“Weekend Update” co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost are used to sitting behind an anchor desk on Saturday Night Live and delivering punch line-laden takes on the day’s news. But when the duo appeared on this week’s episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it was their turn to put their news know-how to the test.
And when it came to the $4,000 question about the shortest track on Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl album, the pair showed that beneath all the jokes they’re, kind of, Swifties at heart. Well, at least Jost is.
The question was, “Ironically, what innuendo-laden song is the shortest track on Taylor Swift’s album The Life of a Showgirl?,” with the answers including “Wood,” “Anti-Hero,” “Cruel Summer” and “Karma.”
Che, who initially reacted to the question with an “uh-oh,” of course, had jokes, beginning with “Innuendo-laden? Is that a terrorist?,” to which host Jimmy Kimmel yes-and’d “You’re thinking of Innuendo Laden.”
Jost, though, went through the track length of each, randomly throwing out the totally freestyled answer, “‘Cruel Summer’ is 3:23, ‘Karma’ is 4:24,” as Kimmel giggled at the bit. “So, there’s one, that’s why I was originally thinking that it was A,” Jost said, referring to “Wood.” “I don’t want to explain to you why,” he told Che, who paused for a second and then said wide-eyed, “Oh!”
“And, I feel like the irony is, if you know some of the lyrics of the song, is talking about size,” Jost explained, showing off his Swifty knowledge while teasing out the “shortest track” hint in the clue. Che trusted his news pal, telling Jost to, “Lock it in, baby. I wood.”
As any Swiftie knows, “Wood” is the only one of the four on the album and, as suggested by the clue, it is filthy with innuendo about the impressive nature of Swift’s husband Travis Kelce’s package.
Che and Jost survived their Swift challenge and won $250,000 for the charities Answer the Call and Food Bank for NYC on the show.
Watch Che and Jost wrestle with the Swift question below.
