Staten Island has by no means seen this a lot drama.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost debated over whether or not or not they need to promote the ferry that the comic purchased along with his fellow Staten Island native Pete Davidson.
Johansson, 40, made her case in opposition to Jost, 42, on Wednesday’s episode of “TODAY with Jenna & Mates.”
“If anyone on the market wish to begin a GoFundMe for the Staten Island ferry, please be my visitor,” mentioned Johansson, who’s co-hosting the morning present with Jenna Bush Hager all week.
“I don’t know if I’m talking for the Staten Island ferry or in opposition to it, however assist our household, okay?” the mother of two continued. “This has now grow to be a telethon for ‘Help the Staten Island ferry.’”
It was then Jost’s flip to defend conserving the ferry.
“I hope you’ve gotten an excellent thick pair of gloves at dwelling, as a result of some day you’re going to be getting so many paper cuts from all of the checks that begin rolling in from this ferry,” Jost advised his spouse. “It will put meals on our desk, lastly.”
“I imagine on this ferry, if anybody on the market believes in it, please go to the GoFundMe,” the “Saturday Evening Stay” star added.
However Johansson continued to argue that the couple ought to dispose of the ferry.
“If we promote it for scrap metallic, we may truly perhaps,” she mentioned, earlier than Jost interjected, “That’s what you want the gloves for? Dealing with the scrap metallic?”
Bush Hager, 43, requested the pair to make clear if ‘the ferry could be taken away from the dock.”
Whereas Johansson was uncertain, Jost answered, “I imply, may or not it’s let free to only drift? Yeah. one hundred pc. It’s truly one of many issues our insurers are frightened about.”
After listening to out either side, Bush Hager in the end sided with Johansson for giving what she deemed the stronger argument.
“We’ll see,” Jost dejectedly mentioned. “You’ll all see!”
Jost and Davidson, 31, bought the retired vessel at public sale for $280,000 in 2022. The partnership, which incorporates architect and developer Ron Castellano and comedy membership proprietor Paul Italia, reportedly deliberate to transform it right into a $34 million leisure venue.
Final 12 months, Jost advised Individuals that purchasing the ferry was “completely the dumbest and least thought-through buy I’ve ever made in my life.”
Web page Six beforehand reported that the “SNL” duo allegedly purchased the boat whereas they have been “very stoned.”
“The way in which I justified it’s for the sum of money we have been placing into shopping for it, on only a primary square-footage degree, is should you discovered the precise place for it to be, you have been basically shopping for a constructing on its aspect that’s 65,000 sq. toes,” Jost defined at NY Vogue Week in September. “So round New York, that could be a excellent value per sq. foot.”
In 2023, Davidson advised Seth Meyers that he and Jost wish to flip the boat into an leisure venue.
“We wanna have the ability to dock it from April to September, perhaps October, in New York and it will likely be like a restaurant,” mentioned Davidson. “There might be a live performance venue. There might be a movie show, upstairs like, type of, restaurant space. After which there’s resorts in it. So, we’ll have like a few these. After which within the winter tug it to Miami.”