SNL's Colin Jost to Headline Comedy Works This Weekend

Colin Jost is a head writer at Saturday Night Live and a touring stand-up comedian. He will appear this weekend, August 4 & 5, at Comedy Works Downtown in Larimer Square.

He's appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, and most recently in the hit comedy film How to Be Single.

Jost returns for his fourth season of SNL as co-anchor of "Weekend Update," alongside fellow cast member Michael Che. Following the tradition of former head writers Tina Fey and Seth Meyers, Jost joined "Weekend Update" in 2014 having been a writer at SNL since 2005 and served as co-head writer for three of those years.

He has won three Writers Guild Awards, a Peabody Award and has been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards for his writing on SNL. Jost also wrote and starred in the Paramount/Netflix film, Staten Island Summer, based on his days as a lifeguard growing up in New York. Che and co-anchor Colin Jost also hosted special editions of "Weekend Update" on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions.

For more information, visit www.comedyworks.com.