Colin Kelly Jost was born on 29 June 1982, in Staten Island, New York, USA, to Kerry and Daniel, and is probably best known as an actor from playing Paul in ‘‘How to Be Single’’. Additionally, Jost is known as a writer of ‘‘Saturday Night Live’’.
So just how rich is Colin Jost as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, this actor, comedian and writer has a net worth of $1.5 million, accumulated from his 13 years-long career in the mentioned fields.
Colin Jost Net Worth $1.5 Million
Jost was a student of Regis High School located in Manhattan, and having matriculated he enrolled into Harvard University, where he was also the editor of ‘‘The Owl’’, the university’s newspaper, and president of the university’s humourous publication “Harvard Lampoon”. Shortly after his graduation in 2005, Colin began working as a writer for the ‘‘Saturday Night Live’’, a hit TV series broadcast on NBC, and continued until 2012 creating 102 episodes, establishing himself in the comedy and television world, after which he moved up to head writer, and over the course of the next six years contributed to 62 episodes. His episodes featured some of the biggest names from the entertainment business, such as Katy Perry, Dwayne Johnson, Troye Sivan, Chris Pine, Ryan Gosling and Jay-Z. In 2014, he was a head writer of the special entitled ‘‘Saturday Night Live: Best of This Season’’, which featured celebrities such as Don Pardo, Alec Baldwin and Vanessa Bayer. It is safe to say that through this position Colin gained recognition among the audience, and significantly boosted his net worth.
In 2006 he began working on ‘‘Kappa Mikey’’, but the mentioned the parody of a Japanese anime attracted mediocre reviews. In 2011 he worked on ‘‘Paul Rudd Pitches Harvey Weinstein’’, then in 2013 wrote an episode of ‘‘Funny as Hell’’, the series which features raw comedy from some of the biggest contemporary comedy stars. In 2014, he wrote an episode of the popular talk-show ‘‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’’, the episode featuring Jason Sudeikis and Aubrey Plaza.
Besides being a writer, Jost is also an actor, and has had a few roles, importantly acting in 92 episodes of ‘‘Saturday Night Live’’. In 2015, he portrayed officer Greg in ‘‘Staten Island Summer’’, a comedy which follows the story of two friends, Danny and Frank who spend their summer after high school working as life guards, while trying to figure out their lives. In the next year, Jost portrayed Paul in ‘‘How to Be Single’’, working alongside actors such as Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson and Leslie Mann. To conclude, he has had three acting gigs.
When it comes to his private life, Jost is reportedly in a relationship with the actress Scarlett Johanson. He is active on social media such as Twitter and Instagram, and is currently followed by 226,000 people on the former and 324,000 on the latter.
