There’s a long list of Saturday Night Live personalities who have rocked the Weekend Update slot. Michael Che and Colin Jost have currently been at it for long enough people have wondered if they may exit soon, and when they do eventually walk out the door they’ll join a list of alums that includes Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Kevin Nealon, Colin Quinn, Jane Curtin (you ignorant slut), Norm Macdonald, Amy Poehler, and Seth Meyers among others. Not every week is easy, however, as even seasoned vets like Meyers have admitted they’ve gone on bad streaks.
Meyers actually talks about his time on SNL quite a lot, and brings a lot of former SNL personalities on to his late night show, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when he was recently asked about his time on Weekend Update. At the time, the funnyman was pulling double duty as head writer and Update host, and early on it wasn’t going well, as he recounted:
