individuals’s favourite recurring bits they do, and if this was really the ultimate one, we’ve been so fortunate to have gotten as many as we’ve got.
No bulletins have been made in regards to the solid and who is perhaps staying and who is perhaps going, nonetheless. The present will head into the off season with plenty of inquiries to be answered, however given SNL has quietly put collectively a really proficient and deep solid, the present can be nice no matter what occurs and irrespective of who’s in cost.