Colin Jost Parents: Who Are Daniel A. Jost And Kerry Kelly?

Colin Kelly Jost is an American comedian, actor, and writer.

Colin has been a writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) since 2005 and Weekend Update co-anchor since 2014.

Colin also served as one of the show’s co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show’s head writers in 2017 alongside Michael Che.

Colin was born and raised in New York City in the Grymes Hill neighborhood of Staten Island on June 29, 1982 to his mother, Kerry J. Kelly and his father Daniel A. Jost.

Colin’s mother Kerry Kelly was the chief medical officer for the New York City Fire Department, and his father, Daniel A. Jost, is a former teacher at Staten Island Technical High School.

Colin attended Harvard University, majoring in history and literature, with a focus on Russian literature and British literature, and wrote his senior thesis on Vladimir Nabokov.

Colin graduated cum laude from Harvard in 2004.

While at Harvard, Colin was president of the Harvard Lampoon and he also won $5,250 on a college edition of Weakest Link, but said he did not think he deserved to win.

After graduation, Colin worked as a reporter and copy editor for the Staten Island Advance.

Colin was then hired as a writer for a short-lived Nickelodeon animated show, Kappa Mikey.

After he left that job, he sent in a writing packet to NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which gave him a writing position in 2005.