A Very Punchable Face

by Colin Jost

And I learned very early on that laughing at yourself is a terrific survival mechanism.

“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.” —JOHN UPDIKE

That’s two lessons I learned very quickly: (1) You don’t need to do anything in life—if it feels wrong or unnatural, it probably is. And (2) I had no one but myself to blame for not trusting my own instincts and pushing back when I felt something was wrong.