Colin Kelly Jost ( born June 29, 1982 ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is an american comedian, actor, and writer. He has been a writer for Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) since 2005 and Weekend Update co-anchor since 2014. He besides served as one of the show ‘s co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the display ‘s head writers in 2017 alongside Michael Che. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]
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Colin Jost was born and raised in New York City in the Grymes Hill [ 7 ] neighborhood of Staten Island, the elder of two sons. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His beget, Kerry J. Kelly, was the headman medical officeholder for the New York City Fire Department, [ 11 ] and his father, Daniel A. Jost, is a early teacher at Staten Island Technical High School. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] He has one younger brother, Casey Jost, a writer and a producer of Impractical Jokers ; he besides had a character in Staten Island Summer. [ 14 ] [ 15 ]
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Raised Roman Catholic, he attended Regis High School in Manhattan, where he was the editor program of the school newspaper The Owl. [ 14 ] He attended Harvard University, [ 8 ] major in history and literature, with a focus on russian literature and british literature, and wrote his senior thesis on Vladimir Nabokov. Jost graduated cum laude from Harvard in 2004. While at Harvard, he was president of the Harvard Lampoon. [ 9 ] [ 16 ] He besides won $ 5,250 on a college edition of Weakest Link, but said he did not think he deserved to win. [ 17 ]
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After graduation, Jost worked as a reporter and copy editor program for the Staten Island Advance. He was then hired as a writer for a ephemeral Nickelodeon animated picture, Kappa Mikey. After he left that job, he sent in a write mailboat to NBC ‘s Saturday Night Live, which gave him a writing position in 2005. [ 8 ] From 2009 to 2012, Jost was SNL ‘s writing supervisor. He was co-head writer from 2012 to 2015, and regained that condition in late 2017. [ 18 ] He often collaborates with boyfriend SNL co-head writer Rob Klein. [ 19 ] During the summer hiatus following the 2012–13 season, executive producer Lorne Michaels asked Jost if he could do the Weekend Update have [ 8 ] 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. [ 20 ] Jost late broke Meyers ‘ criminal record for being the longest anchor in the history of the segment on the October 23, 2021, sequence hosted by Jason Sudeikis. Jost names Norm Macdonald as a primary determine for his Update anchor study, as Macdonald ‘s tone was the one Jost grew up with in high school. He besides names Tina Fey as an charm. [ 8 ] In accession to Weekend Update, Jost made a brief cameo appearance as Ohio Governor John Kasich in a republican presidential debate sketch. [ 21 ] He later portrayed his friend Pete Buttigieg during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and Roger Goodell during the 2021 NFL season. [ 24 ] Jost has worked in multiple roles related to drollery. He has performed as a stand-up comedian, appearing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, TBS, and HBO. [ 25 ] He was selected as a “ New Face ” at the Montréal Just for Laughs festival in 2009, [ 26 ] and has since appeared at the Chicago Just for Laughs festival in 2011 and 2012 and the Montréal festival again in 2010 and 2012. Jost has published four “ Shouts and Murmurs ” pieces in The New Yorker magazine and has besides contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, The Staten Island Advance and Radar. [ 27 ] He wrote the screenplay of and played a minor role in the 2015 drollery film Staten Island Summer, and he besides had a minor function as Paul in the 2016 romcom feature How to Be Single. [ 28 ] In January 2016, Jost opened for comedian Liam McEneaney ‘s album recording at The Bell House in Brooklyn. [ 29 ] In late 2018, Jost and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared in an advertising campaign for Izod. [ 30 ] Jost, along with Michael Che, appeared on the March 4, 2019, episode of WWE ‘s Monday Night Raw, where both were announced as especial 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. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] At the consequence, 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 the Hardy Boyz. Jost attempted to calm the situation by using his therapist, but Strowman chokeslammed him and eliminated the two comedians in promptly succession, winning the struggle royal. [ 33 ] In July 2020, Jost released a memoir entitled A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir. [ 34 ] The record was well received and appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List. [ 35 ]
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Jost was dorm-mates with 2020 democratic presidential campaigner Pete Buttigieg while the two lived in Leverett House at Harvard. [ 36 ] In 2015, Jost donated money to Buttigieg ‘s mayoral reelection campaign. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Subsequently, during Buttigieg ‘s presidential crusade, Jost portrayed Buttigieg in the 45th temper of SNL. [ 36 ] [ 39 ] Jost began a relationship with actress Scarlett Johansson in May 2017. [ 40 ] In May 2019, the two were engaged. [ 41 ] They married in October 2020, at their New York home. [ 42 ] Johansson gave birth to their son Cosmo in August 2021. [ 43 ]
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