Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. All News Sport Culture Lifestyle SNL’s Colin Jost said Hegseth sketch was rejected for being too ridiculous — then it happened in real life Saturday Night Live 's Colin Jost revealed that a sketch idea involving Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quoting a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction was rejected as "too ridiculous." Jost recounted on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that this exact scenario, which he pitched two months prior, actually occurred two weeks later. Last month, Hegseth delivered a sermon at the Pentagon where he quoted a passage he identified as Ezekiel 25:17, but which was actually from the cult-classic movie. Hegseth's prayer, which he called "CSAR 25:17," closely mirrored the lines spoken by Samuel L. Jackson's character, Jules Winnfield, in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film.…