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1. Colin Jost's mom is not quite sure what to make of her grandson's name

Colin Jost's mom really wasn't sure what to make of her son and daughter-in-law, Scarlett Johansson, naming their son Cosmo. "My mom, I would say, was slightly thrown by it and didn't quite understand it," Jost told Seth Meyers on Thursday. "I don't know if she thought it was kind of, like, a hippie thing. She would call us after three or four days, she'd be like, 'Cosmo … And now, is it final? Like, did you submit the birth certificate?'" Jost said it took his mom learning that Cosmo is a big name in the Italian community for her to come around to it, sort of. "She would call, and she would say, 'I met someone. They said their uncle's name is Cosmo. So it is OK,'" Jost said. "Then she goes, 'There's a patron saint called Cosmos, so that's another option.' [I said], 'We don't need more worse variants on Cosmo. But thanks, Mom.'"

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