Colin Jost May Have Manifested Pete Hegseth’s Wild ‘Pulp Fiction’ Biblical Quote Moment
Jost said writers dropped the idea as too ridiculous, then Hegseth later echoed the same Pulp Fiction monologue in a Pentagon prayer.
- Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost revealed Thursday that he scrapped a sketch idea involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth quoting Pulp Fiction, deeming it "too ridiculous"—only for the scenario to occur in real life two weeks later.
- During a Pentagon "Faith in Military" event on Wednesday, April 16, Hegseth recited a prayer called "CSAR 25:17," which he claimed was intended to reflect the biblical verse Ezekiel 25:17.
- The prayer mirrored a fictional monologue by Samuel L. Jackson in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, replacing biblical text with references to "Combat Search and Rescue" missions and the call sign "Sandy 1."
- Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell defended the remarks, claiming the prayer was an intentional adaptation of a custom prayer used by "Sandy 1" warfighters in Iran, not an accidental misquote.
- Reflecting on the coincidence during The Tonight Show appearance, Jost joked that the incident made him feel like he was "being surveilled," underscoring how comedy writers struggle to outpace real-world events.
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Colin Jost Says ‘SNL’ Rejected Joke About Pete Hegseth Reading ‘Pulp Fiction’ Bible Verse Two Weeks Before It Happened in Real Life
Donald Trump’s defense secretary Pete Hegseth was widely mocked in April after he read a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 classic “Pulp Fiction” during a Pentagon worship service. It turns out Colin Jost sort of saw it coming. During a recent visit to “The Tonight Show,” Jost revealed that before Hegseth’s viral gaffe […]
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We’re living in a tricky age for satire at the moment, as comedians and pundits attempt to uncover the absurdity of a political reality already so screamingly absurd that the whole process is a bit like trying to rub a highlighter onto the sun. Take, for instance, a story Saturday Night Live‘s Colin Jost told on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon last night, revealing that he’d actually nixed a gag about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the gro…
Colin Jost Claims He Predicted Hegseth's 'Pulp Fiction' Biblical Quote
While Saturday Night Live is constantly going after our current political circus, Colin Jost apparently had the jump on one ridiculous real-life moment. The ‘Weekend Update’ co-host recently claimed that he had a rejected cold open joke as Pete Hegseth reciting Samuel L. Jackson’s fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction (1994) before the actual Secretary […]
Colin Jost Wrote A "Joke" About Pete Hegseth That Actually Ended Up Happening In Real Life, And It's Official, The Country Is Beyond Parody
Jost said Saturday Night Live writers deemed the idea "too ridiculous," but Hegseth then did it "for real" just two weeks later.View Entire Post ›
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