Colin Jost Biography – Colin Jost Wiki
Colin Jost born Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He has been a writer for Saturday Night Live since 2005 and Weekend Update co-anchor since 2014. He also served as one of the show’s co-head writers from 2012 to 2015, and later came back as one of the show’s heads writers in 2017.
While a student at Harvard, he was president of the Harvard Lampoon, a pipeline for many of the nation’s future comedy writers. He also won $5,250 on a college edition of Weakest Link but said he did not think he deserved to win. After graduation, he worked as a reporter and copy editor for the Staten Island Advance. He was then hired as a writer for a short-lived Nickelodeon animated show, Kappa Mikey. After he left that job, he sent in a writing packet to NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which gave him a writing position in 2005.
From 2009 to 2012, he was SNL’s writing supervisor. He was a co-head writer from 2012 to 2015 and regained that status in late 2017. He often collaborates with fellow SNL co-head writer Rob Klein. During the summer hiatus following the 2012–13 season, executive producer Lorne Michaels asked Jost if he could do the Weekend Update feature because co-anchor Seth Meyers would soon be leaving to host Late Night with Seth Meyers. Jost accepted and replaced Meyers on the March 1, 2014, episode.
He names Norm Macdonald as a primary influence for his Update anchor work, as Macdonald’s tone was the one Jost grew up with in high school. He also names Tina Fey as an influence. In addition to Weekend Update, he made a brief cameo appearance as Ohio Governor John Kasich in a Republican presidential debate sketch.
Jost has worked in multiple roles related to comedy. He has performed as a stand-up comedian, appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, TBS, and HBO. He was selected as a “New Face” at the Montréal Just for Laughs festival in 2009 and has since appeared at the Chicago Just for Laughs festival in 2011 and 2012 and the Montréal festival in 2010 and 2012. He has published four “Shouts and Murmurs” pieces in The New Yorker magazine and has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Staten Island Advance, and Radar. He wrote the screenplay of and played a minor role in the 2015 comedy film Staten Island Summer, and he also had a minor role as Paul in the 2016 romcom feature How to Be Single. In late 2018, Jost and Green Bay Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers appeared in an advertising campaign for Izod.
Jost, along with Michael Che, appeared on the March 4, 2019, episode of WWE’s Monday Night Raw, where both were announced as special correspondents for WrestleMania 35. In the March 4 episode, they got involved in a storyline with wrestler Braun Strowman, which resulted in both Jost and Che becoming participants in the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania. At the event, Jost and Che went under the ring for the majority of the match and then tried to eliminate Strowman while he was trying to do the same to Hardy Boyz. Jost attempted to calm the situation by using his therapist, but Strowman chokeslammed him and eliminated the two comedians in quick succession, winning the battle royal.
In July 2020, he released a memoir entitled, A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir. The book was well received and appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List. He studied at Regis High School in Manhattan, where he was the editor of the school newspaper The Owl. He attended Harvard University, where he majored in history and literature, with a focus on Russian literature and British literature, and wrote his senior thesis on Vladimir Nabokov. He graduated cum laude from Harvard in 2004.
Colin Jost Age
He was born on June 29, 1982, in Staten Island, New York, United States.
Colin Jost Wife
He is married to his wife Scarlett Johansson since 2020. He started a relationship with actress Scarlett Johansson in May 2017; they first met on the set of SNL in 2006 when Johansson was hosting for the first time and Jost had just become a writer on the show. The couple became engaged in May 2019 and married in October 2020. On August 18, 2021, Jost confirmed that he and Johansson had their first child.
Colin Jost Children
On August 18, 2021, he confirmed that he and Johansson had their first child, a baby boy named Cosmo.
Colin Jost Family
He was born and raised in New York City in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island, the elder of two sons. His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, was the chief medical officer for the New York City Fire Department, and his father, Daniel A. Jost, is a former teacher at Staten Island Technical High School. He was raised Roman Catholic.
He has a brother named Casey Jost who is a writer and a producer for the hidden camera show Impractical Jokers. He also had a role in Staten Island Summer.
Colin Jost Height
He stands at a listed height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Colin Jost Instagram
Colin is active on his Instagram account as @colinjost.
