Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. Paul Morigi/Getty Photos
Colin Jost may need been the star of the 2024 White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation Dinner, however he’s at the beginning Scarlett Johansson’s husband.
Jost, 41, hosted the annual gala on Saturday, April 27, with a number of monologue references to Johansson, 39.
“Doug [Emhoff], as you may inform by all of the feedback about my spouse, I’m additionally used to being the Second Gentleman,” Jost joked, referring to the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris, 59, is the primary feminine VP of the USA, together with her partner being known as “Second Gentleman.” (The spouse of a male VP has beforehand been referred to as “Second Woman,” following the First Woman because the president’s vital different.)
Jokes apart, Jost is aware of he’s fortunate to be married to Johansson.
“I wish to thank my spouse for enduring plenty of jokes,” the Saturday Evening Dwell comic continued throughout his speech. “And agreeing to individually meet each individual on this room after the ceremony.”
President Joe Biden and Colin Jost. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Photos
Jost and Johansson additionally walked the pink carpet collectively on the WHCD, with the Black Widow actress beautiful in a white Armani Privé robe. Jost, for his half, opted for a black tux.
Jost has been married to Johansson since 2020. Their union has steadily been parodied and referenced on SNL.
“New York state now permits film theaters to serve alcohol, which is how I’m lastly in a position to get pleasure from my spouse’s little artwork motion pictures,” Jost quipped throughout a December 2023 episode of SNL’s “Weekend Replace,” studying Michael Che’s joke about her 2012 film The Avengers. “I’m kidding, honey. I like all your motion pictures. And For those who requested me, you’re an excellent higher Black Widow than Coretta Scott King.”
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The SNL point out was a part of Jost and Che’s annual vacation “joke swap,” the place they write quips for each other to learn for the primary time throughout the stay broadcast. The phase is commonly exhausting for Johansson to observe on TV.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. DREW ANGERER/AFP through Getty Photos
“I now hardly ever watch [SNL] with out having a way of … not overwhelming panic, similar to a slight underwhelming panic as a result of I simply really feel like at any second one thing’s going to collapse,” Johansson mentioned throughout a July 2021 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present. “And that’s the joy of SNL and for all audiences, proper? As a result of it’s completely stay.”
She continued on the time, “However if you’re emotionally invested in it and never simply entertained by it, it takes on somewhat little bit of a special life.”
Jost and Johansson share son Cosmo, who was born in 2021. The actress can also be mom to daughter Rose, whom she coparents with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
