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For someone who seems to be head-over-heels with the love of his life, Colin Jost doesn’t say much about his wife, Scarlett Johansson, in “A Very Punchable Face” — his aforementioned 2020 memoir that chronicles his unpredictable and sometimes hilarious path to prosperity on “Saturday Night Live.” On the surface, who could blame him for that oversight, since the tome is written with a rather self-deprecating voice? It’s also chock full of several misadventures of the funnyman defecating in his pants, passing out while intoxicated in a cemetery in Helsinki, and taking a surfboard (not a punch) to the face. And while Jost dedicates a chapter to his mother’s heroism as a chief medical officer with New York City’s fire department during 9/11, curiously, he writes little about his famous relationship.
Howard Stern questioned Jost about that omission that July. “I wanted to keep it clean and this story up until now,” said Jost, whose book concentrates a lot on his time growing up on Staten Island, noting that he was concerned about including “anything that felt non-comedy.”
That said, what literary real estate Jost does dedicate to Johansson is quite touching, especially his feelings when he first met her on the set of “SNL.” Jost describes his wife as “beautiful, smart, sweet, and intimidatingly sophisticated,” noting how she displayed “a grace and a smile that I’ve still never seen in any other human.” He also credits Johansson as his “first reader,” thanking her “for always protecting me from my worst instincts.”
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