SNL’s Colin Jost Announces Wild New Career Move
The Daily Beast • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Colin Jost, known for his work on Saturday Night Live and Pop Culture Jeopardy!, is executive producing and set to star in a new Peacock drama series based on the true crime podcast Wolves Among Us.
- The series will depict the life of Larry Lavin, a dentist who secretly operated a large cocaine drug empire across multiple states and Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- This project marks Jost’s first time starring in and executive producing a dramatic series, expanding beyond his previous acting roles in films and comedy.
- Alex Barnow, showrunner of The Goldbergs, will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with Larry Lavin himself also involved as an executive producer.
- Lavin was arrested in 1984, fled with his family for two years, and was eventually sentenced to prison, with his sentence later reduced on appeal.
