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Colin Jost shared a hilarious “foot update” on Instagram on Sunday after a foot injury and multiple ailments forced him to leave his job as an NBC correspondent covering the Tahiti Olympic surfing competition.
The 42-year-old comedian filmed the video in front of the Mediterranean Sea on the island of Malta, speaking to the camera as if he were a news reporter.
“Hey, are you OK? That’s the most common text message I’ve received in the last 48 hours. Usually followed by, ‘I heard your leg fell off,'” Jost began in the video.
“No, I’m actually fine!” he added. “And despite mainstream media conspiracies, I was not ‘homed’ from the Olympics. NBC simply looked at my food, legally declared me a leper and exiled me here to Malta!”
Jost continued: “There may not be any Olympians competing from Malta this year, but there are thousands of 15-year-old British kids competing to see who can black out the fastest, and somehow they all win. And there’s a casino behind me where I’ve wasted a few hundred dollars I earned as a surfing correspondent.”
“But the real reason I’m in Malta, of course, is because there have been 10 outbreaks of bubonic plague in Malta, so they thought I would fit in here.”
After making a few more jokes about Olympic breakdancing competitions, foot photos and peacocks, the “Saturday Night Live” star thanked the people of Tahitian “for their warmth, their hospitality, their generosity and for occasionally looking at my feet and whispering, ‘Chupacabra!'”
“But rest assured,” he continued, “my leg is almost completely fine, even though I don’t show it to you.”
“This is Colin Jost reporting from Tahiti, Malta for the Paris Olympics. I’ll be reporting from Catalina Island at the next Olympics in Los Angeles, so see you there,” Jost concluded.
Yost Cutting my foot on a coral reef This happened when I was covering the Olympics in Tahiti.
he Posted a photo On July 29, he shared photos on social media of his bandaged and bloody wound.
“Having been to the Olympic medical tent more times than any athlete means I’m doing well,” he wrote in the caption.
Jost’s health deteriorated after he developed a staph infection and an ear infection.
“I woke up this morning to find that I’d added an ear infection to my ever-growing list of ailments,” he said. Interview From the pool in Tahiti on July 30th.
“So now I’m on three different drugs — four if you count pina coladas,” he adds hilariously.
Jost later resigned from his job as NBC’s competitive surfing correspondent due to illness.
He was replaced by Australian weather forecaster Luke Bradnam, who had already been in Tahiti covering the Olympics.
Bradnam admitted that he didn’t know who Jost was when he met him in Tahiti before taking over the job.
“I said to one of the staff, ‘Who is that?’ and she said, ‘You know who he is,'” Bradnam recalled in an interview. Reuters August 4th.
“And I said, ‘I don’t know,’ and she said, ‘He’s married to Scarlett Johansson. He was on Saturday Night Live,'” Bradnam added.
