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Why Colin Jost Took Years to Finally Ask His Wife, Scarlett Johansson, Out · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Colin Jo just married as Scarlett Johansson back in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty after dating for three years, but he confessed to
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  Speaker 2: The New York Times they first cross paths long before that.
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  Speaker 2: Colin was hired on SNL as a writer back in
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  Speaker 2: five and in his very first year on the job,
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  Speaker 2: Scarlette having a host for the first time, and Colin
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  Speaker 2: even wrote a skit she was featured in, but his
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  Speaker 2: focus was in other places. He says, my first year
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  Speaker 2: as a writer, I wasn't like I should probably ask
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  Speaker 2: one of the hosts out. My thinking was more like,
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  Speaker 2: am I even going to have a job after this year?
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  Speaker 2: There was chemistry when she returned to host over the years,
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  Speaker 2: but both were always in relationships until she hosted again
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  Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen and both happened to be single. Call
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  Speaker 2: in ads. I asked her out after a host dinner
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  Speaker 2: that we have on Tuesday nights. I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to grab a drink? Then we had
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  Speaker 2: drinks until like four in the morning. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: It was not good for my writing, but it was
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  Speaker 2: good for my future marriage. Snel comes back the fiftieth
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  Speaker 2: anniversary season in September.
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