Colin Jost Quotes

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Colin Jost

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 29, 1982

I did go to college with him, but everyone's always like, 'Did you meet Mark Zuckerberg? Did you hang out with him?' and I'm like, 'No,' because he was in a lab creating Facebook, and I was, like, learning about alcohol. Well, we did go to school, and I think I'm not really benefiting from that relationship in any way.

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When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.

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Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.

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I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times a week.

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When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.

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I'm a 12-handicap.

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I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

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When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.

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I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

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My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

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Having Twitter on your phone is like being with a journalist that hates you 24 hours a day. Anything you say on that can be spun. Truly, that's what you have to think of it as.

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I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.

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The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.

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I chose to buy a house in Montauk because it has a sleepier vibe than the rest of the East End. I also felt that I would run into city people in East Hampton and wanted more of a buffer.

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Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.

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I didn't understand when somebody thanked me for writing a good sketch, because it was something I wanted to do, but now I totally get it, because when someone writes something great for me, I'm so appreciative.

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Before I went to a meeting at the 'Harvard Lampoon,' I had no idea that there was even a comedy magazine at Harvard, let alone that you could write comedy potentially for a living.

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Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.

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Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.

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Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I wrote for the newspaper, it would be a humor column. If I acted, I wanted to do comedy.

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