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Colin Jost is really pleased to be Mr. Scarlett Johansson and enjoys all the benefits that arrive with it.
“This year marks the 1st time considering the fact that 2009 that a Marvel film has not kicked off the summer months motion picture year,” Jost, 41, deadpanned all through the Saturday, May well 11, episode of Saturday Night time Reside in its ‘Weekend Update” section. “[It] greater be a one-time point for the reason that a large amount of people today depend on Marvel motion pictures to fork out for the ferries they bought.”
Jost’s cohost, Michael Che, only shook his head in reaction.
Jost has been married to Johansson, 39, due to the fact 2020 following assembly her on the established of SNL. Even though Jost is greatest known as a comedian and head author for the NBC wide range display, Johansson is an acclaimed actress. She has starred as Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2010.
Johansson’s MCU character gained an eponymous prequel in 2021. Given that then, Marvel, which is owned by Disney, rearranged its movie slate to hold off a number of forthcoming tasks. It is not known if Johansson will reprise her purpose in any future Marvel challenge.
Jost, in the meantime, stars on SNL weekly. In addition, he and former cast member Pete Davidson are fixing up a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat, which they bought in 2022, to change it into an entertainment venue. (Both Jost and Davidson, 30, hail from Staten Island, a borough of New York Metropolis.)
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost. Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic
“Is it even worse that I was truly stone-chilly sober when we purchased the ferry?” Jost joked via Instagram in June 2023. “We’re enthusiastic to prove the non-believers wrong. You are heading to be BEGGING to get on this ferry in two yrs. Mark my words and phrases.”
Later that month, Davidson made available supporters a trace at the pair’s building programs.
“We just bought all the programs crafted, and we experienced them do one of those laptop-created, ‘Show you what it could be’ variety issues, and now we’re out to a number of folks,” Davidson explained all through an look on the “Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers” podcast. “And it appears to be like it is all heading perfectly, but it is unquestionably like five years absent.”
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson. John Lamparski/WireImage
He continued, “There’ll be a cafe, there’ll be a concert venue, there’ll be a film theater [and a couple of hotel rooms]. … We jokingly named it the Titanic 2 on the LLC when we experienced to purchase it. I can not just take whole credit score for that.”
According to Davidson, they acquired the “biggest ferry” in the retired fleet. “I’m just happy it is not turned to scrap or whatever,” the Bupkis alum extra at the time. “It’s in fact funny that this will be a lifelong difficulty for me and Colin.”
Saturday Night time Are living airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
