Colin Jost disputes Pete Davidson's declare that they had been each 'stoned' after they paid $280,100 for a decommissioned Staten Island ferry: 'I used to be truly stone-cold sober'

• Colin Jost and his former “SNL” costar Pete Davidson co-own a decommissioned Staten Island ferry.
• Davidson lately mentioned that they had been “very stoned” after they made the acquisition final 12 months.
• Nevertheless, in an Instagram put up, Jost mentioned that he “was truly stone-cold sober” on the time.

Colin Jost has set the file straight about his frame of mind when he bought a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry together with his former “Saturday Evening Dwell” costar Pete Davidson.

The 40-year-old comic has debunked the concept that he and Davidson had been “very stoned” after they purchased the boat, as Davidson lately claimed.

“I don’t know what is going on on with that factor,” Davidson instructed Leisure Tonight’s Will Marfuggi on the New York premiere of “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” earlier this month. “Me and Colin had been very stoned a 12 months in the past and acquired a ferry. And we’re figuring it out.”

Nevertheless, based on Jost, that wasn’t the case.

“Is it worse that I used to be truly stone-cold sober after we purchased the ferry?” Jost wrote on Instagram Wednesday, alongside a headline citing Davidson’s protection of their extravagant buy.

Jost went on to recommend that the pair may have the ferry up and working by 2025.

” We’re excited to show the non-believers improper. You are going to be BEGGING to get on this ferry in two years. Mark my phrases,” he wrote.

Again in January 2022, Insider reported that the 2 Staten Island natives gained the John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned Staten Island ferry, at an public sale. They paid $280,100 for it.

The boat was decommissioned because of “mechanical points” and was left in “poor situation,” a spokesperson for the New York Metropolis Division of Citywide Administrative Companies instructed the New York Put up on the time.

Initially, the duo’s real-estate dealer, Paul Italia, instructed the Put up that Jost and Davidson deliberate to show the boat into “a reside entertainment-event house.”

Davidson instructed Folks shortly after the acquisition that he had a lot of thrilling plans.

“There’s going to be a bar, there may be going to be a pleasant restaurant and… the decrease degree, the large house goes to be an leisure house and we’ll dock it within the metropolis,” he mentioned.

“Or it may all go to shit and I will be doing tons and many gigs subsequent 12 months,” he added.

Primarily based on the images from the public sale, which opened at $125,000, the boat will want substantial work earlier than it is able to welcome friends onboard.