Colin Jost

I'm a 12-handicap.

It doesn't get better than making people laugh and also making sure people don't go hungry.

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.

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.

When you contribute to food banks or give money that goes to having meals delivered, you're meeting the most basic need. It's such a direct way to help.

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

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

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I never thought about 'being' in comedy when I grew up, because I didn't know it was a real job. But looking back, it's the only thing I ever really cared about.

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.

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.

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.

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

Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.

I honestly think that Donald Trump's only adviser is his doorman.