Colin Jost Was Not Stoned When He and Pete Davidson Bought $280K Ferry
Colin Jost and his former "SNL" costar Pete Davidson co-own a decommissioned Staten Island ferry.
Davidson recently said that they were "very stoned" when they made the purchase last year.
However, in an Instagram post, Jost said that he "was actually stone-cold sober" at the time.
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Colin Jost has set the record straight about his state of mind when he purchased a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry with his former "Saturday Night Live" costar Pete Davidson.
The 40-year-old comedian has debunked the idea that he and Davidson were "very stoned" when they bought the boat, as Davidson recently claimed.
"I have no idea what's going on with that thing," Davidson told Entertainment Tonight's Will Marfuggi at the New York premiere of "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" earlier this month. "Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry. And we're figuring it out."
However, according to Jost, that wasn't the case.
"Is it worse that I was actually stone-cold sober when we bought the ferry?" Jost wrote on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a headline citing Davidson's defense of their extravagant purchase.
Jost went on to suggest that the pair could have the ferry up and running by 2025.
" We're excited to prove the non-believers wrong. You're going to be BEGGING to get on this ferry in two years. Mark my words," he wrote.
Back in January 2022, Insider reported that the two Staten Island natives won the John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned Staten Island ferry, at an auction. They paid $280,100 for it.
The boat was decommissioned due to "mechanical issues" and was left in "poor condition," a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services told the New York Post at the time.
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Initially, the duo's real-estate broker, Paul Italia, told the Post that Jost and Davidson planned to turn the boat into "a live entertainment-event space."
Davidson told People shortly after the purchase that he had lots of exciting plans.
"There is going to be a bar, there is going to be a nice restaurant and… the lower level, the big space is going to be an entertainment space and we're going to dock it in the city," he said.
"Or it could all go to shit and I'll be doing lots and lots of gigs next year," he added.
Based on the photos from the auction, which opened at $125,000, the boat will need substantial work before it's ready to welcome guests onboard.
Source: Insider
