Colin Jost Net Worth is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter best recognized for his work on the popular talk show ‘Saturday Night Live’ where he has been serving as a writer since 2005. He is also known for co-anchoring ‘Weekend Update’ since 2014. Jost has won a Peabody Award, four Writers Guild awards (WGA) as well as multiple Emmy Awards for his work on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ As a stand-up comedian, he has performed on the show ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’ and has also made appearances on HBO and TBS.
Early Life and Bio: Colin Jost Net Worth
Colin Jost was born on June 29, 1982 in Staten Island, New York, the USA to Daniel A. Jost and Kerry J. Kelly. He has a brother named Casey who serves as a writer for Impractical Jokers. His father worked as a teacher at Staten Island Technical High School and later took up an engineering job. His mother served the New York City Fire Department as the chief medical officer. Jost attended Regis High School in Manhattan. Later, he enrolled at Harvard University.
Colin Jost Net Worth
Colin Jost is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who has a net worth of $10 million. He has earned this humungous net worth from his acting, comedy and writing career where he has acted in various movies and TV shows and has also hosted many shows along with famous personalities. Colin earns $25,000 per episode of Saturday Night Live. Assuming he makes at least one appearance on all 21 episodes per year, Colin would make around $525,000 per season of SNL.
Colin Jost Net Worth: Personal Life
Colin Jost dated actress and comedian Rashida Jones Before meeting his current wife. He began dating actress Scarlett Johansson in May of 2017, and they became engaged two years later. The couple tied the knot in October of 2020 in a private, small ceremony. She has a daughter from her previous marriage to French businessman Romain Dauriac.
Career
In 2005, he was hired for NBC’s Saturday Night Live’ (SNL) as a writer. From 2009 to 2012, he served as a writing supervisor for the show. From 2012 to 2015, he worked in the position of co-head writer and then regained the same status in late 2017. In 2014, Jost joined the cast of ‘Weekend Update’ as a co-anchor. As a writer, he has his work published in ‘The New Yorker Magazine.’ Besides this, he frequently writes articles for ‘Radar,’ ‘The Huffington Post,’ ‘The New York Times Magazine’ and ‘Staten Island Advance.’ Jost wrote the screenplay of the 2015 comedy flick ‘Staten Island Summer’ in which he also had a minor role. He then played Paul in the film ‘How to Be Single’. As a stand-up comedian, the American artist has appeared in the show ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’. He has also appeared on TBS and HBO. In 2009, Jost became a ‘face’ at the Montréal Just for Laughs festival. Since then, he has performed numerous times at the Montréal festival and the Chicago Just for Laughs festival.
Social media
Colin Jost is active on Instagram with the username @colinjost and has around 629k followers on his Instagram account. He shares pictures related to his life happenings on his social media handles.
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