Following his hosting gig on Saturday Night Live, John Mulaney went on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday to ask the talk show host some hard-hitting questions and discuss his continued disbelief over Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson‘s relationship and recent marriage.
Seth Meyers, who like Mulaney was also a writer on SNL, was the first to bring up the Weekend Update anchor’s famous wife, saying, “We didn’t know you could, like, talk to hosts.” Mulaney replied, “I knew you could talk to them, but the idea of like, you know, ‘May I have this dance?’ Like, are you out of your mind? Are you out of your mind.” He added, however, that asking out one of the biggest actresses in the world isn’t totally out of character for someone with Jost’s level of self-confidence.
Mulaney explained, “We’ve written those musicals together and it’s not divided up like I’m music and he’s insanity, but the sparks spraying out of the wall in the LaGuardia sketch that almost hit a flying Jake Gyllenhaal? That’s Jost’s idea. So that’s the kind of confidence that makes you go up to a movie star and go, like, ‘Hey, what are you doing later?’” He added that the closest he ever got to asking an SNL host out for a drink was asking Danny DeVito to meet his wife.
“I mean, all the people I could have dated,” Mulaney lamented. “Sigourney Weaver, she hosted…I had a box of chocolates and flowers for Helen Mirren and I was going to ask her to go to the Rainbow Room, and then I thought, ‘You know what, there’s probably a no dating the host policy.’” But the comedian decided Jost’s relationship with Johansson is still above-board because “He married her! They married each other, that’s the way you say it now. So it doesn’t break company policy.”
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