Yahoo Movies SNL Stefon Movie Would Have Opened With Death of [Spoiler], Says Seth Meyers
A prospective movie spinoff for Bill Hader’s Saturday Night Live character of Stefon would have opened with a killer twist.
Late Night host Seth Meyers, as a guest on the Las Culturistas podcast hosted by SNL‘s own Bowen Yang and comedian Matt Rogers, offered a sneak peek at the Stefon movie opener he once pitched.
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Stefon, of course, was the recurring Weekend Update correspondent who would all but ignore anchor Seth Meyers specific cues and instead just hype New York’s “hottest” clubs and their very peculiar draws.
Hader left SNL in 2013, a year ahead of Meyers’ own departure (to host Late Night). But Meyers had at least the germ of an idea to launch Stefon into a big-screen odyssey, as other breakout SNL characters have done (with widely varying degrees of success).
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Relaying his idea on Las Culturistas, Meyers said, “It should start with Stefon at Weekend Update, and when it’s over, I’m once again disappointed that ‘as the city correspondent you did not bring, whatever, St. Patrick’s Day tips.’ And he said, ‘Look, to make it up for you, just come out, have a night — me and you together, at Stefon’s New York.’ And I’m like, ‘All right, one night.’’’
That would tee up an opening montage of “superfast cuts of he and I at all these crazy clubs,” Meyers continued, “and then it would end with me in a body bag. And Stefon would say, ‘He’s dead.’ Then the title splash: Stefon: The Movie.”
The mystery of Meyers’ (fictional) death following a night of god-knows-what-kind-of-carousing with Stefon would never be told, alas. But Hader’s irrepressible club maven will always have a special place in Meyers’ heart. After all, in Hader’s final SNL episode, Meyers did stop Stefon’s wedding to Anderson Cooper.
“That was the greatest gift to me,” the Weekend Update dynamic between him as anchor and Stefon, Meyers said. After starting out as simply a “foil” for Stefon, Meyers — thanks to writers Hader and John Mulaney — eventually was gifted with “my romantic comedy.”
Would you have liked to see Stefon get the big screen treatment?
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