Colin Jost is a head writer at Saturday Night Live(SNL) and a touring stand-up comedian. He’s appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, TBS and at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal.
Jost returns to SNL as co-anchor of "Weekend Update” alongside fellow cast member Michael Che. Following the tradition of former head writers Tina Fey and Seth Meyers, Jost joined “Weekend Update” in 2014 having been a writer at SNL since 2005 and served as co-head writer for three of those years.
He has won three Writers Guild Awards, a Peabody Award and has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for his work on SNL. Jost also wrote and starred in the Paramount/Netflix film Staten Island Summer, based on his days as a lifeguard growing up in New York.