Earlier than Colin Jost and Michael Che hosted Weekend Replace on Saturday Evening Stay, Seth Meyers hosted between 2006 and 2014. He additionally served as a author on the long-running selection sketch sequence, starting in 2001. Having labored at SNL for nicely over a decade, he’s actually written quite a lot of sketches, however he apparently solely wrote 5 that he knew would work. Now, he has lastly revealed considered one of them.
Whereas taking questions from viewers members in a TikTok for Late Evening with Seth Meyers, one fan requested the host what his favourite SNL sketch was. After getting clarification that the reply might be both for a sketch that he carried out or wrote, he went on to inform a narrative involving Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. With them, he knew he had successful on his arms, regardless of being fairly nervous about it, as he stated:
I wrote when Amy and Tina had been Hillary and Sarah Palin, and that…I imply, I used to be there 12 and a half years, and I feel I solely wrote 5 sketches that I used to be positive had been going to work. And so often, I’d watch type of beneath the bleachers, I would not even watch it stay. I might watch it on a monitor as if that was, like, security. And that one, I simply walked out into the center of the ground and was similar to (raises arms within the air and spins).
Each Poehler and Fey have portrayed Clinton and Palin on a couple of event, and to at the present time, these sketches stay a number of the most memorable. In reality, the sketch “Sarah Palin and Hillary Tackle the Nation” is taken into account considered one of SNL’s finest chilly opens.
So, I feel Seth Meyers’ victorious emotions in regards to the sketch he wrote each earlier than and after it occurred had been warranted.
If I needed to guess which particular Palin/Clinton sketch the late-night host was referencing, I might put my cash on “Sarah Palin and Hillary Tackle the Nation.” The sketch aired in 2008 in the course of the Season 34 premiere. It featured Poehler as Clinton and Fey as Palin as they addressed the American public about sexism, the 2008 presidential election, international warming, and their many disagreements. The video presently has 6 million views on YouTube, and on the time, it was extremely talked about.
Nonetheless, there’s additionally an opportunity he was talking about any of the opposite instances the 2 girls took the stage because the political figures too.
Now, I need to know the opposite 4 sketches he knew would kill. Nonetheless, he did not expose that info…but.
Meyers has, nevertheless, returned to the Weekend Replace desk for the SNL50: The Anniversary Particular, and it was like nothing had modified. He nonetheless sometimes talks about SNL too on Late Evening, together with telling a narrative about working with Kermit the Frog and punching a gap in his workplace wall. And I’d give something to get a complete ebook about his expertise.
Since Meyers incessantly takes questions from his studio viewers at Late Evening with Seth Meyers, it’s very doubtless there will likely be extra tales to return about his days at SNL. Hopefully, which means we’ll be taught extra about these 5 sketches sooner or later. Nonetheless, within the meantime, you’ll be able to watch each Late Evening and SNL as they air on the 2025 TV schedule on NBC or with a Peacock subscription.