All aboard! Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are opening the Staten Island Ferry.
The pair famously won the bid and purchased the decommissioned John F. Kennedy Staten Island Ferry at auction for $280,000 in 2022. Davidson and Jost have held several events on the ship, such as Tommy Hilfiger‘s 2025 New York Fashion Week show. The ferry is getting ready for one of its biggest nights ever; this fall it will host a one-night-only comedy event.
The former Saturday Night Live co-stars are working with Snapple to put on the Snapple Island Ferry. It will be hosted by Davidson and Jost, and produced by The Stand Group, which is a part owner of the ferry. The Sept. 17 event will be “a one-day-only, free comedy club built to give New Yorkers an unexpectedly refreshing break from the daily grind,” according to Snapple.
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There will be a limited number of free tickets available, with a set amount dropped daily at 3 p.m. ET from Sept. 3 to Sept. 8. Fans can apply for tickets at register.snappleislandferry.com but are limited to one pair per person. The show is for those 21 years or older.
“Turning the ferry into a floating comedy club with Snapple makes more sense than anything else we considered, and it still doesn’t make much sense,” Davidson said in a statement. “Either way, we’re giving people a chance to take a break, have a laugh, and do something completely ridiculous with us.”
For fans of the comedians (or the Staten Island Ferry) not in New York, don’t worry! Snapple will be posting clips for the show on their social media channels.
In September 2024, Jost shared with People that buying the ferry was not his smartest decision.
“It is absolutely the dumbest and least thought-through purchase I’ve ever made in my life,” Jost said. “The way I justified it is for the amount of money we were putting into buying it, on just a basic square-footage level, is if you found the right place for it to be, you were essentially buying a building on its side that’s 65,000 square feet. So around New York, that is a very good price per square foot.”
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