Colin Jost recalled Buffett coming to his rescue in his 2020 memoir, 'A Very Punchable Face'
Jost revealed that Buffett came to his rescue after he nearly drowned while surfing in St. Bart’s in 2014.
Jimmy Buffett attends opening night of his jukebox musical "Escape to Margaritaville" in New York City in 2018.Jimmy Buffett's Final Days Were Filled with Laughter, Says Sister: 'He Brought Joy to So Many' The comedian said he headed out into the water, and started riding waves between three and four feet tall. As Buffett hung out with his family, Jost rode a wave in. But when he hopped off his board, he quickly realized he was stuck, as his leash was caught under the rocks Buffett had warned him about.
“I unhook the leash and swim back through the breaking waves with my bleeding foot, and Jimmy Buffett is waiting outside the waves with my surfboard, and I’m super apologetic for not only interrupting his family vacation, but also for destroying his leash and forcing a seventy-one-year-old man to endanger his own life to save mine,” he wrote. “Jimmy hands me the board and points to a gentler section of waves to the right and says, ‘That might be more your speed over there.
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