For more than a decade, “Saturday Night Live” writers Colin Jost and Michael Che have marked breaks and finales with a joke swap segment. The tradition forces the “Weekend Update” co-anchors to perform jokes the other has written for them live, without the benefit of a pre-show read.
Che and Jost typically take the opportunity to needle and embarrass each other, with Che pushing Jost to read racist bits and Jost forcing Che to admit to perversions. Jost’s wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, is also a frequent target. The pair closed out the 51st season of “SNL” with a game of chicken that nearly pushed Jost to shave his head on national television.
