The first part of Colin Jost's experience at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games started off on the wrong foot, specifically.
The “Saturday Night Live” comedian said he is receiving treatment for injuries he suffered in Tahiti, where he is helping NBC cover surfing for the Games. On Monday, the “Weekend Update” anchor and memoirist of “A Very Punchable Face” shared a photo of his left foot with three toes wrapped in bandages.
“You know everything is going well when you’ve been in the Olympic medical tent longer than any of the athletes,” she captioned the Instagram photo.
Jost, who arrived in Tahiti last week, said surfing was not the cause of his injury. The real culprit? Tahiti’s coral reefs. On the same day as the opening ceremony, Jost posted a photo of his bloodied foot. “The reef was excited to say hello to me,” he wrote.
As if the bloody image wasn't graphic enough, Jost also gave viewers of the 2024 Olympics even more details about his injury during a broadcast over the weekend.
Speaking to NBC Sports commentator Maria Taylor, Jost said he had been pacing in place “because if I stand still, ants start getting inside the wounds, which is not something I expected,” adding that he would be receiving treatment in a medical tent. In another segment that aired over the weekend, Jost told Taylor that he has become a regular at the medical tent.
“It's like being a war correspondent and saying, 'Army, can I put a Band-Aid on this?'” he joked, later saying his foot had become infected and “hasn't gotten any better.”
In addition to an infected foot, Jost's transmission from Tahiti (the largest island in French Polynesia) also involved local chickens and a makeshift press desk.
“I've got chickens as producers and flies buzzing around the camera,” he told “Olympic Highlights” hosts Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson.
Sounds like paradise.
