“Yeah, you’re applauding now,” Colin Jost stated sarcastically to SNL 50’s cheering viewers, and thus started the start of Jost’s and his Weekend Replace co-anchor Michael Che’s annual joke swap.
The joke swap is a yearly custom on the present the place Jost and Che write utterly unhinged and brutal jokes for each other to learn reside on air (with out having seen the jokes prior).
“We’re making one another learn jokes reside on the air that the opposite individual has by no means seen earlier than,” Che defined as they kicked off the 2024 iteration.
This 12 months, they had been as brutal as ever. As one commenter on YouTube put it, “That is simply probably the most brutal one they’ve performed but, went straight for the throat on each single joke.”
2024’s version even featured a Scarlett Johansson digital camera that reduce to the actor’s reside reactions to her husband’s Che-written jokes, one which even elicited an audible “OH MY GOD! WHY?” from the actor.
This marked the 12 months’s remaining episode for SNL, with new ones returning in 2025. Within the meantime, you possibly can watch 2024’s joke swap right here: