It is essentially the most surprising time of the yr for “Saturday Night time Reside.”

In the course of the sketch present’s closing episode of 2024, “Weekend Replace” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che as soon as once more partook of their biannual “joke swap,” during which they make one another learn jokes that the opposite particular person has supposedly by no means seen earlier than. The jokes are sometimes horribly offensive issues that the opposite particular person would not wish to say on tv.

However this time, there was a twist: Jost’s spouse, Scarlett Johansson, was within the constructing after showing in a sketch in regards to the present’s five-time hosts. A digital camera was set as much as seize her reactions, and Jost famous that she seemed “so genuinely fearful.”

First off, Jost was given a joke about leaving his spouse after she turned 40 final month.

“I wish to dedicate this subsequent joke to my boo, Scarlett Johansson,” he learn. “Hey, boo. Y’all know Scarlett simply celebrated her fortieth birthday, which suggests I am about to stand up out of there!”

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Jost added, “Nah, nah, I am simply enjoying. We simply had a child collectively, and y’all ain’t seen no footage of him but as a result of he is Black as hell.”

The “Black Widow” star sipped a drink whereas watching. A photoshopped image of her and Jost with a Black youngster was proven because the comic obtained to his punchline, which made Johansson curse and shake her head.

However Che wasn’t executed and shortly after gave his co-anchor a surprising joke involving his spouse and a Costco sandwich, too lewd to repeat right here.

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Johansson was visibly shocked after the bit and may very well be seen blurting out, “Oh, my God!”

Jost obtained his revenge with the jokes he compelled Che to learn, together with one about Jay-Z being accused of raping a 13-year-old woman with Sean “Diddy” Combs. Jay-Z has strongly denied the allegations and accused the lawyer who filed the grievance in opposition to him of a “blackmail try.”

“Jay-Z is harmless,” Che learn. “He wasn’t even at these events, and I do know as a result of I used to be! And Diddy, when you’re listening, we’re dangerous boys for all times.”

Che additionally needed to learn a joke about “Moana 2” being a box-office hit, “as a result of like me and my good pal Jeffrey Epstein used to say, there’s nothing like an island journey with a teenage woman.”

In the course of the information portion of “Weekend Replace,” Jost was bowled over when the viewers cheered for Luigi Mangione, the person charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

“Yeah, undoubtedly woo,” he informed the group sarcastically. “You are wooing for justice, proper?”

Tom Hanks, Emma Stone, John Mulaney and extra welcome Martin Quick into ‘SNL’ five-timers membership

For the episode’s chilly open, “SNL” unwrapped a present for followers: some of the star-studded sketches ever.

Saturday’s episode started with a cavalcade of celebrities welcoming host Martin Quick into the five-timers membership, the group of stars who’ve hosted the present that many occasions.

Tom Hanks opened up the sketch by speaking to the viewers about how he created the “unique” membership as an “ingeniously lazy option to keep away from writing a monologue.” He was joined by Paul Rudd, who taught Quick the five-timers membership secret handshake, and Tina Fey, who mentioned the “Solely Murders within the Constructing” actor is “one of many least uncommon issues in Hollywood: a loud man.”

Alec Baldwin, a 17-time host, entered and mentioned he performs Republicans on the present due to his “robust daddy vibes.” Quickly after got here Johansson, who shut the door in Jost’s face; Kristen Wiig, who wore a bathrobe and joked she is unquestionably “not residing right here,” and Emma Stone and Melissa McCarthy, the latter of whom busted out some bodily comedy by falling by way of a wall.

John Mulaney then stopped by, saying the sitcom he and Quick starred in collectively, “Mulaney,” could not air now as a result of “it wasn’t good and nobody preferred it!” There was one final cameo when Jimmy Fallon got here in, asserting he quickly needed to go “host one other sport present and chuckle at my very own jokes.”

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Whereas they have been all within the constructing, most of the stars who appeared within the cameo-filled chilly open caught round for roles in sketches.

Throughout a sketch about two males who get into an argument over a parking spot on Christmas Eve, McCarthy popped up as an aggressive lady who spits her drink on a automobile window.

In one other sketch the place the totally different sorts of individuals in an airport take part in a parade, Wiig performed a girl who by accident sat down on a motorized suitcase, whereas Rudd performed himself being denied entry right into a lounge space. McCarthy additionally appeared as a gate agent having bother saying individuals’s names, whereas Hanks performed Sully Sullenberger, the captain who famously landed a aircraft on the Hudson River after a hen strike. Hanks beforehand starred as Sullenberger within the film “Sully.”

Plus, Rudd had a foremost position in a “Sábado Gigante” sketch as a confused man who’s pulled out of the viewers and has no thought how the Spanish-language present works. Within the sketch, Dana Carvey confirmed up as soon as once more, providing Rudd’s character a very unhelpful trace.

“SNL” will return in 2025, and the present’s fiftieth anniversary particular is ready to air on Feb. 16.