As Saturday Night Live undergoes a sweeping cast purge, Scarlett Johansson has good news for fans of her husband.

Colin Jost, co-anchor of “Weekend Update,” will be back for the show’s 51st season, Johansson confirmed, even as other cast members and writers got the ax.

“He’s going back to work,” the actress, 40, told Entertainment Weekly at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, where her first feature film as a director, Eleanor the Great, is premiering.

Johansson has often appeared alongside Jost, 43, on the show, and was featured in a NSFW “Weekend Update” joke swap segment last season that included a vulgar joke at her expense.

The Avengers star didn’t know whether she would be back for another joke swap this season, since she’s usually asked at the eleventh hour.

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