{"id":798152,"date":"2026-05-15T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:20:13","slug":"colin-jost-reveals-the-rejected-snl-joke-that-hegseth-then-did-for-real-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/798152\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost Reveals The Rejected \u2018SNL\u2019 Joke That Hegseth Then Did \u2018For Real\u2019 Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/snl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d star Colin Jost revealed Thursday that the sketch show\u2019s writers recently came up with a cold open idea involving Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/pete-hegseth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, only to scrap it as \u201ctoo ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then Hegseth, whom Jost has portrayed on the show, ended up doing almost the exact same thing \u201cfor real\u201d just two weeks later, he told Jimmy Fallon on \u201cThe Tonight Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jost recalled pitching ideas in the writers room: \u201cI was like, \u2018Would it be funny if Hegseth just did that Bible verse that they have in \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d?\u2019 Remember, from Ezekiel, Samuel L. Jackson?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jost said the idea was deemed \u201ctoo ridiculous\u201d and feared it \u201cwould take up all this time in the cold open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he noted: \u201cAnd then he for real did it, like two weeks later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth did indeed deliver a prayer at the Pentagon in April that echoed one of Samuel L. Jackson\u2019s monologues from the 1994 film \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I was like, \u2018Well, the good news is, I\u2019m being surveilled, so that\u2019s a relief,\u2019\u201d joked Jost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the full interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Colin Jost revealed Thursday that the sketch show\u2019s writers recently came up with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":798153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,43326,171,6986,1747,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-798152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-colin-jost","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-pete-hegseth","12":"tag-saturday-night-live","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116578564742180073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}