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Seth Meyers Reveals His 5 Favorite ‘SNL’ Characters

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Seth Meyers Reveals His 5 Favorite ‘SNL’ Characters

How Saturday night live marks its 50th anniversary, Seth Meyers looks back fondly on their on-screen love story.

The late at night The host called Bill Hader’s long-running “Weekend Update” character Stefon “my one true love” as he listed his five favorites. SNL characters in honor of the landmark season of the NBC sketch comedy show.

He listed the rest of his top five as Will Forte’s MacGruber, Kate McKinnon’s Colleen Rafferty, Eddie Murphy’s Fajol and Rachel Dratch’s Debbie Downer, as appeared in Watch What Happens live.

Meyers’ number one pick should come as no surprise after she married the “town correspondent” on Hader’s farewell episode in 2013, breaking up Stefon’s wedding to Anderson Cooper in an epic sketch filled with all the odd character references, including a cameo from Ben Affleck. .

After his 2005-’13 career SNLHader 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.

“That wasn’t a scripted scene, but I did have a proposal for me 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 to the The Bodybuilders podcast

He revealed that the film would open with Stefon taking him out for a night on the town, with “super quick cuts of me and him at all these crazy clubs. That would be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag, and Stefon said: “He’s dead!” Then the splash: Stefon: The movie.”

Meyers was a cast member SNL from 2001 to 2014, hosting ‘Weekend Update’ from 2006 until his departure. He took over late at night in February 2014.

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