SNL Joke Swap Pregame Part 1

With the SNL Season 50 finale happening Saturday night, it could be the final episode for Weekend Update correspondents Colin Jost and Michael Che.  So we looked back at their iconic, nearly decade long bit of the SNL Joke Swap, where the read joke written for each other that they’ve never seen before. It started kind of soft and got way edgier as the years went by.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
I am very excited for Saturday Night. It's the season
finale of Saturday Night Live. Your host is Scarlett Johanson,
your musical guest, Bad Bunny. Scarlett Johansson is the wife
of Colin Jost. Colin Jost began his tenure at SNL
in two thousand and five as a rider. Took over
on Weekend Update in twenty fourteen after Seth Meyers left,

(00:36):
so he's been there for over ten years doing Weekend Update.
They brought in Michael Jay and twenty fourteen as well,
and those guys have been doing it for a long
time now. And here's Saturday Night Live. The story starting
NUT Live is you stay and then you go, and
you let the young ones come come on and have
their time. And there are no announcements yet. There will

(00:56):
probably be some tomorrow afternoon during the day Saturday and
outs or they will keep it quiet, but usually it
leaks out Saturday afternoon. It certainly feels like this will
be Colin Jos's last episode. It might be Michael Chase too.
He's been joking about it forever, but I think that's
just kind of his bit because they have in the

(01:16):
last two episodes. Let Colin jo just appear in regular
Sketch and then his wife is hosting, So it just
kind of feels like this is the end. Yeah. And
one of the great bits that they've done for many
years is something called the joke swap, where they write
jokes for each other that they've never seen before and
they read it straight off the Q cards. A black
guy writing jokes for a white guy and a white
guy writing jokes for a black guys. Often how it

(01:39):
ends up, that's not always the premise, but sometimes it
is that. But I wanted to take you back to
get primed for this just kind of look at where
it began as kind of some harmless fun and how
it's gotten just so insane and way edgier over the
last few years. So here's twenty nineteen example.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
A student in Texas who is nicknamed White Lightning set
a high school record by running one hundred meter dash
in nine point nine eight seconds. Coincidentally, people call me
White Lightning because I also finish an under Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
We're good fun.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
We're having a good time. Yeah. Now, when they came
up with this idea. It was Colin's idea. He actually
went easier and like Michael jav was like, if we're
doing this, we're doing this, And he didn't realize that
Michael j was going to go so hard in the
early going. So Michael j went at him pretty good
early on. Let's go to twenty twenty.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Now, the Palm Beach mansioned once owned by Jeffrey Epstein
will soon be demolished, and I'm honestly shocked that they
would demolish a place where I have so many fun memories.
So good, so good.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I mean, that's not that different than what Kendrick Lamar
did to Drake. It's really not that different. So one
trick that you should know is like they have, you know,
a dress rehearsal, sorry, not live where they do it. It
would be you know, like eight o'clock Central time, only
Central time eight o'clock, and they do it, and I've
learned what they do with the dress rehearsal. It's completely

(03:16):
different in the live show, so they really are reading
it for the first time and don't know where it's
gonna go. Just kind of move ahead to twenty twenty
two New.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
York State now allows movie theaters to serve alcohol, which
is how I'm finally able to enjoy my wife's little
art movie.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
First instance of Michael bringing scarlet into the picture, which
you know had just never been they'd never touched that
territory yet, I'm gonna fast forward ahead to the first one.
So it sort of been the season forty nine finale,
so this would have been May of twenty twenty four. Okay.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Multiple women have posted videos on TikTok planmen that while
walking the streets of New York they were randomly punched
bot men. Well, then damn get the hell out of
my weight, bitch. And speaking of bitches, I want to
call out the biggest bitch of ball, Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Should I say, littlest.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
O?

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Your war was Drake maybe over, but your war with
Michael ch' is just beginning. That was pretty well done.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Man.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
I don't like that one.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
So I want to get your really set up because
what they did at Christmas time last year, the last
one was really good. Both of them got some good
barbs in and I think it'll be a great setup
for what could be happening tomorrow night. And we'll do
that next on ninety seven one, the ECON