Scarlett Johansson finally spoke up about the inappropriate joke made about her on Saturday Night Live.
The actress is finally weighing in on that wildly inappropriate SNL joke about her—one that her husband, Colin Jost, had no choice but to read live on air.
And let’s just say, she was as shocked as the rest of us.
In a recent interview with InStyle, the Oscar-nominated actress reflected on the moment Jost delivered a jaw-droppingly vulgar joke about her during the SNL Christmas episode.
The joke was part of the show’s annual “joke swap,” where Jost and co-host Michael Che write ridiculous jokes for each other to read without prior knowledge.
And this time, Che went all in.
“It was so vulgar,” Johansson admitted, adding, “I just can’t believe that they went there.”
Jost himself had previously spilled the beans on The Tonight Show, revealing that Johansson was “genuinely so shocked” when she heard the joke. Now, she’s confirming just how bad it was.
“I was like—it was so gross. It was really gross,” Johansson said with a laugh. “And, like, old-school gross.”
The joke in question? It involved Costco, a discontinued roast beef sandwich, and a very personal reference to Johansson. As Jost read aloud,
“Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from their menu. But I ain’t tripping. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.”
Cue SNL audience gasps. And backstage? Johansson was absolutely floored.
“My experience of it was so funny,” she recalled. Apparently, the SNL producers had warned her that a “vag*na joke” was coming, but she was not prepared for that.
“I was like, ‘I mean, it’s a vag*na joke, how bad could it be?’” she said. “And then as soon as the Costco photo came up, I was like, ‘No! No, Michael!’”
To make matters more intense, the show’s crew was already in place, cameras rolling, ready to capture her real-time reaction.
“All of a sudden, it was like a whole bunch of people holding up lights, and a guy with a video camera. They were waiting for me to react. I felt insane. I was like, ‘I think I’m going to faint,’” she admitted.
While Johansson was ultimately a good sport about it—because, let’s be honest, SNL is basically a weekly roast—she did share that in her personal life, she draws a hard line when it comes to public attention.
Unlike many celebs, she has a strict no-photos-with-fans rule when she’s out and about.
“It really offends a lot of people,” she explained.
“It doesn’t mean I’m not appreciative, of course, that people are fans, or happy to see me. But I always say to people, ‘I’m not working.’ [And that means] I don’t want to be identified as being in this time and place with you. I’m doing my own thing.”
For Johansson, maintaining that boundary is about keeping a sense of self—something she values deeply.
“I like to be in my own thoughts that have nothing to do with what other people think of me,” she added. “I don’t like being self-conscious.”
