Colin Jost says he was 'actually stone-cold sober' when buying ferry with Pete Davidson
"Saturday Night Live" comedian Colin Jost has revealed that, contrary to reports, he was not stoned when he purchased a 277-foot boat with Pete Davidson.
"Is it worse that I was actually stone-cold sober when we bought the ferry?" he joked on Instagram Wednesday alongside a photo of a Page Six headline.
The headline read "Pete Davidson and Colin Jost were 'very stoned' when they bought Staten Island ferry," and was based on a statement Davidson made in a red carpet interview with Entertainment Tonight.
Jost also poked fun at the situation, writing, "We’re excited to prove the non-believers wrong. You’re going to be BEGGING to get on this ferry in two years. Mark my words."
Jost and Davidson first purchased the decommissioned Staten Island Ferry boat for $280,100 with plans to turn it into New York's hottest club.
"UNRELATED I’m going on a Ferry Money Tour this week and next week. Stand-up in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Minneapolis, Madison and Chicago with some very special guests," he added.
Jost seems to have other plans for affording his new boat, too. "I do my own graphic design if you want me to take your brand to new heights I can get you millons," he wrote near the end of his post alongside a particularly uninspired image of the ferry overlaid with bright-colored tour locations.
Davidson seems to be dealing with the cost of the massive floater in a different way. "Hopefully it turns into a Transformer" and leaves "so I can stop paying for it!" he quipped on the red carpet of "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts."
The pair teamed up with comedy club owner Paul Italia on the winning bid for the John F. Kennedy, an 84-meter vessel that shuttled commuters between the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Staten Island from 1965 until it was taken out of service last August.
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"The Staten Island Ferry is definitely something iconic," Italia, a real estate investor and co-owner of the restaurant and comedy club The Stand, said last year. "We wanted to figure out a way to save it and to do something special with it."
Italia also said transforming the 2,109-ton ferry into an entertainment venue will cost millions of dollars and won't happen anytime soon.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Colin Jost says he bought ferry with Pete Davidson 'stone-cold sober'
