Colin Jost is known for his work on Saturday Night Live (1975), Paul Rudd Pitches Harvey Weinstein (2011) and Saturday Night Live: Best of This Season (2014).

Performs with group "The War Dogs". Studied "the History and Literature of Russia and Britain" at Harvard. Graduated from Harvard University in 2004, where he was president of the Harvard Lampoon. Did speech and debate at Regis High School. Tours around different cities to perform stand-up comedy. Has been a writer on Saturday Night Live since 2005. Graduated from Regis High School in 2000 with honors. Appears at comedy festivals such as Just for Laughs. At school, Colin's teachers would let him and his friends reenact SNL sketches and read David Letterman Top 10 Lists. Good friends with Seth Meyers and John Mulaney . Is a Roman Catholic. Acted in the play "Fiddler on the Roof" many times at school. His influences include Tina Fey and Norm MacDonald . His mother, Dr. Kerry J. Kelly, is a Chief Medical Officer for the New York City Fire Department and a physician, while his father, Daniel A. Jost, is a former teacher at Staten Island Technical School. He has published 3 "Shouts and Murmurs" pieces in The New Yorker Magazine and writes articles for The New York Times Magazine, The Huffington Post, Radar, and Staten Island Advance.