Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures
When Colin Jost determined to buy a decommissioned Staten Island ferry boat to the tune of $280,000 with fellow Saturday Evening Stay alum Pete Davidson in 2022, the unorthodox resolution turned the butt of many jokes — a number of made by Jost himself. However he says that his spouse, Scarlett Johansson, is one one who’s taken the funding in stride.
Chatting with Folks in an interview posted Friday, September 13, Jost, 42, quipped that the ferry “is totally the dumbest and least thought-through buy I’ve ever made in my life … The best way I justified it’s for the sum of money we had been placing into shopping for it, on only a fundamental square-footage stage, is when you discovered the best place for it to be, you had been basically shopping for a constructing on its facet that’s 65,000 sq. toes. So round New York, that could be a superb worth per sq. foot.”
Nonetheless, he famous that Johansson, 39, whereas initially disbelieving that he’d really purchased the craft, has been supportive.
“She was identical to, ‘Wait, so that you personal this boat now?’ Particularly reasonable query,” Jost mentioned of Johansson’s response. “She now clearly sees the worth in it, but additionally I feel she’s like, ‘It’s now turn into one thing that could be a defining factor for you guys and an fascinating factor for you guys. So you need to take it severely and determine the very best model of it, as a result of for higher or worse, it’s going to replicate on you.’”
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost’s love story is one for the books. The Golden Globe nominee and the Saturday Evening Stay star had been first noticed collectively in Could 2017 at an afterparty celebrating the NBC selection present’s season 42 finale. One yr later, he referred to as Johansson his “girlfriend” throughout a “Weekend Replace” section on SNL. […]
That mentioned: “[Pete and I] don’t care as a result of we’re comedians,” Jost joked.
Jost and Davidson, 30, purchased the ferry two years in the past with the intent to rework it into an leisure venue, however not a lot has come of that specific endeavor as of but. (Jost did communicate to the outlet from the ferry, which was internet hosting a Tommy Hilfiger present on board throughout New York Style Week.) He’s taken the chatter and ribbing in regards to the extravagant buy in good humor, even making his personal pointed barbs aimed toward himself on SNL.
“This yr marks the primary time since 2009 {that a} Marvel film has not kicked off the summer time film season,” he deadpanned throughout the Could 11 episode of the comedy sketch present in its ‘Weekend Replace” section. “[It] higher be a one-time factor as a result of lots of people depend on Marvel films to pay for the ferries they purchased.” (Johansson has starred as Black Widow within the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2010.)
Jost has been married to Johansson since 2020 after assembly her on the set of SNL.