I truly cannot get over the fact that we’re still learning the lore behind that time Colin Jost and Pete Davidson bought a Staten Island Ferry. Every time it comes up, it’s entertaining, and every time it comes up, I feel like I learn something new that makes me laugh. This time, the Weekend Update host revealed the one-word response Scarlett Johansson had to the purchase he made.
So, this all came up again because Sean Hayes asked Jost to tell the story about the ferry on the Smartless podcast. The Saturday Night Live star explained that this ferry they bought was literally the one he’d ride to high school, and he decided to text Pete Davidson to see if they should buy it. Explaining that Davidson is “the wrong person to text when you have an idea like this,” the comedian went on to recall the text he sent his dad about the purchase and the reaction the Avengers actress had to it, too, saying:
