Jost & Davidson's Staten Island Ferry: Epic Plans

0:00On April 28, Colin Jost just cleared the air on that Staten Island ferry he snagged with Pete Davidson back in 2022. They dropped $280,100 at a New York auction for the decommissioned John F. Kennedy, a 200. 77-foot beast that shuttled folks between Manhattan and Staten Island for decades. Jost hit the smartless podcast to say reports calling it a cash sink are way off base. Both Staten Island kids at heart, Jost even wrote that exact ferry as a teen to reach his high school on the upper east side, catching the 7 a.m. run. They bought it with comedy club owner Paul Italia, and while they've joked about the price tag ballooning to millions, hot-stressed, it's no wild. Impulse by. Fans and media jumped on the story hard with headlines dubbing it a fiasco and even questioning if they were sober at the auction. Jost clad back on Instagram, fully straight edged and hyped to flip the script. Davidson roasted a New York Times piece during his SNL comeback, blaming the ferry for gigs in Saudi Arabia. Now they're

1:02eyeing big plans, turn the 70,000 square feet into an event space or entertainment spot, like a floating waterfront building in Manhattan. Davidson spilled on the tonight show about movie theaters, a hotel, shopping kiosks across four floors, but docking impermits make it a grind. They're asking for patience after just two years. Word is, in two years, you'll be lining up to board this thing, proving all the skeptics wrong as Jost and Davidson steer it toward something epic. Pop culture, powered by AI. This is entertainment and celebrity news today. I'm Corey with The Story.