{"id":700603,"date":"2026-04-02T22:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700603\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:46:14","slug":"colin-jost-to-star-as-dentist-drug-kingpin-in-drama-series-at-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/700603\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Jost To Star As Dentist\/Drug Kingpin In Drama Series At Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: Colin Jost<\/a> is branching out to scripted series. The Saturday Night Live veteran has teamed up with writer-producer Alex Barnow<\/a> (The Goldbergs, Power: Origins) for a drama, which has landed at Peacock<\/a> for development. <\/p>\n

\n\tJost is executive producing and attached to star in the untitled series, from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Jost and his No Notes Productions have an overall deal. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe project will not affect Jost\u2019s tenure on SNL where he has been for more than two decades in various roles, including co-head writer and most recently Weekend Update co-anchor alongside Michael Che since March 2014. <\/p>\n

\n\tShould the Peacock series get picked up and Jost choose to continue on SNL, he could do both, something other SNL cast members have done in the past, including Kenan Thompson, who juggled the sketch program and his eponymous NBC sitcom, Aidy Bryant, who did SNL and Hulu\u2019s Shrill, and Cecily Strong (SNL and Schmigadoon!). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe untitled Larry Lavin<\/a>\/Colin Jost project will be written by Barnow based on Season 1 of the Audacy podcast Wolves Among Us. By day, Larry Lavin (Jost) was a respected Ivy League dentist and family man \u2013 by night, the East Coast\u2019s most elusive cocaine kingpin. This series is inspired by the shocking and absurd true story of the suburban dentist who built a drug empire behind the fa\u00e7ade of the American dream.<\/p>\n

\n\tBarnow, who serves as showrunner, executive produces with Jost and Jeff Grosvenor of No Notes Productions and Rachel Kaplan (La Brea) of Absecon Entertainment. Lavin, Matt Davis and Steve Seidel serve as co-executive producers. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the series is designated as drama, it is expected to have comedic elements as both Jost and Barnow come from comedy background. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis would mark Jost\u2019s primetime TV acting debut; he has appeared in such comedy features as Staten Island Summer, which he also wrote, How To Be Single, Tom & Jerry, Coming 2 America and the upcoming The Breadwinner, as well as the comedy-drama Fly Me To the Moon alongside his actress wife Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn SNL, Just has done acting in occasional sketches and currently portrays Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. He also hosts Pop Culture Jeopardy!, which is set to move to Netflix from Prime Video. Jost is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine Barnes.<\/p>\n

\n\tBarnow, who most recently served as a consulting producer on the upcoming Starz drama series Origins, the latest offshoot in the Power universe, was previously executive producer and showrunner on ABC\u2019s longrunning comedy series The Goldbergs. He created and executive produced another ABC comedy, Mr. Sunshine, starring Matthew Perry, and also worked on a slew of broadcast sitcoms. Barnow, who co-wrote the 2019 feature Shaft and got his start in television on Family Guy, is repped by UTA, Amplified Entertainment, and HJTH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Colin Jost is branching out to scripted series. The Saturday Night Live veteran has teamed up with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":700604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[292781,185,43326,171,292782,12819,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-700603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alex-barnow","tag-celebrities","tag-colin-jost","tag-entertainment","tag-larry-lavin","tag-peacock","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116337546968789972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}