Top 22 Colin Jost Quotes

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I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times

I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times a week.
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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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Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.
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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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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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I commuted an hour and a half each way to high school in N.Y.C. I took a bus, a ferry, then a subway.
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I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.
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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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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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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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I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.
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It’s not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.
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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 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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I’ve played at the Comedy Studio. I never did as an undergrad, but I have in recent years, whenever I’ve gone back to anything at Harvard, I’ve tried to go there and do some sets.
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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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I’m a 12-handicap.
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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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When you’re around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that’s just naturally – if you want to do it – it’s going to make you better.
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The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.
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I’m really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.
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