A very punchable face by colin jost7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Or, he adds, for people to "just get another chance to laugh at me." "Part of writing this book was being excited to talk about parts of my life and weird episodes in my life that I thought that would be entertaining for people," he says. Jost's new memoir, A Very Punchable Face, describes his experiences growing up in a middle-class household on Staten Island. ![]() When I get hurt or hit on camera - like when Cecily throws drinks in my face or throws up red wine on me - the audience really loves it." "Some people look at me and have sort of a visceral, angry reaction ," he says. But all that changed when he began working on-air in 2014 as the co-anchor of the show's "Weekend Update." "When you're not on camera or on television, you don't really consider what you look like," he says. When he joined SNL as a writer in 2005, he worked off-camera - and didn't have to think about his looks. Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost knows there's something about his clean-cut image that rubs some people the wrong way. ![]() "It's a world that I love so much," he says of the show. Colin Jost, here in 2018, first joined Saturday Night Live as a writer 15 years ago. ![]()
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