Ill-advised boat purchases have launched countless domestic disputes but rarely on the scale of the one betweenColin JostandScarlett Johansson.
This has now become a telethon for ‘Support the Staten Island ferry.'"
Jost insisted that his investment would soon prove its value.
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson.Credit: Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty
“It is going to put food on our table,finally.
Johansson had other plans.
Handling the scrap metal?”
Colin Jost on his Staten Island ferryboat.Gilbert Flores/getty
HostJenna Bush Hagerexpressed a logistical concern.
“Can the ferry be taken away from the dock?”
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“Could it be let loose to just drift?
100 percent,” Jost confirmed.
“It’s actually one of the things our insurers are worried about.”
Hager declared Johansson the winner of the debate after this revelation.
“We’ll see,” Jost said scornfully.
“You’ll all see!”
Jost and his formerSNLcastmatePete Davidsonfirstreflected on their maritime purchase on “Weekend Update"in January 2022.
“We bought a ferry, the windowless van of the sea,” Davidson joked.
“We’re boat people now, Colin.”
Jost sarcastically added, “Yes, it’s very exciting.
We thought the whole thing through.”
“There will be a concert venue.
There will be a movie theater, upstairs like, sort of, restaurant area.
And then there’s hotels in it.
So we’ll have a couple of those.
And then in the winter tug it to Miami.”
Davidson indicated that the ship wouldn’t set sail for a few years, though.
“We just got all the plans built,” the comedian said.
“We had them do one of those computer-generated, you know, show-you-what-it-could-be punch in of thing.
