On a recent appearance ofThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon(viaEntertainment Weekly),Saturday Night Livecast member and Weekend Update co-hostColin Jostrevealed he once appeared on a 2002 college edition of the game showWeakest Link, and that he didn’t do so hot on the show.
“I was extremely nervous,” Jost told Fallon. “It was in Los Angeles — I had never been to Los Angeles before. I’d never been on any sort of show, and I was there and… I wouldn’t say that I did great on the show.”
Fallon proceeded to show a clip from Jost’s appearance onWeakest Link, in which the Harvard sweatshirt-wearing twenty-something answered the question, “What season is August in?“Jost mistakenly said Fall(the correct answer is Summer). Jost notes that he even thought about the question first before answering, and still managed to get it wrong.The clip shows Jost burying his face in his hands in embarrassment.
Though his first few rounds were dicey, Jost was able to stay in the game until the very end.
“That game show had a voiceover every round, and every single round, it was, ‘Statistically, the weakest link this round was Colin.’ Every single round… And then I managed to get in, survive ‘til the end, and then I ran the table at the end. But I had been so bad at the game that there was almost no money to win because I had gotten it all wrong. So I won like $5,000, which at the time was great.”
What did Jost do with the $5,000? In true college student fashion,he decided to throw a party for himself and the other contestants on the episode who were staying at the same hotel. “I just used all the money, and we bought like, beer and wine, and went in a giant 20-person hot tub… And that was basically the money.”
Jost Regularly Gets Embarrassed by Weekend Update Co-Host Michael Che
Saturday Night Livemade its return to the airwaves on August 24, 2025, with host Dave Chapelle and musical guest GloRilla.Jost is currently the longest-serving host of Weekend Update, having made his debut behind the desk in 2014.
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He and co-host Michael Che have a tradition on the last show of every year wherebythe anchors read jokes live on the air written by the other, that they’ve never seen before. This usually leads to more embarrassment on Jost’s part, given that Che’s jokes are usually racial in nature.
For the last show of 2024, however, Che ramped up the awkward factor by havingJost read jokesabout his wife Scarlett Johansson, who was backstage listening in. The material was very NSFW, to say the least, and it left both Jost and Johansson laughing in shock.
Saturday Night Live
The longest-running sketch-comedy/satire show on television, premiering in 1975, Saturday Night Live is a weekly series that features new hosts for each episode, with a core cast of actors and comedians that rotate over time. Episodes feature several skits that are sometimes ad-libbed on the fly, with the hosts engaging in most of them, and also provide musical guest performances that cap off each night.
