As Saturday Evening Dwell marks its fiftieth anniversary, Seth Meyers is fondly trying again at his onscreen love story.
The Late Evening host known as Invoice Hader‘s long-running ‘Weekend Replace‘ character Stefon “my one real love” as he listed his prime 5 favourite SNL characters in honor of the NBC sketch comedy present’s milestone season.
He listed the remainder of his prime 5 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 Occurs Dwell.
Meyers’ number-one choose ought to come as no shock after he married the “metropolis correspondent” in Hader’s 2013 farewell episode, breaking apart Stefon’s wedding ceremony to Anderson Cooper in an epic sketch crammed with all the character’s weird references, together with a Ben Affleck cameo.
Following his 2005-’13 run on SNL, Hader has returned to ‘Weekend Replace’ as Stefon on a couple of events. In the meantime, Meyers revealed final yr {that a} Stefon film “was being mentioned” at one level.
“This was not a scene that was written, however I did have a pitch for myself and Stefon as a result of I knew it was going to be Stefon and James Franco or whoever. It wasn’t going to be me and Stefon,” Meyers defined on the Las Culturistas podcast.
He revealed that the film would have opened with Stefon taking him out for an evening in town, with a “super-fast cuts of he and I in any respect these loopy golf equipment. That might be the opening montage, after which it could finish with me in a physique bag, and Stefon would say, ‘He’s lifeless!’ Then the splash: Stefon: The Film.”
Meyers was a solid member on SNL from 2001 to 2014, internet hosting ‘Weekend Replace’ from 2006 till his exit. He went on to take over Late Evening in February 2014.
