Seth Meyers Reveals Top 5 Favorite ‘SNL’ Characters, Including “My One True Love”
deadline.comAs 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.
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. “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.
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