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Colin Jost<\/strong><\/a> narrowly avoided losing his “award-winning” hair live on air during Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a>‘s season 51 finale.<\/p>\n

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The hair-mergency was the culmination of the latest “Weekend Update Joke Swap”<\/a> segment on Saturday, May 16, where Jost, 43, and his cohost Michael Che<\/strong> read offensive jokes they wrote for each other. After brutal jokes about Michael Jackson<\/strong> and Michael B. Jordan<\/strong>\u2018s Oscar win, Jost had to read a zinger that Che wrote about Kanye West<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“Ye has released a new album called Bully<\/em><\/a>,” Jost began. “Please try to separate the art from the artist. Remember, Ye can make awful music and still be right about Hitler<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

(In January, West, 48, publicly apologized<\/a> for making antisemitic comments in the past, insisting that he is “not a Nazi or an antisemite.”)<\/p>\n

As the SNL<\/em> studio audience cringed, Jost acknowledged that his joke was “offensive to everyone” before reading a mea culpa penned by Che.<\/p>\n

“To apologize, I’d like to sacrifice the most important thing in my life: my beautiful, award-winning, world-famous hair,” Jost said. “That’s right, I’m shaving it off! Send in the barber.”<\/p>\n

A shocked Jost was joined on stage by a barber, who promptly put a smock over the comedian’s shoulders and whipped out a razor.<\/p>\n

“Jerome, make me un-pretty,” Jost wearily read from the teleprompter.<\/p>\n

Just before the barber started shaving his head, Che, 42, intervened to ask whether his comedy partner would actually go through with the stunt.<\/p>\n

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“Man, you are the greatest comedian of all time,” Che told Jost as they both chuckled. “No, don’t do it!”<\/p>\n

“I was so scared,” Jost admitted.<\/p>\n

While Jost got away unscathed this time, the “Joke Swap” has had some major consequences for him in the past. In December 2024, SNL<\/em> cameras caught Jost’s wife Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>‘s disgusted reaction<\/a> to a vulgar joke Che wrote about her.<\/p>\n

“Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid,” a horrified Jost read.<\/p>\n

The Marvel star admitted to InStyle<\/em> in March 2025 that she was completely caught off guard<\/a> by the crudity of Che’s one-liner.<\/p>\n

“It was so vulgar. I just can’t believe that they went there,” she admitted. “I was like – it was so gross. It was really gross. And, like, old-school gross.”<\/p>\n

The couple got their revenge during SNL<\/em>‘s season 50 finale when they teamed up<\/a> to write embarrassing jokes for Che to read.<\/p>\n

“The fact is, I was just lashing out because I’m jealous,” a smirking Che told Jost and Johansson, 41. “I’ve never ever seen a human vagina. And notice I said \u2018human’ because I once spent the summer on a farm.”<\/p>\n

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Saturday Night Live<\/em> returns with season 52 on NBC this fall.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 Us Weekly. All rights reserved<\/i><\/p>\n

This story was originally published May 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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