Scarlett Johansson Finally Addresses *That* 'SNL' Vagina Joke

Scarlett Johansson is married to Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost, who she met during an appearance on the show. She herself is a member of the prestigious Five-Timers Club, meaning she’s hosted SNL at least that many times. But even she was shocked by a joke made at her expense during a Weekend Update segment starring her husband and fellow cast member Michael Che.

Jost and Che co-anchor Weekend Update, and during SNL’s annual end of the year joke swap—where the two men write each other’s jokes—Che had Jost read this: “Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu. But I ain’t trippin’. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.” (Johannson and Jost share 3-year-old Cosmo, and she has 10-year-old Rose with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.)

As he read the joke (and the audience gasped), the SNL cameras cut to Johannson backstage, jaw-dropped.

“It was so vulgar,” Johansson revealed to InStyle for the first time in her cover story that was released on March 11. “I just can't believe that they went there. I was like—it was so gross. It was really gross.” Laughing, she added, “And, like, old-school gross.”

The pre-planned idea for cameras to catch her reaction in real time “took on a full To Catch a Predator-style reveal or whatever,” she continued, laughing. “That was so intense. All of a sudden, it was like a whole bunch of people holding up lights, and a guy with a video camera.”

She added, “They were waiting for me to react. I felt insane. I was like, ‘I think I'm going to faint.’”

Johansson had been given a heads up by Saturday Night Live producers that Che had written a “vagina joke,” but she didn’t think the vagina in question would be—hers. She is a good sport, though: “My experience of it was so funny,” she said. “I was like, ‘I mean, it's a vagina joke, how bad could it be?’ And then as soon as the Costco photo came up, I was like ‘No! No, Michael!’”

Though Johansson told InStyle she’d “never want my own TV show,” she also said of Saturday Night Live that “The live element of it is really fun. Spontaneous and a little dangerous, too.”

Johansson also opens up about motherhood, marriage, and co-hosting the Today show in our Spring Fashion and Beauty issue, here.

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