Colin Jost and Pete Davidson shocked the nation years ago by purchasing a decommissioned ferry from a New York auction. Recently, Jost appeared on the Smartless podcast to open up about the deal. He also shared his wife Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to the purchase.
Colin Jost shares Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to him buying a ferry
Colin Jost talks about Scarlett Johansson’s reaction to his ferry ownership at the Smartless podcast. Co-host Sean Hayes asked the comedian, regarding the deal, “You paid, you still have to pay, like, don’t you?” Jost replied, “These are [the] exact questions a financial advisor asks me.”
As reported by EW, he shared how he consulted Davidson regarding the purchase. The “Saturday Night Live” writer said, “texted Pete, which is the wrong person to text with when you have an idea like this. And I was like, ‘Should we buy this?”
However, Davidson replied, “‘F— yeah, we’ve got to do this.” Moreover, Jost texted his father, Daniel A. Jost. “And he literally was like, ‘Did you do your homework?’ Which is such a teacher thing to say. I was like, ‘Dad, I’m just sort of texting you as a formality,” he shared. Soon, Jost broke the news to his wife as he stated, “I already bought the boat. Then I texted Scarlett, like, ‘Guess what? We own a ferry now.’ And she was like, ‘We?”
The father of one also explained how it has been misreported that the ferry is “some sort of crazy money pit. “I joke about it a lot, but it is, we’ve done some events on it where we really have already made back the money we’ve invested and the money we’ve spent on stuff to dock it and all that,” Jost said. Additionally, shared his, Davidson, and their architect co-owner, Rob Castellano’s plan for the ferry.
“I was thinking in a real estate way, if you put it somewhere, it’s 70,000 square feet,” the 43-year-old shared. He continued, “So I was like, ‘If you put that on a dock in Manhattan, you’ve suddenly got basically a building on the waterfront.”
Originally reported by Ritika Singh on Mandatory.
