Colin Jost Height, Age, Wife, Children, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Colin Jost

• He loved acting since childhood. He has acted in the play named Fiddler on the Roof many times at his school.

• After graduation, Jost worked as a reporter and copy editor for the newspaper Staten Island Advance. He was later hired as a writer for a short-lived Nickelodeon animated show, Kappa Mikey.

• He left his job, he started working for the NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which gave him a writing position in 2005.

• He has been a writer on Saturday Night Live (1975) since 2005.

• In September 2018, Jost cohosted the Primetime Emmy Awards, along with Michael Che.

Colin Jost co-hosting the Primetime Emmy Awards along with Michael Che

• On 23 October 2021, he became the longest holding Weekend Update anchor in the history of Saturday Night Live (1975). He anchored around 155 segments which surpassed Seth Meyers’s record.

Colin Jost hosting the show Saturday Night Live

• In 2020, he wrote his memoir “A Very Punchable Face.” The book was well received by the readers and also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Colin Jost’s A Very Punchable Face book cover

• He has published three Shouts and Murmurs pieces in The New Yorker Magazine. He also writes articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, Radar, and Staten Island Advance.

• Jost considers Norm Macdonald as his primary influence for his Update anchor work. He mentioned that he used to cite Macdonald’s tone as he grew up with in high school.

• On April 27, 2024, he hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which is an annual gathering of reporters which is usually entertained by the president and a comedian. Colin gave a 20 mins monologue at the event.

Colin Jost at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

• Jost made a cameo in the 2024 film Fly Me to the Moon, which starred his wife Scarlett Johansson.

Fly Me to the Moon Film poster

• On July 31, 2024, it was announced that Jost would be the host of the game show Pop Culture Jeopardy! on Amazon Prime Video.

• Jost is an avid surfer, he got the opportunity by NBC Sports for covering the surfing competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Although, he had to departed before the competition ended as he faced multiple health issues.

Colin Jost posing with his surfing board at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Tahiti