Colin Jost is very much alive, though he may not be entirely in one piece. Jost, 42, shared a “foot update” via Instagram on Sunday, August 11, after exiting his role as NBC’s Olympics surfing correspondent in Tahiti early. (Jost was replaced during coverage of the semifinals and finals by Australian weatherman Luke Bradnam .
) “‘Dude, are you OK?’ That’s the number one text message I’ve received in the last 48 hours. Usually followed by, ‘Heard your foot fell off,’” the Saturday Night Live star said in a video filmed in Malta, where he is recuperating from various ailments, including a foot injury and an ear infection, which hampered his stint in Tahiti. “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 continued. “Now, Malta doesn’t have many Olympians competing this year, but it does have thousands of 15-year-old British kids to see who can black out the fastest — and somehow they’re all winning,” the comedian quipped while standing in front of the sea. “It also has this casino behind me where I’ve blown the hundreds of dollars I earned as a surfing correspondent.
” A post shared by Colin Jost (@colinjost) Jost continued, “But the real reason I’m in Malta, of course, is because it was the site of 10 separate bubonic plague outbreaks, so .