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Colin Jost Has Spent 10 Years Torturing Himself for Our Amusement

And no one humiliates him more efficiently than his “Weekend Update” co-anchor Michael Che.

When Colin Jost welcomes viewers to “Weekend Update” next week, it will make his 10th year behind that desk—a remarkable feat given that most Saturday Night Live fans didn’t think he’d last a season. The sequel to that sketch ends with Jost getting repeatedly punched in the face by Kyle Mooney, then Beck Bennett, then host Tiffany Haddish, then Lorne Michaels, all while the rest of the cast watches unmoved. He’s understood that, on paper at least, nobody roots for a Harvard alumnus who got a cushy writer’s gig on SNL shortly after graduating, not to mention a guy who’s inexplicably married to Scarlett Johansson.

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