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My Take
Colin Jost fascinates me as the Harvard man who chose to make a career out of looking faintly ridiculous. A Staten Island kid who graduated from an elite school and then poured that brainpower into Saturday Night Live, writing since 2005 and anchoring Weekend Update since 2014, he embodies a tension I love, sharp intellect deployed in service of the silly. His Peabody and Writers Guild honors confirm there is craft beneath the clean-cut anchor desk persona. Just when his polish lulls you, the satire lands with real bite. I deeply respect comedians who keep the wit and the foolishness in perfect balance.
Overview
Colin Kelly Jost (; born June 29, 1982) is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014. He also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers from 2017 to 2022 alongside Michael Che.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Colin Jost
- Name (Japanese)
- コリン・ジョスト
- Reading
- こりん・じょすと
- Born
- June 29, 1982 (age 43)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Dog
- Origin
- Staten Island, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 71 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- comedian / actor / screenwriter / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Regis High School
- University
- Harvard University
Awards & achievements
- Peabody Awards
- Writers Guild of America Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://colinjost.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/colinjost/
- Xhttps://x.com/thecolinjost
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Jost
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.