{"id":240943,"date":"2026-01-19T14:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240943\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T14:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T14:49:08","slug":"colin-jost-on-scarlett-johansson-replaced-as-highest-grossing-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240943\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost on Scarlett Johansson Replaced as Highest Grossing Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Jost Reacts to Zoe Salda\u00f1a Replacing Scarlett Johansson as Highest-Grossing Actress<\/p>\n

Colin Jost does in fact play about Scarlett Johansson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following news of The Avengers star being replaced by Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a> as the highest-grossing actor of all time, Colin couldn\u2019t help but poke fun at his wife\u2014and himself\u2014during a hilarious joke on Saturday Night Live\u2019s Weekend Update.<\/p>\n

\u201cZoe Salda\u00f1a\u2014who stars in the new Avatar movie\u2014has surpassed Scarlett Johansson to become the highest grossing actress of all time,\u201d he said during the Jan. 17 episode of SNL<\/a> while a bar graph of both the actress\u2019 earnings was displayed on-screen. \u201cOkay, well let\u2019s see what happens if you include the box office from Scarlett\u2019s husband\u2019s movies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scarlett\u2019s earnings, which began at $15.4 billion, dropped to $15.1 billion after Colin, 43, delivered the punchline. And the comedian couldn\u2019t help but react with the crowd\u2019s laughter. As he added through giggles, \u201cIt went down?\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin\u2019s comments come days after it was reported that the Emilia P\u00e9rez actress surpassed Scarlett<\/a>\u2014who is mom to daughter Rose, 11, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac and Cosmo, 4, with the Weekend Update host\u2014in being Hollywood\u2019s top-earning actor thanks to James Cameron\u2019s box office-crushing Avatar trilogy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colin Jost Reacts to Zoe Salda\u00f1a Replacing Scarlett Johansson as Highest-Grossing Actress Colin Jost does in fact play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-240943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}