{"id":334879,"date":"2026-09-01T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:14:49","slug":"pete-davidson-and-colin-jost-are-turning-the-staten-island-ferry-into-a-free-floating-comedy-club-for-one-night-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334879\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson and Colin Jost are turning the Staten Island Ferry into a free, floating comedy club for one night only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s most puzzling investment<\/a> is finally starting to make sense\u2014or at least as much sense as two Saturday Night Live<\/a> stars<\/a> buying a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry ever could.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, September 17, the pair will turn the John F. Kennedy into the “Snapple Island Ferry,” a free, floating comedy club docked at Pier 17 in Lower Manhattan. Davidson and Jost will host the one-night-only event, featuring a 60-minute show with sets by a lineup of rising comedians. (And yes, the whole thing comes to you courtesy of that titular bodega-favorite beverage brand.)<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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The show is being produced by The Stand Group, the team behind Union Square’s The Stand Restaurant & Comedy Club and The Stand West at Chelsea Market. The group is also a partner in the ferry alongside Davidson and Jost, meaning this particular floating venue has plenty of comedy-club DNA onboard.<\/p>\n

The full lineup has not yet been announced; names will be revealed on Snapple’s social channels in the lead-up to the show. Guests can expect free Snapple beverages and snacks\u2014and best of all, tickets cost absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

A limited number of free pairs will be released daily at 3pm from Thursday, September 3, through Tuesday, September 8, at register.snappleislandferry.com<\/a>. Each person can claim one pair, covering admission for themselves and a guest. Given the hosts, price and extremely unusual venue, we would not count on those tickets floating around for long.<\/p>\n

Doors will open at 7pm on September 17, with the show beginning at 8:30pm. The ferry will be stationed at Pier 17, at 89 South Street.<\/p>\n

Davidson and Jost purchased the John F. Kennedy at auction in 2022, immediately inspiring questions about what, exactly, one does with a 277-foot retired ferry. The boat has since been pitched as a future waterfront entertainment destination. For one night, at least, New Yorkers finally have an answer: you put comedians on it and hope nobody’s material sinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Davidson and Colin Jost’s most puzzling investment is finally starting to make sense\u2014or at least as much…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9373,97873,125856,9,24,63,9374,125853,134,136,135,125857],"class_list":["post-334879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-colin-jost","tag-davidson","tag-jost","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pete-davidson","tag-snapple","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-the-stand-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}