Colin Jost tries to sell his Staten Island ferry in SNL sketch after calling vessel his dumbest purchase ever

Colin Jost pleaded for somebody to buy his decommissioned Staten Island ferry during a rare sketch appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”During the May 3 episode, host Quinta Brunson and longtime castmember Mikey Day portrayed two angry drivers who insulted each other using bizarre hand gestures through closed car windows on a ferry.The 42-year-old “Weekend Update” co-anchor made a surprise cameo near the end of the nearly 3-and-a-half-minute clip and begged the characters to buy the retired ferry he purchased with SNL alum Pete Davidson in 2022.“Hey, you said you love ferries?” Jost, who was playing himself, shouted with his hands pressed against the window.“If you love ferries, would you like to buy one?”“Oh my God, is that Colin Jost?” Chloe Fineman’s character, who played Day’s daughter, asked.“That’s Colin Jost,” Day replied.

“We’re good, man, thanks.”“Please buy it,” Jost desperately pleaded before he pretended to be his business partner.“Hey, hey, wait – hey, I’m Pete Davidson.Hi!” Jost quipped.Jost and Davidson bought the retired orange Staten Island ferry for $280,000 at auction in 2022 while they were allegedly “very stoned.”“It is absolutely the dumbest and least thought-through purchase I’ve ever made in my life,” Jost told People in September.

“The way I justified it is for the amount of money we were putting into buying it, on just a basic square-footage level, is if you found the right place for it to be, you were essentially buying a building on its side that’s 65,000 square feet.So around New York, that is a very good price per square foot.”The duo — in a partnership with architect and developer Ron Castellano and comedy club owner Paul Italia — planned to turn the ferry into a $34 million entertainment venue.The jokesters were able to rent out the vessel for a “Steamboat Willie” horror film and it was the location for a Tommy Hilfiger fashion show in September 2024.“I never ...