Colin Jost doesn’t hesitate to joke about the celebrity status of his wife, Scarlett Johansson. The “Saturday Night Live” star headlined the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, April 27 in Washington, D.C.
During his speech, he poked fun at his marriage to Johansson and their differing levels of popularity while speaking to second gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Doug, as you can see from all the comments about my wife, I also have a habit of being a second gentleman,” Jost told Emhoff. Jost also mentioned Johansson in his speech, taking a moment to thank his family and friends who attended the event to support him.
“I want to thank my wife for putting up with the many jokes and agreeing to meet everyone privately in this room immediately after the ceremony,” he said.
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“This is exceptional honey, thank you. Don’t be shy, come quickly. She hates privacy! “Earlier in his speech, Jost also mentioned the economic impact of Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” in 2023.
“People keep wondering if our lives will be better than four years before or not. Four years ago, we didn’t have any online betting,” Jost joked. “What else do you need?
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“He added: “By the way, that’s probably what’s keeping the economy going: online gaming and Taylor Swift. Without it, we probably would have fallen into recession.”
At the end of his speech, Jost recalled a touching story about his late grandfather, William Kelly, whose middle name was his son Cosmo’s.
Jost shared that his grandfather helped him grow up and that he “wouldn’t be where he is today without him.”
“My grandfather was a firefighter on Staten Island for 40 years. To earn extra money for his family, he worked as a substitute teacher and painted houses,” Jost said.
“And because this is Staten Island, it’s unlike the painted houses in Scorsese’s Irish movies. He’s not a mafia hitman; he paints houses.
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The FBI is here, I don’t want to start anything. The 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner was a star-studded event, including TODAY’s Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie, as well as NBC News’s Lester Holt and Kristen Welker.
Jost and Johansson were photographed together on the red carpet before the event. The “Black Widow” star wore a white strapless dress, while Jost chose a tuxedo jacket with matching pants and a black bow tie.
Other celebrities in attendance included Chris Pine, Molly Ringwald, Gayle King, Rachel Brosnahan, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Rosario Dawson, Billy Porter, Lorne Michaels, and Questlove, as well as red carpet debuts by Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris.
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