Colin Jost provided an eagerly awaited “foot update” after having to exit his 2024 Olympics correspondent gig after sustaining multiple injuries and illnesses.
The “Saturday Night Live” star posted a video to Instagram on Sunday in which he resumed his anchor role to share that NBC had relocated him from Tahiti to another far-off land.
“‘Dude, are you OK?’ That’s the no. 1 text message I’ve received in the past 48 hours. Usually followed by, ‘Heard your foot fell off,’” Jost, 42, said in the video.
“Well, I’m actually fine, and despite what big media conspiracies would have you believe, I wasn’t ‘sent home’ from the Olympics. NBC simply looked at my foot, declared me legally a leper, and exiled me here, to the island of Malta!”
Jost noted that while the European country doesn’t have “many Olympians competing this year,” it did have a casino where he blew “the hundreds of dollars I’ve earned as a surfing correspondent.”
“But the real reason I’m in Malta of course is because it was the site of 10 separate bubonic plague outbreaks,” he quipped, “so they thought I would fit right in.”
The comedian signed off his video thanking Tahitians for their warmth and hospitality but more importantly for “only occasionally looking at my foot and and whispering ‘Chupacabra!’”
NBC flew Jost to Tahiti to commentate on the surfing competition, but his trip was cut short after he severely injured his foot from stepping on a coral reef.
“I actually have been walking in place in this yard because if I stand still, ants begin crawling inside the wounds,” he shared on-air. “Not something I anticipated.”
Jost’s infection worsened, so medics needed to tend to him daily to make sure it healed properly; however, he then developed an ear infection.
“So I’m now on three different medications — four if you count piña coladas,” he quipped during a July broadcast.
Jost’s mounting ailments and sudden departure prompted the funnyman to issue a statement that “rumors” of his “death have been greatly exaggerated.”
