Colin Jost

Colin Jost is an American comedian, writer and actor from Staten Island who studied history and literature at Harvard, where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon. He graduated in 2004, then took a job as a reporter and copy editor at the Staten Island Advance, and wrote for the animated series Kappa Mikey before a writing packet won him a place on the Saturday Night Live staff in 2005. He rose to writing supervisor, served two spells as head writer, and in 2014 replaced Seth Meyers as Weekend Update co-anchor, holding the job longer than anyone before him. He has won two Primetime Emmys and been nominated for nineteen. Jost wrote and appeared in Staten Island Summer (2015) and played Paul in How to Be Single (2016), and he published the memoir A Very Punchable Face, a New York Times bestseller.