STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.-- His years of being a head writer for Saturday Night Live have prepared Staten Island native Colin Jost for A Very Punchable Face, his first novel detailing defining moments of his life.

Jost, hailing from Grymes Hill and most known for co-hosting SNLs Weekend Update, mentions the borough throughout the 33 chapters of his autobiography. Chapters like Wait, Youre From Staten Island? and I Leave Staten Island and Immediately Get A Job Back on Staten Island are more straight-forward mentions of his hometown.

If youre ready for spoilers, here are all the times Colin Jost mentions his time living on Staten Island in his new book.

BRINGING UP S.I. TIES IN THE INTRODUCTION

Jost used the introduction of his book to display his anxiety about sharing his life story, and what makes him qualified to fill pages upon pages with moments from his 38 years living. In that chapter, he brings up his father, Daniel Jost, I look like a guy whos always on the verge of asking, Do you know who my father is? Jost wrote. Even though my father was a public school teacher on Staten Island. If you had Mr. Jost for mechanical drawing freshman year, then you know who my father is!

He dedicated A Very Punchable Face to his father Daniel, his mother Dr. Kerry Kelly and brother Casey Jost, a TV personality on Impractical Jokers and comedian.

In the first chapter of the book, Jost wrote about his experience being four years old and not speaking. His parents sent him to speech therapy at Staten Island University Hospital. If youre reading this and you were a speech therapist at Staten Island University Hospital around 1986, Jost wrote. Please know: I am eternally grateful to you for giving me the power of speech. It was so much more effective than the Power of Grayskull.

ADDRESSING STATEN ISLAND STEREOTYPES

Assuring readers hes not like the rest of em, Jost explained that the borough exceeds the expectations of reality TV portrayals and stereotypical Italian-American population.

In reality, Jersey Shore-types make up only a very small percentage (40 percent) of Staten Islands population, Jost wrote. The rest are grounded, hardworking, normal-speaking humans, who almost never stand outside their house shaking a rolling pin and yelling, Im a-gonna a-kill you!

Geared toward an of-Island audience, Jost explains the history of Staten Island and how some of the well-known areas of the borough got their names. He mentions Arthur Kill, Fresh Kills and The Kill Van Kull, writing that the borough was a Dutch Island before the British took it over, and the Dutch word for river is kill, which makes a lot of places on Staten Is- land sound even more violent than they already are.

THE REDEEMING PARTS OF THE BOROUGH, ACCORDING TO COLIN

Much like his co-anchoring gig with SNLs Weekend Update, Jost wrote satirically about his love for the borough (although he clearly means it, since he has spent years giving back to Staten Island after becoming successful.) He mentions loving memories of his childhood in the borough, writing that it was a good place to do regular kid stuff.

We played a lot of sports and wandered around unsupervised, he wrote. And with the exception of that Cropsey serial killer and several neighborhoods with the worst crime rates in all of New York City, it felt safe!

WORKING FOR THE STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

This SNL personality was not afraid to shout out his humble beginnings. In the book, Jost speaks about his time working at the Staten Island Advance/ SILive.com. (Check out this roundup of his published work, pre-NBC fame.) He spent the years of 1997-2001 at a desk in the Grasmere office.

The paper I worked at, the Staten Island Advance, was actually an amazing newspaper with incredibly talented reporters and editors,' he writes. And at the time, it had a circulation of 100,000, which was roughly one out of every five people on Staten Island, he wrote. The job itself was fantastic. I was a night editor,' which meant I did whatever random stuff hadnt been done before the paper went to press: Rewriting articles, designing the layout for each section, proofreading every page, and my favorite task writing headlines.

He recounts going on crime assignments and making the front page because of a story centered around a raccoon. You know, typical Staten Island news stories. He wrote The weirdness of local news on Staten Island was one reason I loved the job.

COMMUTING AS A STATEN ISLANDER

Much of his success stories take place once Jost writes about leaving Staten Island for Manhattan. My brain was definitely my ticket out of Staten Island, because it got me into a Catholic high school called Regis that would change the course of the rest of my life, he wrote.

While still living in the borough, the comedian wrote about his woes commuting to Manhattan every day for school and riding the good ole Staten Island Ferry. In the same chapter, Jost wrote a side-note: One of my great joys in life was making a movie with Method Man, who told me he would never leave Staten Island because it was the only place in America where he could get pulled over and the cops were actually excited to see him.

Colin Jost and Method Man in the same sentence? Thats as Staten Island as it gets.

A Very Punchable Face, under Penguin Random House, is available now. You can order it at Amazon.com.

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