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Colin Jost is still very much alive, even though it may not be completely whole.
The 42-year-old Jost then shared a “foot update” via Instagram on Sunday, August 11 to leave his role as surfing correspondent for NBC’s Tahiti Olympics early. (Jost was replaced by the Australian weatherman during coverage of the semi-finals and finals Luke Bradnam.)
“Dude, are you okay?” That’s the most important text message I’ve received in the last 48 hours. Usually followed by: “I heard your foot fell off” Saturday evening live the star said in a video filmed in Malta, where he is recovering from several ailments, including a foot injury and an ear infection, that hampered his stay in Tahiti.
“Well, I’m actually doing fine, and despite what the major media would have you believe, I wasn’t ‘sent home’ from the Olympics. NBC simply looked at my foot, declared me a legal leper and exiled me here to the island of Malta,” Jost continued.
“Now there aren’t many Olympians competing in Malta this year, but there are thousands of 15-year-old British kids competing to see who can blackout the fastest – and somehow they all win,” he joked the comedian. standing in front of the sea. “There’s also a casino behind me where I blew the hundreds of dollars I made as a surf correspondent.”
Jost continued: “But of course the real reason I’m in Malta is because there were ten separate outbreaks of the bubonic plague there, so they thought I would be a good fit.”
The comedian said he still managed to reach the finals of the surfing competitions and congratulated “American phenomenon Caroline Marks and local Tahitian legend Kauli Vaast‘ about winning gold.
Colin Jost
Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images“I would like to sincerely thank the people of Tahiti for their warmth, their generosity, their hospitality, and for just occasionally looking at my foot and whispering ‘Chupacabra,’” he continued.
“But don’t worry, my foot is pretty much fine, even if I don’t let you look at it,” he added. “Just in case you’re worried, I’ll show you the local newspaper with today’s headline, just so you know I’m still alive,” Jost concluded, showing a photoshopped front page of a newspaper with the headline: “ OJ Not Guilty found.”
Shortly after arriving in Tahiti for his assignment, Jost suffered multiple lacerations to his foot while standing barefoot on a coral reef. “This might ruin my WikiFeet score but I just arrived in Tahiti for the surfing Olympics and the reef was excited to greet me #paris2024 #showfeet,” Jost wrote alongside a photo of his injured foot shared via Instagram on July 26.
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Three days later, he shared a photo of his bandaged toes and the caption: “You know you’re doing great when you’ve been in the Olympic medical tent more times than any athlete.”
On July 30, Jost told NBCs Mike Tirico that he woke up with an ear infection in addition to a staph infection due to his foot injury. “My new goal by the time I leave here is to have as many infections as there are Olympic events,” he joked.