Colin Jost joked about Will Smith’s ban from the Academy Awards ceremony throughout Saturday Night time Stay, over the weekend, explaining that the “actual punishment” could be having Smith be required to host the Oscars. Smith will not be allowed to attend the occasion for the following 10 years.

“Is {that a} punishment?” Colin Jost requested in the course of the Weekend Replace. “He can nonetheless be nominated and even win an award. He may even go to the after get together. He simply doesn’t must attend the four-hour ceremony the place somebody is certainly going to make enjoyable of his spouse once more.”

Colin Jost, Will Smith
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“Truthfully, I feel an actual punishment could be to make Will Smith host subsequent 12 months’s Oscars. As a result of, belief me, nothing will make you query your selections in life greater than internet hosting an awards present,” he continued.

Jost and his Weekend Replace costar, Michael Che, hosted the Emmy Awards again in 2018 to largely detrimental opinions.

Smith had been banned from the Oscars for slapping Chris Rock in the course of the ceremony after the comic made a joke evaluating Jada Pinkett Smith to Demi Moore’s character in G.I. Jane. Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia, leading to hair loss.

Take a look at Jost’s section from the Weekend Replace beneath.

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