Colin Jost is an American comedian, actor, and writer best known for hosting SNL Weekend Update, a fictional news show that comments on and parodies current events.
Wiki/Biography
Collin Kelly Jost was born in Grimes Hill, Staten Island, New York on Tuesday, June 29, 1982 (2020 age 38). His zodiac sign is Cancer.
He attended Regis High School in Manhattan and graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 2004, majoring in history and literature with a focus on Russian and English literature. While at Harvard, he served as president of the undergraduate humor publication, The Harvard Lampoon.
appearance
Height: 5′ 10½”
Eye Color: Blue
Hair color: dark brown
Family and Race
He grew up in an Irish Catholic family.
Parents and siblings
His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, is the chief medical officer of the New York City Fire Department.
Colin Jost and his mother
His father, Daniel A. Jost, was an engineer and a mechanical drawing teacher at Staten Island Technical High School.
Colin Jost and his father
His brother, Casey Jost, is also a writer and comedian.
Colin Jost and his brothers
Relationship with wife
He was previously romantically linked to Carmel Lobelo (journalist) and Rashida Jones (actress).
Colin Jost and Carmel Lobelo
Colin Jost and Rashida Jones
Colin Jost began dating actress Scarlett Johansson in May 2017 and became engaged in May 2019. They married in October 2020.
Colin Jost and his wife
Scarlett has a daughter, Rose Dorothy Dauriac, from her previous marriage to Romain Dauriac.
Scarlett Johansson and her daughter
Profession
writer
While pursuing his degree, Colin won $5,250 on the college version of The Weakest Link, an American general knowledge game show. After graduation, he began working as a reporter and copy editor for the Staten Island Advance. He then worked as a writer for the short-lived Nickelodeon animated show Kappa Mikey (2006).
After leaving Kappa Mikey, he was hired as a writer for NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 2005. Jost served as head writer from 2009 to 2012, and as co-head writer from 2012 to 2015, a position he reclaimed in late 2017. He frequently collaborates with SNL co-head writer Rob Klein. He took a break from the show after the 2012–13 season of SNL, before executive producer Lorne Michaels invited him to host Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update due to Seth Meyers’ impending departure from the show. Jost accepted the offer and replaced Meyers on the March 1, 2014 show.
He has also written for shows like: Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014), Golden Globes (2018), and Primetime Emmy Awards (2019).
Actor
He wrote the screenplay and had a small role (Officer Greg) in the 2015 comedy film Staten Island Summer.
Colin Jost’s Staten Island Summer
He has appeared in films such as How to Be Single (2016), Tom and Jerry (2021) and The Worst Man.
Awards and Achievements
Saturday Night Live Awards
- 2007, 2009, 2010 Writers Guild of America Comedy/Variety (including talk) Series Award
- 2017 and 2018 Writers Guild of America Comedy/Variety Award – Sketch Series
dispute
- In 2016, he was heavily criticized for making a transgender joke on SNL. He said, “Dating app Tinder announced a new feature this week that gives users 37 different gender identity options. It’s called ‘Why Democrats Lost the Election.’” In response to the hate, he argued that the joke was a way of saying that identity politics, especially on the left, helped Donald Trump unexpectedly defeat Clinton.
- He faced backlash in September 2018 when it was announced that he would co-host the 2018 Emmy Awards with Michael Che. Viewers were skeptical of their hosting due to their regressive sense of humor and poor handling of criticism in the past.
Favorite things
- Food: Spicy chicken wings, crab
- Comedian: Norm MacDonald
- Movies: Mulholland Drive (2001), Groundhog Day (1993)
- Travel destination: Puerto Rico
- American football team: New York Giants
- Baseball team: New York Mets
Facts/Trivia
- He loves surfing and goes to Rincon, Puerto Rico once a year.
Colin Jost Surfing
- His grandfather and great-grandfather were both firefighters on Staten Island. He also claimed that his ancestors were generals in the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) and the Civil War (1861-65), fighting on the side of good in both wars.
- Jost cites Norm MacDonald as his main influence on hosting Saturday Night Live, as he has been a fan of MacDonald’s style since he was a child. He also cites Tina Fey as an influence.
- At the age of ten, he competed in the 50m and 100m breaststroke at the Junior Olympics.
- While in high school, he was editor of the high school newspaper, The Owl, and wrote a humor column called “Owl Poop.”
- In 2009, he was selected as one of the “New Faces” of the Montreal Funny Festival. He has since performed at the Chicago Funny Festival in 2011 and 2012, and at the Montreal Festival in 2010 and 2012.
- In 2014, he was on vacation in St. Barts with his then-girlfriend Carmel Lobello when he was caught on a rock by his own rope while surfing and was swept away by a five-foot wave, bleeding. He was rescued by Jimmy Buffett, an American singer-songwriter and musician who had come to the island with his family. Buffett paddled out to the rocks and cut Jost in half with a knife (which he carried with him when surfing).
- Colin has written the “Cries and Whispers” essay in The New Yorker magazine and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Staten Island Advance, and Radar.
Shouts and Whispers by Colin Jost
- On March 4, 2019, Colin Jost and Michael Che appeared on WWE’s Monday Night Raw and announced themselves as special correspondents for WrestleMania 35. During the show, they angered wrestler Braun Strowman and attempted to eliminate him, leading to their participation in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. In the end, Braun quickly eliminated the two comedians and won the Battle Royal.
Colin Jost at WrestleMania 35
- In late 2018, Jost and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared in an ad campaign for the apparel company Izod.
Colin Jost and Aaron Rodgers shoot Izod ads
- In July 2020, he published his memoir, A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir, which received rave reviews and made the New York Times bestseller list.
- While attending Harvard University, he was roommates with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, and the two lived in Harvard’s Leverett House. In 2015, Jost donated $100 to Buttigieg’s mayoral re-election campaign, and later during Buttigieg’s presidential campaign, Jost played Buttigieg on the 45th season of SNL.
Colin Jost and Pete Buttigieg
- According to him, he was at Harvard University when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and he begged Zuckerberg not to do it because he thought it was a waste of time.
- He hates eggplant, mushrooms and avocados because he has a weak sense of smell and focuses more on the texture of food.
- Colin Jost doesn’t like golf, but he plays it whenever he gets the chance.
Colin Jost playing golf
- He made mocktails and drew cartoons on cocktail napkins whenever he was waiting for someone at a bar. He also sold these mocktails on T-shirts or cocktail napkins.
Colin Jost’s Mocktails
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