Scarlett Johansson wants Colin Jost to sell Staten Island ferry for scrap metal: 'Help our family!'

Ill-advised boat purchases have launched countless domestic disputes — but rarely on the scale of the one between Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson.

The Saturday Night Live comedian and the Black Widow actress, who married in 2020, recently debated Jost's unexpected purchase of a decommissioned Staten Island Ferry vessel during the "Great Debate" segment of Today With Jenna and Friends.

"If anybody out there would like to start a GoFundMe for the Staten Island ferry, please be my guest," Johansson said. "I don't know if I'm speaking for the Staten Island ferry or against it, but help our family, okay? This has now become a telethon for 'Support the Staten Island ferry.'"

Jost insisted that his investment would soon prove its value. "I hope you have a good thick pair of gloves at home, because some day you're going to be getting so many paper cuts from all the checks that start rolling in from this ferry," he quipped. "It is going to put food on our table, finally. I believe in this ferry, if anyone out there believes in it, please go to the GoFundMe."

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Johansson had other plans. "If we sell it for scrap metal, we could actually maybe —" she said, before Jost interjected, "That's what you need the gloves for? Handling the scrap metal?"

Host Jenna Bush Hager expressed a logistical concern. "Can the ferry be taken away from the dock?" she asked.

"Could it be let loose to just drift? Yeah! 100 percent," Jost confirmed. "It's actually one of the things our insurers are worried about."

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Hager declared Johansson the winner of the debate after this revelation.

"We'll see," Jost said scornfully. "You'll all see!"

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Jost and his former SNL castmate Pete Davidson first reflected on their maritime purchase on "Weekend Update" in January 2022. "We bought a ferry, the windowless van of the sea," Davidson joked. "We're boat people now, Colin."

Jost sarcastically added, "Yes, it's very exciting. We thought the whole thing through."

Davidson told Seth Meyers that the duo and the boat's third co-owner, real estate agent Paul Italia, plan to convert the ferry into an entertainment venue. "We want to be able to dock it from April to September, maybe October, in New York and it will be like a restaurant," the King of Staten Island star revealed on the Family Trips With the Meyers Brothers podcast in 2023. "There will be a concert venue. There will be a movie theater, upstairs like, sort of, restaurant area. And then there's hotels in it. So we'll have a couple of those. And then in the winter tug it to Miami."

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Davidson indicated that the ship wouldn't set sail for a few years, though. "We just got all the plans built," the comedian said. "We had them do one of those computer-generated, you know, show-you-what-it-could-be type of thing. And now we're out to a few people and it seems like it's all going well, but it's definitely five years away."

Watch the full video of Jost and Johansson debating the ferry — as well as other topics including bedtime stories and theme parties — above.

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