Colin Jost

“Staten Island is segregated, but it's also - I don't know. It's, like, it's not - it's not unprogressive.”

“Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.”

“I never came out to the Hamptons when I was younger - it was always a fancy and exotic place.”

“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.”

“I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.”

“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.”

“Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.”

“When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.”

“The first joke I ever told on stage was a golf joke.”

“Initially, I think I was eager to get off Staten Island and go away for school, that kind of thing. Then what you do maybe 10 years after that, you start maybe appreciating all the great things about the place you grew up. You can go back and enjoy it because you don't have that angst or sense of struggle to get away anymore.”

“When I was 10, I went to the Junior Olympics for the 50-meter and 100-meter breaststroke.”

“We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.”

“It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.”

“Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I love buffalo wings and eat them at least three times a week.”

“I'm really excited about Jordan Spieth. Like a great in any sport, when the moment is the biggest, he performs his best.”