India, May 18 -- Colin Jost and Michael Che's ongoing joke swap battle took a surprising turn during the Season 50 finale of Saturday Night Live, ending with an on-air apology to Scarlett Johansson. In their signature "Weekend Update" bit, the duo once again forced each other to read blind jokes written by the other.

In a twist on their usual antics, this time Johansson herself joined the "Weekend Update" segment. Che, reading from remarks written by Jost, began by saying he wanted to "apologise to someone I hurt" and invited Johansson, the episode's host, to sit beside him. Acknowledging the awkward moment from a previous joke swap, Che added, "last time we did joke swap, I made Colin do some tasteless jokes" about her.

He read, "The f...