Seth Meyers Reveals Top 5 Favorite ‘SNL’ Characters, Including “My One True Love”
As Saturday Night Live marks its 50th anniversary, Seth Meyers is fondly looking back at his onscreen love story.
The Late Night host called Bill Hader‘s long-running ‘Weekend Update’ character Stefon “my one true love” as he listed his top five favorite SNL characters in honor of the NBC sketch comedy show’s milestone season.
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He listed the rest of his top five as Will Forte‘s MacGruber, Kate McKinnon‘s Colleen Rafferty, Eddie Murphy‘s Buckwheat and Rachel Dratch‘s Debbie Downer, as he appeared on Watch What Happens Live.
Meyers’ number-one pick should come as no surprise after he married the “city correspondent” in Hader’s 2013 farewell episode, breaking up Stefon’s wedding to Anderson Cooper in an epic sketch filled with all of the character’s bizarre references, including a Ben Affleck cameo.
Following his 2005-’13 run on SNL, Hader has returned to ‘Weekend Update’ as Stefon on a few occasions. Meanwhile, Meyers revealed last year that a Stefon movie “was being discussed” at one point.
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“This was not a scene that was written, but I did have a pitch for myself and Stefon because I knew it was going to be Stefon and James Franco or whoever. It wasn’t going to be me and Stefon,” Meyers explained on the Las Culturistas podcast.
He revealed that the movie would have opened with Stefon taking him out for a night on the town, with a “super-fast cuts of he and I at all these crazy clubs. That would be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag, and Stefon would say, ‘He’s dead!’ Then the splash: Stefon: The Movie.”
Meyers was a cast member on SNL from 2001 to 2014, hosting ‘Weekend Update’ from 2006 until his exit. He went on to take over Late Night in February 2014.
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