Pete Davidson reunites with Saturday Night Live co-star Colin Jost for new comedy movie Worst Man

Saturday Night Live viewers thought Colin Jost took up guitar lessons during quarantine when the instrument unintentionally guest-starred on the first at-home Weekend Update. But in an interview with The New York Times published today (July 8), he blamed his fiancée Scarlett Johansson for the fluke."Scarlett had that guitar forever and it was in the quarantine," Jost said during the interview.

Colin Jost set the record straight about a well-placed prop that snuck into the background of a Saturday Night Live episode in April.The comedian, 38, got a handful of negative comments about a very visible guitar that was left on his couch during his “Weekend Update” segment on the April 11 episode of the variety show, which was filmed from home during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Two months later, he claimed fiancée Scarlett Johansson was the culprit.

Colin Jost lifts his surfboard over his head while heading back to his car after a surf session on Saturday (June 27) in the Hamptons, N.Y.

When “The Blues Brothers” landed in theaters 40 years ago this week, it was something of a novelty – the first feature film based on characters from “Saturday Night Live,” which had, at that point, only been on the air for five years. And though it was a hit, no one would try again for 12 years, with “Wayne’s World,” after which the floodgates opened.

'Saturday Night Live' pals Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are set to appear on the big screen together in wedding comedy 'Worst Man'. The comedy duo will be back together for the upcoming flick from Universal Pictures, which was pitched by Colin - who is engaged to Scarlett Johansson - and Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman.

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson are set to star in the upcoming movie comedy Worst Man.The Saturday Night Live costars are taking their acting skills to the big screen, Variety reported on Wednesday, June 17. The duo are teaming up to headline the Universal Pictures wedding comedy, based on an idea pitched by Jost, 37, Matthew Bass and Theodore Bressman.The film focuses on an engaged couple in the weeks before their wedding and the family drama that comes with the impending nuptials.

Saturday Night Live stars Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are teaming up on a big-screen venture. The duo will star in wedding comedy Worst Man, which follows a soon-to-be-married couple and the family dramatics that ensue just weeks before the wedding.

Colin Jost and Pete Davidson are teaming up on screen.

Also Read: Pete Davidson Wanted 'King of Staten Island' to Be 'Love Letter to His Mom,' Judd Appatow SaysDavidson’s film career has started taking off in recent years, most recently starring in Universal’s “The King of Staten Island,” which he co-wrote with director Judd Apatow, as well as the coming of age comedy “Big Time Adolescence.” Jost last appeared in 2016’s romantic comedy “How to Be Single.”SNL creator Lorne Michaels will produce “Worst Man,” with Universal’s President of Production

Pete Davidson has paid tribute to his dad in a world that now has a greater appreciation for first responders.

Pete Davidson is giving back to a cause that's close to his heart.

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineIt didn’t take much convincing to get Bill Burr to join the cast of “The King of Staten Island,” a comedy from Judd Apatow that’s loosely based on Pete Davidson’s upbringing in New York’s least glamorous borough.

Judd Apatow has said working with Lena Dunham on Girls helped him collaborate with Pete Davidson on a new film about his issues following the loss of his father.

NEW YORK -- The first time Pete Davidson performed stand-up, he was 16. It was in front of a handful of people at a place called the Looney Bin Comedy Club in Staten Island.

Pete Davidson’s new film, The King Of Staten Island, helped him come to terms with the death of his firefighter father.The actor, who lost his dad in the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City in 2001, portrays an aspiring tattoo artist, struggling to process the death of his father 17 years prior in the comedy he co-wrote.“I really wanted this to be cleansing for me,” the Saturday Night Live regular tells CBS This Morning.

borrows a lot of heavy realities from the “Saturday Night Live” star’s own life: his character Scott lost his firefighter father at age 7; he still lives on Staten Island with his mom; and he makes more brow-raising choices than Kanye.And, also like the real-life Davidson, there is nary a moment where Scott isn’t the most likable person on the damn planet.That’s director Judd Apatow’s signature move: taking a talent we love — Davidson, Steve Carell, Amy Schumer, tenderizing them with a cinematic

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticScott Carlin (Pete Davidson), the loser hero of “The King of Staten Island,” is a 24-year-old trash-talking punk stoner who lives with his mother in Staten Island and has no plans whatsoever — for a career, a life, or the next five minutes. He’s a slacker, a lout, and a self-pitying anger-management case who has never gotten over the death of his firefighter father 17 years ago.