Colin Jost, in a hilarious moment during Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, couldn't resist taking a playful jab at his wife and himself in light of the recent news that Zoe Saldaña had surpassed Scarlett Johansson as the highest-grossing actress of all time.
"Zoe Saldaña, who stars in the new Avatar movie, has now officially become the highest-grossing actress of all time," he announced during the Jan. 17 episode of SNL, as a bar graph illustrating the earnings of both actresses was displayed on-screen. "Well, let's see what happens if we include the box office from Scarlett's husband's movies."
Scarlett's earnings, which began at $15.4 billion, dropped to $15.1 billion after Colin, 43, delivered his punchline. The comedian couldn't help but react to the crowd's laughter, adding through giggles, "It went down?"
The comments came days after it was reported that the actress had surpassed Scarlett—who is a mother to daughter Rose, 11, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac and Cosmo, 4, with the Weekend Update host—in being Hollywood's top-earning actor thanks to James Cameron's box office-crushing Avatar trilogy.
Indeed, Avatar: Fire and Ash had brought in a staggering $1.23 billion at the worldwide box office on Jan. 12, according to Box Office Mojo. This brought the total gross of all movies starring Zoe to $16.8 billion, per Screen Rant. Those films include Star Trek, Avengers: End Game, and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Scarlett, 41, previously held the record at $16.4 billion, while the rest of the top five is filled out by their Marvel colleagues Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Downey Jr., and Chris Pratt.
This wouldn't be the first time that the SNL star has made jokes surrounding Scarlett's peers. Previously, he shared a lighthearted reaction to his wife's viral kiss with her Jurassic World Rebirth costar Jonathan Bailey.
"In Jurassic Park terms, the attack always comes from the raptor you never thought was there," Colin joked in a July 2025 interview with Entertainment Tonight. "I think it's going to be OK. People really blew it out of proportion. If someone kisses their friend hello, it's pretty nice."
But there was no bad blood between Colin and the Bridgerton star. After all, the two even proposed a solution to make the whole situation more fair.
"Jonathan is an out gay man—it didn’t seem like the biggest threat," Colin quipped. "Jonathan and I were at the red carpet like, 'I guess we have to kiss now? Will that close the loop?'"
