Colin Jost and Michael Che left the audience stunned during the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” with their semi-annual joke swap.
In keeping with tradition, the “Weekend Update” co-anchors wrote jokes for each other to read live on-air without prior review.
Jost began with a joke penned by Che: “Mattel has introduced a new Barbie that has autism. Ugh, now it’s going to feel wrong when I have sex with it.”
Che followed with a joke by Jost: “A new study finds that the average length of an erect penis in the country is 6.34 inches. Oh, boy. That means I’m only 6 inches below average.”
Jost continued with, “Michael B. Jordan won best actor for his role in the vampire movie ‘Sinners.’ A black vampire is just like a white vampire, except the only thing it sucks dry is the welfare state.”
While reading, he added, “Now, that was just a joke. I’m not a racist. And to prove it, I, Colin Jost, hereby pledge this season’s salary to Dr. Umar’s School for Black Boys. Now, y’all might not know who that is, but the brothers at home is nodding they heads. And if that’s not enough, I have a beautiful new ferry ready to give any Black person a free one-way trip back to the motherland.”
Che then delivered a joke about grape juice reducing the likelihood of erectile dysfunction in men. As an image of a child with a juice box appeared, he remarked it “explains why my boyfriend is always rock hard.”
Expecting the next joke to involve Michael Jackson, Che told Jost, “You’re a terrible person.”
He continued, “Speaking of giving little boys juice, the movie ‘Michael’ won the box office again this weekend, and since a few members of the Jackson family are actually in the audience tonight, I wanted to take a moment to tell everybody what I really think: Michael Jackson did nothing wrong! He was right to molest all those kids! And they were lucky. I would have paid him to do it. And I did. That’s right, when I was 10 years old, Michael Jackson molested me. And the only thing it gave me was a fetish for middle-aged white women.”
Returning to Jost: “Ye has released a new album called ‘Bully.’ So please try to separate the art from the artist and remember that Ye can make awful music and still be right about Hitler.”
Raising the stakes, Jost went on, “Now, that joke is offensive to everybody, and I do apologize. I’d like to sacrifice the most important thing in my life: my beautiful, award-winning, world-famous … hair. That’s right, I’m shaving off. Send in the barber.”
Jost grinned awkwardly as a man hurried to the “Weekend Update” desk and draped a barber cape over him. As clippers neared his head, Jost said, “Jerome, make me unpretty.”
Before any hair could be cut, Che interjected: “No, no, no! You were really going to do it? Man. You are the greatest comedian of all time.”
The joke swap, which started in 2018, has grown wilder each year. In 2023, Che placed a fake “civil rights activist” next to Jost to shake her head at every racist joke. By 2024, Jost was made to tell risqué jokes about his wife, Scarlett Johansson, while she watched from backstage.
Will Ferrell hosted the Season 51 finale, with Paul McCartney as the musical guest.
Watch the full joke swap below.
