Colin Jost Thought His Mom Turned 21 Every Year on Her Birthday

Colin Jost reacts to reviews for his scripted podcast Trust Fall with Wanda Sykes, reveals how he believed his mom turned the same age every year on her birthday and shares a story about a family member who recently passed.
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[@jakedahms8856]

I love Colin and Seth together, they are very similar but also kind of their own brands of humor and they blend beautifully

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Seth, the former SNL Head Writer, and Colin, the current SNL co-Head Writer (with Che), talking is very interesting...

[@cosmonot47]

Yeah, and theyre wearing nearly identical outfits. Now,thats what i call blending.

[@abaigealduda2756]

Hm. Yes, good point!

[@TheBasher-_-]

Yes Colin is funny and good at his job. Seth is not. Very very diffrent

[@kstepko]

My mother did this for years - and she taught elementary school, so was always believed, as little kids think that 21 sounds very old. Once I turned 21, she upped it to 30.

[@dianep6791]

😂😂😂

[@robkoper841]

Same. So it's not just my mom. We would even put "Happy 21st 21st!" on her 42nd birthday, and so on.

[@Shasha-yg1mm]

My daughter has claimed to be 21 for a good 19 years. She always claimed she would stop being 21 when she turned 40. She will be 40 on Dec 30th. I mentioned that to her and she immediately quipped that she will now turn 22. Her son is 22.

[@sjwhite54]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KrakenIsland64]

The audience totally missed "First the titanic, now the submarine", don't worry Colin, I laughed.

[@amonrodriguez3518]

It was so fast lol that’s what made me wanna read the comments. When he started it, I was like damn, played out ending, but then he came back with that and I was like yooooooo fucking rolling

[@ttf4now]

Colin, it’s an easy mistake. My mom was “29” for a long, long time. I was really good in math but I believed her until I was about 10.

[@danisbookshelf3167]

My younger brother had a second grade teacher who always answered that she was turning 29, and he was so confused as to how that was possible when she looked older than our parents 😂

[@styrpak1]

My mom was alway 29 too. 😊

[@hollithomas899]

Alternatively I told everyone and anyone who would listen my moms full name and date of birth every year on her birthday.

[@karenthompson8038]

Oh good so it’s not just my mom

[@A.Briggs628]

For some reason, my mom was always 39! Every single freakin year!! One year, I handed her a bar of soap and told her to put it in her mouth! She says, Are you crazy? What for? I said, for lying.. you do it to us..Now it’s your turn, liar! 😂 Guess who got the soap! 🤷‍♀️😝😂

[@Copperyfoxx]

To anyone that enjoys Colin and haven’t read or listened to his book - I recently listened to his audiobook and it was excellent. Funny, interesting, sweet. I already liked him but I like him even more now ❤

[@RobinaB530]

I read his book and enjoyed it very much.

[@Birdsong-Annalee]

I love that Colin's son is riding a bike at age 2. What a precocious child!

[@kevinhartung8429]

I always love when someone from SNL is a guest as we know we're definitely in for some laughs. My faves are ones that Seth actually worked with.

[@LidiaScherArt]

What a funny interview while having my lunch! I enjoyed it enormously. Colin's demeanor, coupled with his baby face is priceless!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

He uses his wife's skin care line (she admitted it on a recent Today Show interview while promoting it)...

[@timemerchant8463]

Overall: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Performance: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Story: ⭐⭐

[@heyscot]

Such a great interview between two frickin' awesome comics.

[@user-vn6mb8im8w]

The picture of the "kid" made ME crack up!

[@lsmith8684]

Great interview!!!!

[@denisedishong3927]

My mom did the same thing. I didn’t know how old she really was until I was in my thirties. 😂

[@sjwhite54]

Omg. You two are HILARIOUS! Thanks for the laughs! 🤣

[@kelleydavis100]

I just love Colin!! Absolutely hysterical!

[@xzonia1]

Love Colin Jost. Glad to hear he's got other stuff going on that's working well. Would watch, but I have no clue where to find his podcast. A link to it would've been super nice of you, Seth. (Hoping people understand this is a joke to give Seth a hard time and I'm not being serious.) - Love from a jackal

[@A.Briggs628]

I LOVE Colin Jost, and Seth Meyers!! ❤😊

[@mikewhite4560]

Thanks for sharing 😅

[@rchaffin5018]

Great interview.... love it!!!

[@ChatwinATC]

I *love* when Seth has one of his snl buddies on, you KNOW it's going to be hilarious.

[@bubblesezblonde]

You had me at Wanda~!!!!

[@davideboos]

No wonder Scarlett loves him. 😉

[@pattiwhite9575]

What a sweet boy.

[@mikewhite4560]

You've Met Colin? 😅

[@pattiwhite9575]

Nooo@@mikewhite4560

[@fosterfuchs]

When I'm at work, I don't literally laugh out loud. I figuratively laugh out loud.

[@annestewart5741]

My folks are perpetually 35 in my head. I don't know why, lol. A coworker & I were just talking about this phenomenon last weekend & she thinks of her parents as always being a certain age also & it's not from our parents saying they're younger either. Weird, I know! Condolences, Colin. I'm so thankful you & your grandma got to have each other as long as you did. One of my great-grandmas (from NY) was 108 when she passed. She lived in 3 centuries! (1898-2006) She was one of the strongest people I've ever known. She lost her husband (my great-grandpa) & 2 of her brothers & their best friend on their fishing boat in the "Long Island Express" - the Great New England Hurricane of 1938. So she had 4 young boys to raise through the Great Depression & WWII. I'm so thankful I got to have so many grandparents & great-grandparents for so long in my life & know them well. Thinking of you both, Colin & Seth, & your families & lifting up all of you. Thank you for helping us through the tough times, too! Take good care.

[@tracydavis7148]

My grandma did the same thing with her age too. When she passed away the nurse asked us grandkids how old she was and none of us knew lol

[@jpdenboer4365]

Love the respect to the child. And LOVE the lizard 😍

[@wncwaterfalls]

Impressive kid, 2 years old and no training wheels!

[@jpdenboer4365]

@@wncwaterfalls 😂😂

[@karenthompson8038]

Grandma made of steel! And that look on your face Colin, it is hilarious on the carpet and I get it. I would see Jesus through all those flashes.

[@nibblit]

Very sweet!

[@theglitch_713]

Colin is the fuckin BEST! 😂

[@mikewhite4560]

A RELATIVE? 😅

[@theglitch_713]

@@mikewhite4560 nah just a fan

[@mikewhite4560]

SNL Day 1. Colin Good. Norm the BEST....

[@wanderingseth]

"Everything I do that gets good reviews... I'm surprised." His ego is the anti-Kanye.

[@Nan-59]

Colin & Seth! What’s better?!!❤❤❤

[@jdropje8]

Oh my gosh, my mom told me the same lie! I believed her until my older sister turned 21!!!!

[@eromitlabhitw]

Makes me remember my grandma turning 19 every year. She had like fifty-something 19th birthdays.

[@Mariethechaotic]

3:24 omg, Colin, my mom did the same thing, same age! Eventually she switched to 32 when it got *too* weird😂

[@amonrodriguez3518]

That was 100 af wtf lol the ending probably went over so many heads it happened so fast man that was amazing.!

[@DavidWinstead]

I would love to see these two guys do a podcast or any other show together, it would be 100% non-stop laughs for me!

[@puspakartika2253]

Actually Seth and his brother have their own podcast: Family Trips with Meyers Brothers, and Colin was in it earlier

[@DavidWinstead]

That's awesome, I will check that out for sure... Thanks for letting me know!@@puspakartika2253

[@baylinkdashyt]

I'm hoping that maybe we can get the two of them for election night, next year. Not to diss Che...

[@brkaz5864]

Adore Colin Jost !

[@British_Rogue]

My dad was 37 for five years in a row. The thing is, he genuinely forgot his age.

[@mycollegeshirt]

you might wanna check up on your dad man

[@fosterfuchs]

I'm about to turn 55. It's not that I forget how old I am, but my exact age really doesn't matter. I sometimes have to remind myself whether I'm 53, 54, or 55.

[@kandi81]

I did something like that too. Somewhere between 35 & 36 I aged myself a year & skipped straight from 35 to 37. I was born in 81 & literally new years eve 2020 I suddenly went "wait it's gonna be 2021, ends in 1, I'm not actually 40 for a few more months". I ended up celebrating my 40th birthday 2 yrs in a row. Oops.

[@cobrasys]

That's one of the most "dad" things I've ever heard.

[@EdwoodCA]

I dunno... hitting 40 changes your insurance premiums... how does a dad not gripe about something like that? :D

[@carschmn]

My mom turns 29 every birthday 😂 3:34

[@epichaiku]

In my head, when I think of who the funniest guest of all time is, I always immediately think Samburg followed very closely by Hader... and yet I've rewatched Colin's interviews the most because I always have to back it up multiple times from laughing over everything. Jost apparently wins... or Samburg needs to step it up. Either way, I love it!

[@mnchls]

at this point, Jost should come out as pro-Frisbee in order to establish moral superiority

[@epichaiku]

*stands and slow claps* YES YES THIS!

[@darthmarticusLFC]

When he asked how old his gran was I thought he'd say 21.

[@cedarwings82]

4:43 😆😆😆😆

[@cleverusername9369]

I love how Jost's sense of humor is so much weirder and darker than you'd guess by his SNL persona

[@EdwoodCA]

You should check out Jost's writing for the joke swaps with Michael Che, then. His demeanor on camera is one thing, but his writing for others, well... he's not co-head writer for being 'normal'. :D /and of course, Jost gets absolutely wrecked by Michael's joke swaps. And it's epic to see.

[@cleverusername9369]

@@EdwoodCA oh, the Jost/Che joke swap tradition is the stuff of legend and song. Fuckin love it when those guys sabotage and try to get each other canceled

[@lashendawest7509]

We love colin jost and seth meyers

[@TheMacacoco]

My mom would always say that she was 29. I knew the year she was born and I could do math, so I knew her real age. When I turned 30, I told my mom that she couldn't tell people that she was 29 anymore since her son was older than her. Her response was, "That's your problem."

[@hamperionsma7218]

Positivity Force

[@anniehuckerby9281]

That was great 😂🇨🇦

[@NewMessage]

I got an aunt who's turned 40 like, 7 times.. I get it.

[@DNTXPCTMCH]

My mom was 36 years old for over 20 years.

[@Albe3331]

I love the Spanish Flu remark.

[@TolyTheTolerBear]

It would be so cool if Seth and Colin did a comedy tour together 🤔🧐🤓🙏🏼

[@jochildress5003]

My mom said 22 when I was a little kid, and I believed it too. I told a babysitter who asked, and I was the laughingstock of the neighborhood. Must be a mom thing.

[@cuzned1375]

I was born on my mother’s 23rd birthday. So, for 21 years, we said that i was getting older while she stayed 23. But then i got to 21, and she wouldn’t take the birthday back. Utter bait n’ switch BS on her part. So my mom’s still 23, and i’m 51. She got me good.

[@mwater_moon2865]

Oh that's good one! I may have to use it, since I spent my birthday in labor with my daughter (water broke as I got out of bed that morning, though she had the bad taste to come at 2 am the next day). As of right now I say I never turned 40 b/c that birthday happened in lockdown.

[@timmyeades7908]

Seth and Colin share the same sweater proveyour.

[@kierenlewin1510]

Yeah my mum always lied to us as kids, I remember her always referring to her brother and sister as "older brother" and "older sister" .. she is of cause the oldest of them and had all of my cousins and my sister and me fooled for years.. 😅

[@tomaszskowronski1406]

grandma got them jokes. One of them "that's a 4th war in my life, including 2 world wars"

[@mzunnurain]

I can remember mom in her 20s. Only 18 year difference.

[@PeterBachman]

First the Spanish Flu, brilliant.

[@A_Dirrty_Bird]

I'd been looking for some new podcasts to try. Was excited to hear about Colin and Wandas then immediately disappointed to find that its an Audible exclusive. Don't really have any interest in migrating my podcast listening to a different app at this point

[@davidt3956]

My mom used to say 29 then 39. We told her she had to stop after her youngest hit 50.

[@kinsmed]

Seems like referencing comments is a bad idea. I meant... "Wow, what an amazing interview!"

[@justjane2070]

When we asked my mum how old she was she said „The same age as my tongue and little bit older than my teeth“ 😊

[@kallen868]

She stole that from the movie Miracle on 34th Street. 🎅🎄😅

[@justjane2070]

@@kallen868 no, they stole it from her !

[@farrahtassy8986]

Omg! My grandmother 👵🏿 also died at 106!!!!

[@diannediamond8643]

I was 30 every year until my daughter turned 30 and the jig was up

[@kimberlyvarvorines4933]

My mom stopped telling her age on her birthday when she was in her early fifties because my youngest sister who had Down syndrome would announce how old she was every year. Later on we had to tell her that my mom really was older than she thought because she fibbed to her so she would quit telling my mother's age😊

[@Feralsquirrel]

21st birthday anniversaries

[@MsMiika13]

Thoroughly enjoy Colin and I will listen to his book but it's "tell my brother and me." Not I. Maybe that was intentional? I'm also in the Mom's Rule camp! My mom was always 33.

[@Beth-ie]

Nice to think of these two families hanging out irl. I mean, they're all millionaires, but they gotta have friends in the city!

[@brianbriggs7327]

My grandma was 39 every year

[@hannahcrouch22]

God there was an amazing joke Colin could have ended on to tie back into his earlier joke

[@concernedhuman436]

Jost will take over for Loren.

[@bouncytrapbeats]

The baby photo gag didn't work because you have to build it up. Be like "this is actually a big scoop. it's the first time we're showing a picture of our kid to the public..."

[@marknugent9851]

106?!?! The day she died was the day he found out she, also, wasn't 21.

[@garrybrown3165]

Cosmo or CosMs was the name I suggested as a code name when my wife and I were expecting our first child in 1982! We compromised on Sarah when she was born. (My wife didn't care for the association with Carl Sagan's TV show.) Great name, though, in MY opinion.

[@leilaniaileenlove]

Hmm 'buddy'

[@deborahberman1542]

So his grandma was 85 when she had his mom. Haha

[@user-rr7bv3fu4b]

Ask'em what year they were born, every year.

[@mndrew1]

Grandma Jost: "I'm not leaving before I see that punk Kissenger dead."

[@wolfmanbob321]

She did and she does.

[@Matt_with_2Ts]

My mum was born during a leap year on February 29th, so at a spry 50, I'm technically older than her...... I've had 50 birthdays. She's had like 12... Kinda makes my dad seem like a creepy pedophile type when ya put it in that context... NOW! My dad. The Jerry Lee Lewis of Allentown, PA. Technically, she's still not old enough to drive. I'm her Uber, constantly taking her to and from soccer practice. Oi. PIMA. She's not old enough to drink either, so I sneak her shots of Jameson on the sly. My dad says that is contributing to a minor and is punishable by law. I say, "So is pedophilia, dad, but you're the one who married her."

[@shaunacohen7630]

My great grandmother was born on Feb 29 1900. When she turned 84. The family got together for a big 21st birthday party!

[@brothertaddeus]

@@shaunacohen7630 1900 was not a leap year. There was no Feb 29, 1900.

[@wallflower7873]

I really feel like colin should have said that his grandma was 21 years to continue to bit,.

[@2Goiz_1ShanDA]

Just do the jokes that are written for you! we don't care about wealth privilege or you're personal endeavors❤ USA is going ol' skool!✌️

[@shawncrites6896]

Too funny...

[@Forgetalltheshootingstars]

Here are the two history of weekend update

[@INSULARZX3]

🎉❤❤❤

[@riankagill]

my mum joked to us that she was 15, when i was 5 i told a member of staff at my school that my mum was 15 and that my sister was 12...she was concerned lol

[@avianna7738]

I too have every intention of being 26 for the next 20 years.

[@abbycross90210]

Um, ACKSHULLY Colin, it was a submersible, not a submarine.

[@riobrasilsambashowssambist1453]

I hate that "writers" are ignorant about grammar. They told my brother and ME is the correct object pronoun.

[@ReneeKadlubek-gt9qm]

I'm so sorry so many men demeaned me while needing my things to succeed.

[@revengefrommars]

He's either really not a math guy or he's a great comedian. (5+5+2)/3 = 4. Pretty easy math. (Math jackals represent!)

[@miguelavendano8818]

So if his grandma was 106 years and his mom is 21, the she had her 85 years old wow.

[@Aptster1939]

Yeonmi Park!! Yeonmi Park!! Yeonmi Park!!!!

[@nicholasxanthis6148]

Colin has to be a good writer to be where he is on SNL, but he never pops in these interviews and has SO much help from the hosts

[@mightyone3737]

Not sure if people don't get it, but I'm pretty sure everyone's mom lied about their age because it's 'rude to ask a woman's age' in their generation. Also, the first 'modern' submarine was used during the US civil war iirc? It even sunk a warship, though I think they went down together.

[@solidpixel]

He is referencing the time between the Titanic sinking and that submarine that imploded

[@ZaddyOG]

So what else does he do the other six days of the week?

[@ZaddyOG]

Must be nice to have a silver spoon 🥄 like Colin. Work once a week on weekends and meeting celebrities is such a difficult life.

[@AR-ed3xw]

Imagine thinking everything on snl happens only on Saturday, and there is nothing happening during the week to make the show!

[@lsmith8684]

Colin told me to tell you, It's really nice!!!!

[@B.D.F.]

How is Colin already developing Jowls?

[@user-zl3vc6zr1c]

Wow he’s gay, wow

[@ZaddyOG]

He’s not funny.

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

This is so boring. Compare this nonsense to when Carson and Rickles would kid around with each other. This should never have been broadcast. This feels exactly like being at someone's house you don't know very well and they start talking about their favorite dinners 😢

[@contedefees]

people's tastes have changed over the past 50 years. We're exposed to so much performative behavior on social media/internet/TV that seeing friends genuinely connecting and enjoying each others' company is refreshing and fun.

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

@@contedefees Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Cool that bland neighbor chat turns you on 👍

[@shawnuel]

@@FreeFree-ur4zqAnd it’s cool you don’t understand subtle, nuanced humor!

[@solidpixel]

Then you shouldn't have come to their house. You are a fan of at least one of these two aren't you? if not, then you shouldn't go to their house expecting to be entertained. And if you are a fan then strangers is not a good analogy. try again

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

@@solidpixel I just looked up your remarks on other videos. Do you think you're in a relationship with studios and actors?