And Meyers deserves plenty of credit for all of these-because, of course, he helped write some of them, but also because his specific skill as a performer is in supporting the people on stage with him. Cecily Strong’s “Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party” was so good that it helped land Strong her own hosting seat at the Update desk. There was Bill Hader’s Stefon, culture correspondent to the urban underworld Garth and Kat, musicians in twin sweater vests (played by Fred Armisen and Kristen Wiig) prone to badly improvised duets Taran Killam’s Jebidiah Atkinson, 1860s speech critic Drunk Uncle, Bobby Moynihan boozily slinging racial and ethnic slurs. Some of the most memorable characters in recent SNL history rose to fame on Meyers’s Weekend Update. But in one key way, Meyers has been perhaps the greatest anchor in Weekend Update’s history: it’s hard to imagine a better straight man for the oddball guests who pass through the Update desk. Other anchors have been sharper joke tellers: Meyers’s low-key, dimpled charms look somewhat duller next to Norm Macdonald’s deadpan absurdism or Dennis Miller’s erudite sarcasm or Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s energetic mix of umbrage and sass. His comic style has always been minimalist, involving a lot of cocked eyebrow and liberal use of the smirk. He’s had the longest stint in the anchor chair in the history of the show, and his Weekend Update has been consistently funny and smart. This Saturday, Seth Meyers will host his last Weekend Update after more than a decade with SNL.
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