Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. Paul Morigi/Getty Photographs
Colin Jost may have been the star of the 2024 White Dwelling Correspondents’ Affiliation Meal, but he’s to start with and foremost Scarlett Johansson’s husband.
Jost, 41, hosted the yearly gala on Saturday, April 27, with various monologue references to Johansson, 39.
“Doug [Emhoff], as you can convey to by all the remarks about my spouse, I’m also employed to remaining the Second Gentleman,” Jost joked, referring to the spouse of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris, 59, is the initially woman VP of the United States, with her partner remaining referred to as “Second Gentleman.” (The wife of a male VP has beforehand been identified as “Second Lady,” next the To start with Woman as the president’s significant other.)
Jokes aside, Jost appreciates he’s lucky to be married to Johansson.
“I want to thank my wife for enduring loads of jokes,” the Saturday Night time Stay comic ongoing for the duration of his speech. “And agreeing to individually satisfy every single man or woman in this area right after the ceremony.”
President Joe Biden and Colin Jost. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Pictures
Jost and Johansson also walked the red carpet with each other at the WHCD, with the Black Widow actress stunning in a white Armani Privé gown. Jost, for his element, opted for a black tux.
Jost has been married to Johansson given that 2020. Their union has regularly been parodied and referenced on SNL.
“New York point out now enables film theaters to provide alcohol, which is how I’m ultimately equipped to take pleasure in my wife’s tiny art films,” Jost quipped all through a December 2023 episode of SNL’s “Weekend Update,” looking at Michael Che’s joke about her 2012 movie The Avengers. “I’m kidding, honey. I appreciate all of your flicks. And If you asked me, you are an even far better Black Widow than Coretta Scott King.”
The SNL mention was section of Jost and Che’s yearly getaway “joke swap,” the place they create quips for a single one more to read for the to start with time all through the stay broadcast. The section is frequently really hard for Johansson to look at on Tv set.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. DREW ANGERER/AFP by means of Getty Pictures
“I now rarely view [SNL] with no possessing a sense of … not mind-boggling worry, just like a slight underwhelming worry simply because I just feel like at any second something’s heading to fall apart,” Johansson mentioned throughout a July 2021 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Demonstrate. “And which is the pleasure of SNL and for all audiences, suitable? Simply because it’s absolutely live.”
She continued at the time, “But when you are emotionally invested in it and not just entertained by it, it takes on a very little bit of a unique existence.”
Jost and Johansson share son Cosmo, who was born in 2021. The actress is also mother to daughter Rose, whom she coparents with ex-spouse Romain Dauriac.
