Colin Jost & Rochester Fringe

Rochester Fringe Festival organizers announced today that multiple Emmy Award- nominated writer, comedian, and performer Colin Jost will be the new comedy headliner for the 2024 Fringe.

Jost will take the stage at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Friday, September 13, at 7:30 PM. Tickets for Colin Jost are available for purchase now, priced between $45 and $129 (plus $8 venue ticketing fees), at rochesterfringe.com.

All tickets previously purchased for Pete Davidson will automatically be honored for Jost’s show. Anyone who purchased tickets and wishes to return them for a full refund may do so by contacting the Eastman Theatre Box office at 585-274-3000 or boxoffice@esm.rochester.edu BEFORE FRIDAY, AUGUST 23.

Colin Jost is a writer, performer and author best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live." He started writing for "SNL" in 2005 and has been the co-anchor of the show’s "Weekend Update" since 2014. Jost has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards and has been nominated for 14 Emmy Awards for his writing on "SNL."

Jost and Michael Che have hosted special editions of "Weekend Update" on MSNBC during the 2016

Republican and Democratic national conventions as well as the primetime "Weekend Update Summer Edition" in 2017.

In 2018, they co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2015, Jost wrote "Staten Island Summer," a coming-of-age comedy that was released by Paramount Pictures. In 2016, he had a supporting role in the Warner Bros. film "How to Be Single."

Jost can be seen in the Paramount film "Coming 2 America." He also starred in the Warner Bros. live-action animation film "Tom & Jerry." Jost co-wrote an upcoming "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie for Paramount alongside brother Casey Jost.

He also stars in the upcoming wedding comedy "Worst Man." As a writer, Jost has been published multiple times in The New Yorker and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine and HuffPost, among others. In 2020, he released "A Very Punchable Face."

A New York Times bestseller, the memoir is a series of essays that documents pivotal moments in Jost’s life, including growing up in Staten Island in a family of firefighters, commuting three hours a day to high school, attending Harvard while Facebook was created and more.

The annual Rochester Fringe Festival has hosted some of the world’s top comedians as headliners, including John Mulaney, Eddie Izzard, Patton Oswalt, Marc Maron, Mike Birbiglia, and Tig Notaro.

Tickets for all the 13th Annual Rochester Fringe shows and events are on sale now at rochesterfringe.com. You can follow Rochester Fringe Festival for additional information and announcements: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | #rocfringe24.

ABOUT ROCHESTER FRINGE FESTIVAL

The award-winning, 12-day Rochester Fringe Festival was named by the New York Times as “one of the country’s more prominent multidisciplinary events” in September 2023. The Fringe has become the largest multidisciplinary performing arts festival in New York State and one of the most attended Fringe Festivals in the United States. More than 750,000 people have attended more than 5,000 performances and events at the Fringe since its inception in 2012.

The non-profit organization’s mission is to offer a platform for artists to share their creativity and develop their skills, while also providing unparalleled public access to the arts. It strives to be diverse and inclusive, and to stimulate downtown Rochester both culturally and economically. It showcases the work of regional, national, and international artists, from emerging to superstar.

ABOUT FRINGE FESTIVALS

In 1947, eight theatre groups showed up - uninvited - to perform at the newly established Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland. Although not listed in the official program, the groups performed anyway, at venues they found for themselves. The following year, a Scottish journalist coined the term “festival fringe” to describe these non-curated shows that began turning up annually.

The Edinburgh Fringe is now the world’s largest arts festival and the third largest event after the Olympics and the World Cup. Today, there are more than 250 Fringe Festivals worldwide, with nearly 50 in the United States. The Rochester Fringe Festival was the first in Upstate New York.

ROCHESTER FRINGE SPONSORS INCLUDE

New York State Council on the Arts; City of Rochester; Rochester Area Community Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; University of Rochester; Monroe County; Ames Amzalak Memorial Trust; Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation; RIT; Nocon & Associates; ESL Foundation; Elaine P. and Richard U. Wilson Foundation; Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Foundation; Konar Enterprises; Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; The Rubens Family Foundation; Mary Mulligan Trust; The Pike Company; The Golisano Foundation; VisitRochester; Nazareth University; St. John Fisher University; Monroe Community College; 13WHAM TV; CITY Magazine; D&C Digital; WXXI; J.M. McDonald Foundation; Fred & Floy Willmott Foundation; Hyatt Regency Rochester; City Blue Imaging; Aspire Transformation Services; Lake Beverage; Bivona Child Advocacy Center; Rochester Downtown Development Corporation; Hamilton A/V; Wilkins RV; McCarthy Tents & Events; Wegmans; Canandaigua National Bank; Broccolo Tree & Lawn Care; The Harley School; Boylan Code; Bond Schoeneck & King; Yelp!; and the House of Guitars.