Colin Jost shares ‘foot update’ after exiting Paris Olympics correspondent job for brutal injury
nypost.comhe had to leave his job as an NBC correspondent covering the Olympics surfing competition in Tahiti due to a foot injury and multiple illnesses.The 42-year-old comedian filmed a video where he spoke to the camera like a news reporter in front of the Mediterranean Sea in Malta.“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 began in his video.“Well, I’m actually fine!” he added. “And despite what big media conspiracies would have you believe, I wasn’t ‘sent home’ from the Olympics.
NBC simply looked at my food, declared me legally a leper, and exiled me here, to the island of Malta!”Jost went on, “Now Malta doesn’t have many Olympians competing this year, but it does have thousands of 15-year-old British kids competing to see who can black out the fastest, and somehow they’re all winning.
It also has this casino behind me, where I’ve blown 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.
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