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Colin Jost Claims He Predicted Pete Hegseth’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ Biblical Quote In Rejected ‘SNL’ Joke: “That Would Be Too Ridiculous”

Deadline·Glenn Garner·17 days ago
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While Saturday Night Live is constantly going after our current political circus, Colin Jost apparently had the jump on one ridiculous real-life moment. The ‘Weekend Update’ co-host recently claimed that he had a rejected cold open joke as Pete Hegseth reciting Samuel L. Jackson’s fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction (1994) before the actual Secretary of Defense did just that at a prayer sermon he hosted last month at the Pentagon. “We were talking in the writers room, we were pitching ideas for one of the cold opens like two months ago,” he recalled on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . “And I was like, ‘Would it be funny if Hegseth just did that bible verse that they have in Pulp Fiction ‘ … we talked about it, and we were like, ‘That would be too ridiculous, and it would take up all this time in the cold open—'” Jost added, “And then, he for-real did it like two weeks later! And I was like, ‘Well, the good news is, I’m being surveilled.…

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