Pete Davidson And Colin Jost (Like Most People Who Ride The Staten Island Ferry) Were High When They Purchased It

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Page Six- Pete Davidson admitted he and Colin Jost were high as kites when they purchased their Staten Island ferryboat.

“Me and Colin were very stoned a year ago and bought a ferry,” the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member told “Entertainment Tonight” Monday at the New York City premiere of his latest movie, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.”

However, Davidson and Jost’s plans for the vessel — which they and other investors successfully bid on for $280,000 and planned to turn into an event space — have been docked for the foreseeable future.

The Staten Island Ferry is a hell of an experience as a rider. For those unfamiliar, the Staten Island Ferry runs from Staten Island (obviously) to Manhattan every day, all day, all night and is free for riders. Although the pain and suffering, and experiences you see on the boat almost make you wish you paid just so you don't have to deal with the chaos. 

If you take it on the weekends early in the morning you see people passed out waiting in the terminal. Even worse, the ones that make it on the boat usually cause a scene. For three straight months on my commute in and out of the city there was a man who walked up and down the boat reading the bible. Finally one day a guy couldn't take it and screamed "Go down there (pointing to the other end of the boat), the sinners are down there ! I got my sermon at 6am this morning." Referring to the fact he already heard this guy rattle off the book of Luke. I've seen birds fly through the window. They serve beers. I've seen people run into security guards as the doors were closing. It's chaos. 

Most notably, on a weekend night you see people who have come back from a club or a bar out in the city who are a little drink, or a lot drunk, or high. That 2am boat smells like a dispensary. Which is very fitting that Jost and Davidson would chose to honor the riders who have boarded this boat high as a kite, by getting high and buying a boat. Men of the people. 

In all seriousness, Jost and Davidson have never forgotten where they came from, and their ideas to turn the ferry into comedy club is a pretty cool idea in general. That's if they can get it off the ground. Davidson admitted he has no idea what's really going on with it just yet. 

Page Six - “I have no idea what’s going on with that thing,” the “King of Staten Island” star, 29, confessed, adding that he and the “Weekend Update” co-host, 40, were “figuring it out.

I just kind of laugh at this whole thing that these two got high as a kite and for a laugh bought a ferry boat, and now are potentially stuck with the (expensive) problem. At worst, they probably just assumed they could work it into the Weekend Update or standup.