Colin Jost Wiki, Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography and More – WikiBio
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Colin Jost is an American comedian, actor and writer best known for hosting the SNL Weekend Update, a fictional news show commenting on and parodying current events.
Wiki/Biography
Colin Kelly Yost was born on Tuesday 29 June 1982 (Age 38; as of 2020) at Grymes Hill in Staten Island, New York. His zodiac sign is Cancer.
He attended Regis High School in Manhattan and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 2004, majoring in History and Literature with an emphasis on Russian and English literature. While studying at Harvard, he served as president of the undergraduate humor publication Harvard Satire.
appearance
high : 5′ 10½”
eye color: blue
hair color: dark brown
family and race
he is in a irish catholic family.
parents and siblings
His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, was the chief medical officer of the New York City Fire Department.
His father, Daniel A. Jost, was an engineer and mechanical drawing teacher at Staten Island Technical High School.
His younger brother, Kathy Yost, is also a writer and comedian.
relationship with wife
He has dated Carmel Lobello (reporter) and Rashida Jones (actress).
Colin Yost started dating actress Scarlett Johansson in May 2017 and got engaged in May 2019. They got married in October 2020.
Scarlett has a daughter named Rose Dorothy Dauriac, who was previously married to journalist Romain Dauriac.
Profession
writer
While pursuing graduation, Colin won $5,250 on the college version of The Weakest Link, an American common sense-based 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).
When he left Kappa Mikey, he was hired as a writer by NBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 2005. Jost served as Head of Writing from 2009 to 2012, and as Co-Lead Writer from 2012 to 2015, retaking the position in late 2017. He frequently collaborates with SNL Co-Lead Writer Rob Klein. He suspended the show after SNL’s 2012-13 season, before executive producer Lorne Michaels asked him to do Saturday Night Live: Weekend Update because Seth Meyers was leaving the show. Yost accepted the offer and replaced Meyers in the March 1, 2014 episode.
He has also written scripts for Seth Meyers’ Late Night (2014), Golden Globes (2018), and Primetime Emmys (2019).
acting
He wrote the script and played a small role (Officer Greg) in the 2015 comedy film Summer in Staten Island.
He has starred in films: How to Be Single (2016), Tom and Jerry (2021) and The Worst Man.
Awards and Achievements
Saturday Night Live Winner
- 2007, 2009, 2010 Writers Guild of America Comedy/Variety (Including Talk) Series Award
- Writers Guild of America Comedy/Variety Awards – Sketch Series 2017 and 2018
dispute
- In 2016, he faced fierce criticism after he made a transgender joke on SNL. Dating app Tinder announced a new feature this week that gives users 37 different gender identity options, he has said. It’s called, why the Democrats lost the election. In response to the hatred he received, he saw the joke as arguing that identity politics, particularly the left, helped Donald Trump achieve his surprise victory over Clinton.
- When it was announced in September 2018 that he would be hosting the 2018 Emmys with Michael Che, he faced backlash. Viewers were skeptical of their hosts because of their throwback sense of humor and poor handling of criticism in the past.
favorite things
- food: buffalo wings, crab
- comedian: Norm MacDonald
- Movie: Mulholland Drive (2001), Groundhog Day (1993)
- Travel destination: Puerto Rico
- American football team: New York Giants
- Baseball Team: New York Mets
Facts/trivia
- His grandfather and great-grandfather were Staten Island firefighters. He also claimed that his ancestors were generals in the American Revolution (1775-83) and the Civil War (1861-65), who were on the right side.
- Jost credits Norm Macdonald as having a major influence on his work as an anchor on SNL Update, as he grew up with MacDonald’s tone. He also sees Tina Fey as an influence.
- At the age of ten, he competed in the 50m and 100m breaststroke at the Junior Olympics.
- During high school, he was editor of the high school newspaper The Owl and wrote a humorous column called “Owl Poop.”
- In 2009, he was selected as the “Fresh Face” at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal. Since then, he has appeared at the Chicago Just for Laughs Festival in 2011 and 2012 and the Montreal Music Festival in 2010 and 2012.
- In 2014, while on vacation in St. Barts with his then-girlfriend, Carmel Lobello, he was pinned to a rock by his belt while surfing, and he was bled by a 5-foot wave. He was rescued by Jimmy Buffett (American singer-songwriter and musician) who came with his family. Buffett paddled onto the rock and cut Yost with the knife (the one he carried with him while surfing).
- Colin has written “Screams and Whispers” for The New Yorker and has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, Staten Island Forward, and Radar .
- 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. On the show, they angered wrestler Braun Strowman and tried to eliminate Strowman. In the end, Braun eliminated two comedians one after another and won Clash Royale.
- In late 2018, Yost and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared in an ad campaign for apparel company Izod.
- In July 2020, he published his memoir “A Very Beatable Face: A Memoir”, which received rave reviews and landed on the New York Times bestseller list.
- While studying at Harvard, he lived with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, both at Harvard’s Leverett House. In 2015, Yost donated $100 to Buttigieg’s mayoral re-election campaign, and Jost later played Buttigieg on SNL Season 45 during Buttigieg’s presidential campaign.
- According to him, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard when he started Facebook, and he begged him not to do it because he thought it was a waste of time.
- He hates eggplants, mushrooms and avocados because he has a weak sense of smell and focuses more on the texture of the food.
- He makes mocktails, and whenever he’s waiting at a bar, he draws cartoons on cocktail napkins. He also sells mocktails printed on T-shirts or cocktail napkins.
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