Colin Jost serves as a head writer for “Saturday Night Live.” He started writing for SNL in 2005 and has been co-anchor of “Weekend Update” since 2014. Jost co-hosted the special editions of "Weekend Update" that aired on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic National Conventions as well as the primetime "Weekend Update Summer Edition" in 2017. In addition to his work at SNL, Jost wrote and starred in the Paramount/Netflix film "Staten Island Summer", based on his days as a lifeguard growing up in New York. Jost has won four Writers Guild Awards, a Peabody Award, and has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for his writing on SNL. He also wrote a memoir titled "A Very Punchable Face," which was published by Crown in July 2020.