Overview
- In a preview for the May 4 SmartLess episode, Colin Jost says he told Scarlett Johansson “We own a ferry,” and she replied “We?,” signaling her skepticism.
- Jost outlines fresh ideas for the decommissioned Staten Island vessel, floating a party venue or a swim club with an entertainment space, plus a winter trip to Miami.
- He adds that the project should be accessible to regular New Yorkers rather than a private members club and repeats his refrain that “It’s going to be fine.”
- Jost and Pete Davidson bought the 277‑foot, roughly 70,000‑square‑foot ferry at a January 2022 auction for $280,100 with partners Paul Italia and Ron Castellano, and they have joked about calling it Titanic 2.
- Page Six reports the group has been losing money and running into obstacles, and a 2023 dispute lingers over whether the purchase was made “very stoned,” as Davidson claimed, or “stone‑cold sober,” as Jost said.