Colin Jost

Colin Jost
Jost at Citi Field in 2015
Birth name	Colin Kelly Jost
Born	(1982-06-29) June 29, 1982 Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up television film
Alma mater	Harvard University
Years active	2005–present
Genres	Political/news satire observational comedy sketch comedy blue comedy insult comedy surreal humor
Subject(s)	Mass media/news media/media criticism American politics American culture current events pop culture

Colin Kelly Jost^[1] (/dʒoʊst/, born June 29, 1982)^[1][2] is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is known for his work on Saturday Night Live, where he has served as a writer 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 it was announced that he would come back as one of the show's head writers in December 2017.^[3][4][5][6]

Early life

Colin Jost was born and raised on Staten Island, New York.^[7][8][9] He has one brother, Casey Jost, who had a role in Staten Island Summer and is a writer for Impractical Jokers.^[10] His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, was the chief medical officer^[11] for the New York City Fire Department and a physician on Staten Island, and his father, Daniel A. Jost, is an engineer and former teacher at Staten Island Technical High School.^[12][13] Jost was raised Roman Catholic. He attended Regis High School in Manhattan, where he was the editor of the school newspaper The Owl,^[10] and Harvard University,^[7] where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon.^[8][14]

Career

While at Harvard, Jost won $5,250 on a college edition of Weakest Link. Shortly after graduating from Harvard, he was hired as a writer at NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 2005^[7] at 22 years old. From 2009 to 2012 Jost was SNL's writing supervisor. He was co-head writer from 2012 to 2015 and regained that status in late 2017.^[15] He often collaborates with fellow SNL co-head writer Rob Klein.^[16] During the summer hiatus following the 2012-13 season, executive producer Lorne Michaels asked Jost if he could do the "Weekend Update" feature,^[7] as 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.^[17] Jost 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.^[7] In addition to Weekend Update, Jost made a brief cameo appearance as Ohio Governor John Kasich in a Republican presidential debate sketch.^[18]

As a stand-up comedian, Jost has appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon as well as on TBS and HBO.^[19] He was selected as a "New Face" at the Montreal Just for Laughs festival in 2009,^[20] and has since appeared several times at the Chicago Just for Laughs festival (2011 and 2012) and the Montréal festival (2010 and 2012). Jost has published three "Shouts and Murmurs" pieces in The New Yorker magazine, in addition to writing for The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Staten Island Advance and Radar.^[21] Jost wrote the screenplay of and played a minor role in the 2015 comedy film Staten Island Summer. He also had a minor role as Paul in the 2016 romcom feature How to Be Single.^[22]

In Autumn of 2018 Jost and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared in an advertising campaign for Izod.^[23]

Personal life

Jost began a relationship with actress Scarlett Johansson in December 2017.^[24]

Filmography

Bibliography

• "Explaining your Time Warner bill". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 87 (7): 33. April 4, 2011.
• "A few more bank security questions". Daily Shouts. The New Yorker. July 13, 2012.
• "Automatic reply". Shouts & Murmurs. The New Yorker. 88 (45): 30. January 28, 2013.

Awards and honors

References

External links

• Colin Jost on IMDb