-You know our first guest
tonight from his work on "Saturday Night Live," where
he serves as a head writer, as well as co-anchor
of "Weekend Update." He stars in
"Tom & Jerry: The Movie," which premieres in theaters
and on HBO Max on Friday. Please welcome back to the show
our very good friend Colin Jost. How are you, buddy? -Great. How are you?
-Good. It's so wonderful to see you. I cannot believe --
-I started waving -- When you introduced Raghav,
I started waving. Just I was like, "Maybe he thinks I'm pretty good
at drumming." I was like,
"See where this goes." -Yeah, a lot of people have said
you're a 16-year-old drummer who's taken the world by storm. -Yeah. I was like,
"Well, I mean, I'll take it." I know I read as late teens,
but... -You guys are doing
your fifth show in a row. I believe your last run
was six shows in a row. That is a very punishing
schedule. Obviously, a lot of it
is necessitated by the times
we're living through, but are you --
you must be exhausted. -Yeah, mentally,
I think a lot of us are hitting a breaking point. But it's very hard --
it's extremely hard to complain when you work at a comedy show. Be like, "We worked
five weeks in a row!" You know, to any --
You understand, but to any sort of, you know,
normal functioning human, they're like, "Uh-huh." You know,
you can't, like, complain. With my parents, I'm like,
"Yeah, Mom, you know, you can't believe I'm working
five weeks in a row." And she's like, "Yeah, I worked
just in, like, hospitals for like six years straight
without a week off. So, yeah, no,
that must be tough." You're like, "Yeah,
okay, that's harder." -That does make sense, 'cause
I've been trying to get people to bang pots and pans
at the end of each "SNL" just to, like, reward you guys. -And it hasn't taken off
in the same way? -No, nobody wants to engage
that, but I will say -- -I think if you were
thinking of it as booing and they're booing along, you
might get some people to join. Certain weeks, you might
get some people to join in. -Some people said
they would like to come out on their balconies and just scream how
it was better in the '70s. -[ Laughs ]
Yeah, that's right. They didn't do enough
with the host. Cast is great.
Writers are terrible. They just yell that. -But, I mean,
a very real cost of this -- and obviously, again, this is the right choice
based on safety -- but, you know, whether the "SNL"
was good or bad, the nicest part of the way
the week was structured is at the end of the show,
you went out with everybody. And it could either
lift your mood or, if your mood was great,
it would elevate it. So how weird is it
when the shows are over that everybody
just kind of dissipates? -It's very strange. I mean, the first part is,
there's no energy backstage. So when you get off, if you
felt like things went great or you felt they went horribly,
either way, there's nothing. You walk into, like,
a wall of silence. Normally, you'd see,
you know, whatever. Adam Levine's there, and he's
like, "Hey, what's up, man? Good job." Or, you know, there's a llama and Abraham Lincoln
from the costume before. And, you know,
the Abraham Lincoln's, like, got a couple notes
for you -- "Maybe hold your head this way," or whatever, you know,
things like that. You're getting energy. And this is -- You have no -- You have nothing.
And then there's no -- Normally, you would
sort of decompress with your friends
after the show, you know, like, your fellow
castmates, the writers. You'd talk about
how things went. And then you're operating
in this weird vacuum and you have none of the release and none of the social part
of the show. And there's no -- It must be
so weird to start this year, like, new people that started,
because there's no, like, going out for a drink
after the table read and learning about why things
aren't getting in the show or not getting in the show. Everyone's living
in their own weird vacuum. And when you see people
with masks on, you never want to talk
to anyone with a mask on. You're just like,
"Yeah, alright, whatever." It feels like you're greeting
someone in a hospital. -It's so true about new people, because I remember
when I started, one of my first reactions was, "Huh, so there's no cocaine
anymore." And now for them, it must be,
"So there's not even beer!" -Yeah, you're allowed
one soft drink after the show. But you really do. Like, truly, like,
we'll have a drink -- We'll have, like,
one beer in a hallway where you're shouting down the
hallway to a fellow cast member. And that's, like, the closest
we've had to a party. -Sounds great. -So this is the year
to sign up, guys! If you're looking to join,
sign up. I'm really selling it. And it's a dream job. Everyone's on the verge
of a mental breakdown, and you can't drink anymore
at work. Sorry. -We did --
You know, we obviously -- To be in the building, you know,
you and I get tested every day. And we took advantage of that. I'm happy to say
that two weeks ago, after my show,
I just hung out in my office, and then you came down
to my office, and we got super hammered and
watched YouTube videos together. -Yeah, it was pretty fun.
You ordered us cheeseburgers. And we ate cheeseburgers on
your desk like it was a table. -Yep. -Great. One of the greatest
nights out of my life. -Yeah. That's the new Rainbow Room.
-Oh, yeah. -The new Rainbow Room
is office burgers and YouTube. And then we both --
At the end of the night, we both spun around
and we went, "New York City!" -I mean, that was probably
my wildest night out in New York in the last six months. -100%. -And I didn't leave
the building. -Yeah.
You did -- Since the last time you were
on the show -- obviously, as established, I've seen you --
you did get married. "Jost married."
And this is -- For people who couldn't tell
by Colin's gold chain, he is from Staten Island. [ Both laugh ] -That's where we did the wedding
and the reception. Cans are real. My brother did
some great Photoshop work. I know it looks real,
but they didn't actually tie a bunch of 100-foot-long cans on the back of
the Staten Island Ferry. I mean, they probably -- Someone
would have used it as an excuse to get bodies in the can
that they needed to get rid of. Someone I grew up with would
have put bodies in the cans and been like, "Oh." Yeah, it's also very strange
to get married, because part of marriage is,
obviously, sort of entering society
as a couple, you know. That's, like, the traditional
idea of marriage. So instead, it's like,
just, again, everything happening
in a vacuum, and some of our closest friends
we haven't seen in a year, you know, couldn't come
to the wedding. And we actually went through -- We got engaged and then
immediately went to London to film -- I went to film
"Tom & Jerry," and Scarlett went to film
"Black Widow." We'll see which one ends up
being the bigger hit. [ Both laugh ] The jury's out! -Colin, Colin,
do not put money on this. -[ Laughs ] -We left -- We got engaged,
then basically fled town, so I didn't see anyone
that summer. Then I went right back into
"SNL," and then COVID hit. So there's been basically
these two years that have been a huge moment
in our lives where we haven't seen
most of our friends. -Wait, am I finding out now
for the first time that Tom and Jerry
are also British actors who were doing American accents
this whole time? -Yes.
That's the big scoop. Yeah. We just had Regé on,
and hopefully we'll see, fingers crossed, Tom and Jerry
join Nick Jonas this week.
The whole 'We both went to London - me to film Tom and Jerry and her Black Widow' reminds me how completely different these two really are and why I love them so much.
The end of this interview and the Mayor Pete joke interruptions had me laughing so hard.
The next segment with Andy’s texts is GOLD!!!
this was the best seth show in a few months
:)