Michael Che and Colin Jost have a long-running Weekend Update tradition where they write surprise jokes for each other to read live, without seeing them beforehand. It’s meant to catch the other off guard — and it’s usually brutal or wildly uncomfortable.

In this case, Colin Jost got revenge on Che by making him read a joke that insulted Scarlett Johansson — Jost’s own wife. The joke put Che in an impossible position: if he reads it, he insults a beloved celebrity and his co-worker’s wife. If he doesn’t, he ruins the bit. So he reads it, then immediately freaks out and starts apologizing on air.

That’s the revenge: Jost used his real-life marriage to Scarlett Johansson as a trap to mess with Che on national TV — and it worked perfectly.