Jost writes that, as the ambulance carrying Suhr pulled away, Capt. The collapsing World Trade Center towers on 9/11.

Nicknamed “Captain America,” Suhr was the first firefighter to die on Sept. Jost recalled that the first fireman his mother treated at the scene was Danny Suhr, who had been setting up a response center at the south tower when he was hit by a falling body that crushed his skull. He mentions Johansson briefly in the book and has said in interviews that he prefers to keep their romance private.

But in the self-deprecating “Punchable,” he’s clearly still close to his Staten Island roots and proud of his family’s four generations in the FDNY. Jost is the longtime head writer of “SNL” and co-anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” and he’s also engaged to actress Scarlett Johansson. The fact that Kelly drove right up to the burning towers before they collapsed, got out of her car and started to treat injured firefighters at the harrowing scene is partly why Jost titled one chapter, “Why I Love My Mom.” In a tragic irony, one of them was Scott Davidson, the father of Jost’s future “SNL” castmate and fellow Staten Islander Pete Davidson. This time Kelly was off to the biggest fire of her life, one that would almost kill her - and take 343 NYC firefighters. Some nights she’d tuck her boys into bed on Grymes Hill, a neighborhood populated with their cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents, and tell them she was off to a “huge fire in the Bronx.” FDNY searching for survivors among the rubble at ground zero. Kelly was the chief medical officer for the New York City Fire Department - and ended up being the longest-serving chief of any department in city history - according to her son. With phones out of order, Jost frantically emailed his father from Cambridge: “Dad! What’s going on? Are you home? Assuming mom is OK?”ĭr. They feared the worst, according to Jost in his new memoir, “A Very Punchable Face” (Crown), out Tuesday, about his middle-class upbringing on SI, life at Harvard and his storybook-smooth hiring at “SNL” when he was only 23. Colin was then a sophomore at Harvard University his younger brother was in class at a Staten Island high school, and his father was at home. Kerry Kelly, who had left a patient’s bedside on Staten Island to race to downtown Manhattan after hearing that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. They were worried about Jost’s mother, Dr. On the morning of 9/11, “Saturday Night Live” star Colin Jost’s family was doing a lot of live updating - but not the satirical kind. Scarlett Johansson’s zodiac sign made her the world’s highest-paid actress Where is Colin Jost from 'SNL' going on tour this summer?Ģ9 SNL cast members have stand-up shows this year. Colin Jost is renting out his Hamptons home for $65K per month

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