Colin Jost reveals how Scarlett Johansson really feels about his Ferry purchase

Colin Jost says his wife, Scarlett Johansson, backs his decision to co-own a Staten Island Ferry, but she's not exactly jumping aboard. 

The SNL star, 44, spoke to People on the ferry, which he bought in 2022 with friend and former SNL castmate Pete Davidson, 32, to turn it into a live entertainment venue.

Asked what Johansson, 41, thinks of the project, Jost joked, "She's very supportive from a distance. I mean, I wouldn't say she's an active investor." 

He also imagined her warming up to it someday. "She would love to retire on this ferry, you know? If that's what puts her over the edge, I'm hopeful."

Jost, Davidson and comedy club owner Paul Italia bought the decommissioned John F. Kennedy ferry at auction for $280,000 in January 2022. Davidson later said they had no idea nobody else would bid. Jost has called it "the dumbest and least thought-through purchase" he ever made.

Still, the ferry is now in use. It hosted a Tommy Hilfiger fashion show in 2024 and a Snapple comedy night with Jost and Davidson on September 17. 

The project has taught Jost a lot about boats. "Pretty much anything that's a regular job, there's a maritime version of it, which I did not know."

Jost and Johansson met in 2006, when she hosted SNL during his first year as a writer. They sparked dating rumours in 2017, got engaged in 2019 and married in October 2020.