Colin Jost famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, That's how it is. I never thought that was the exception.
-- Colin Jost

#Mom #My Family #Breadwinner
Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who is 17, has become the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. So a Pakistani teenager literally can change the world, while American teenagers literally can't even.
-- Colin Jost

#Teenager #Winning #World
There are some people who are way too sensitive about things. If you're not using the vocabulary that's new that they've helped define, then you're not on their team, even though you want to be. And at the same time, the fact that our president Donald Trump said on record, "You could just grab women by the pussy," and a lot of people in America were like, "Yeah, it's fine, that's something that's said..." There are people that are not sensitive or aware enough about other people and what that means.
-- Colin Jost

#Team #Mean #People
Donald Trump had a hit TV show on NBC for 14 years! He was covered by every major newspaper for 30 years. The idea that any one person humanized... He's been the most human figure for decades. The reason he won is because he knows how to use the media and he's a great communicator, whether you agree with the message or not.
-- Colin Jost

#Reason #Agree
Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"
-- Colin Jost

#Hate #People #Firsts
On the road, when I do stand-up, people would always say, "What do you think about Donald Trump?" If you said, "He's crazy," they'd be like, "Yeah, he's crazy." But if you said, "I don't know - he seems interesting," they would be like, "That's really what I think."
-- Colin Jost

#Crazy #Thinking #People

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Okay, using the dreaded middle name is not the best way to forge a bond.
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
There was less than Iâ€™d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled â€˜DEAD SPIDERS.â€™ As if I hadnâ€™t always known it was there. As if I wouldnâ€™t want to look at dead spiders.
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still eat heartily with the rest of my family. I don't force them to follow my diet.

Colin Jost famous quotes

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