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It’s not an SNL closer unless there’s a Joke Swap. The time-honored Weekend Update contented sees co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che trading jabs they wrote for each other. In no-holds-barred bits from nan past, everything — and everyone — is game, including Jost’s wife, two-time Oscar-nominated character Scarlett Johansson, and nan late-nighter’s trusty steward himself, Lorne Michaels.
This clip around, nan casualty was not a person, truthful overmuch arsenic a prized possession: Jost’s “award-winning” hair. After trading provocative jokes (see nan highlights below), Che goaded Jost into reference retired a peculiarly violative 1 — “Ye tin make atrocious music, but still beryllium correct astir Hitler.”
To dress up for nan risqué joke, Jost past publication from nan cue paper that he would beryllium “sacrificing” his signature coif. “That’s right: I’m shaving it off,” he promised. “Send successful nan barber!”
When a barber materialized from disconnected surface pinch clippers and achromatic cape, Jost continued: “Jerome, make maine unpretty!”
It was Che that held him back, arsenic Jerome sewage person to Jost’s head.
“You was really gonna do it?” Che questioned. “You are nan top comedian of each time.”
“I was truthful scared,” Jost admitted.
The switch — which mostly falls on nan lines of making Jost look racist and Che look for illustration a intersexual predator — was disconnected to an auspicious commencement erstwhile Jost was forced to remark connected Michael B. Jordan’s Oscar win, saying that quality betwixt a Black vampire and achromatic vampire is that nan erstwhile “sucks barren … nan use state.”
Continuing on, Jost’s flailing ferry erstwhile again took halfway shape arsenic he publication out: “I person a beautiful ferry to springiness immoderate Black personification a one-way travel to nan motherland.”
Meanwhile, Che was forced to remark connected nan controversies of nan Michael biopic: “Michael Jackson did thing wrong. He was correct to molest each those kids,” he publication out. “When I was 10 years old, Michael Jackson molested maine and … gave maine a fetish for middle-aged achromatic women.” As an aside, Che clarified: “That is not why I person that.”
