Colin Jost

Colin Jost (born June 29, 1982), born Colin Kelly Jost, 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 again from 2017 to 2022 alongside Michael Che. He is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and nineteen-time Emmy Award nominee for his work on Saturday Night Live and as a host of the Netflix gameshow Pop Culture Jeopardy!.

Jost was born in New York City and raised in a Catholic household in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island. His mother, Kerry J. Kelly, was the chief medical officer for the New York City Fire Department, and his father, Daniel A. Jost, was a teacher. He attended Regis High School in Manhattan, where he edited the school newspaper, then studied history and literature at Harvard University, focusing on Russian and British literature and writing his senior thesis on Vladimir Nabokov. He was president of The Harvard Lampoon and graduated cum laude in 2004.

After graduation he worked as a reporter and copy editor for the Staten Island Advance and wrote for the Nickelodeon animated show Kappa Mikey before joining SNL in 2005. He replaced Seth Meyers as Weekend Update co-anchor on the March 1, 2014, episode, and broke Meyers' record as the longest-serving anchor in the segment's history with the October 23, 2021, episode. He has named Norm Macdonald and Tina Fey as influences. Jost wrote the screenplay for the 2015 film Staten Island Summer, co-hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards with Michael Che in 2018, and in 2025 received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the College of Staten Island, CUNY.