Colin Jost Says His Mom Didn’t “Model” Why He and Scarlett Johansson Named Their Son Cosmo
Colin Jost Shares His Mom’s Reaction to Uncommon Toddler Name
It looks, no longer each person was enraged that Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost opted to high-tail alongside with a outlandish title for the most in model member of their family.
On Thursday, Sept. 30, Colin was a guest on The Gradual Video display, the place Seth Meyers asked how the “Weekend Change” host’s relations reacted when studying that he and wife Scarlett’s first child, a son they welcomed in August, was named Cosmo. The Murky Widow actress moreover shares daughter Rose, 7, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
After prefacing his explanation by asserting his family has always been “very supportive,” Colin admitted, “My mother, I’d insist, was a minute thrown by it and didn’t reasonably perceive it. I arrangement no longer know if she idea it was model of like a hippie thing.”
He went on to declare that, long after the couple had already finalized the title on the health facility, his mother was aloof seeking to determine ways to bag them to change it.
“She would name us after three or four days, she’d be like, ‘Cosmo,'” Colin recalled. “And she’d be like, ‘And now, is it final? Fancy, did you publish the delivery certificate?’ And we’re like, ‘Oh, yeah, we did that on the health facility.’ She was like ‘OK, attention-grabbing. Because I was discovering out that there is moreover a title Cosimo with an ‘I,’ so that can also moreover be an possibility. Presumably Cosimo, that is his real title, but then you definately would possibly perchance name him aloof Cosmo.'”
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After telling Seth that he didn’t know why Cosimo would possibly perchance perchance be preferable, Colin said his mother perceived to bear reach around after she spoke to company in her Staten Island neighborhood and realized there are in truth different Cosmos accessible.
“In the end, she started assembly diverse participants of the Italian community who bear plenty of Cosmo relations,” the 39-year-used Saturday Evening Live mainstay shared. “And so then she would name, and she or he would insist, ‘I met any individual—they said their uncle’s title is Cosmo. So it’s miles OK.'”
On the replacement hand, it seemed she aloof wasn’t reasonably done pitching different choices. “Then she goes, ‘There is a patron saint called Cosmos, so that is one other possibility,'” he said. “We arrangement no longer need more worse variants on Cosmo. But thanks, Mom.”
All the arrangement in which by the interview, Colin moreover mentioned that the couple has but to publicly allotment a photograph of their son. He claimed he would possibly perchance perchance be revealing the important thing record all over the episode, alternatively it ended up being a shaggy dog story.
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