Why Colin Jost Took Years to Finally Ask His Wife, Scarlett Johansson, Out

SNL’s ‘Weekend Update’ host Colin Jost married Scarlett Johansson in 2020, but they met all the way back in 2005; so, what took him so long? 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Colin Jo just married as Scarlett Johansson back in twenty
twenty after dating for three years, but he confessed to
The New York Times they first cross paths long before that.
Colin was hired on SNL as a writer back in
five and in his very first year on the job,
Scarlette having a host for the first time, and Colin
even wrote a skit she was featured in, but his
focus was in other places. He says, my first year

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as a writer, I wasn't like I should probably ask
one of the hosts out. My thinking was more like,
am I even going to have a job after this year?
There was chemistry when she returned to host over the years,
but both were always in relationships until she hosted again
in twenty seventeen and both happened to be single. Call
in ads. I asked her out after a host dinner
that we have on Tuesday nights. I was just like,

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do you want to grab a drink? Then we had
drinks until like four in the morning. It was great.
It was not good for my writing, but it was
good for my future marriage. Snel comes back the fiftieth
anniversary season in September.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's direct from Hollywood