Seth Meyers is sharing his ideas on rumors that Lorne Michaels is able to bid farewell to Saturday Evening Stay and retiring from the NBC late-night sketch present.
The Late Evening host just lately made an look on Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out, the place the podcast host requested Meyers about Michaels leaving SNL.
“Are you gonna take over for Lorne, or is it Tina [Fey] and then you definately?” Birbiglia requested, to which Meyers responded, “I feel this can be a false narrative that Lorne goes anyplace.”
Meyers was a head author at SNL and labored on the sketch present between 2001 and 2014. The actor doesn’t assume Michaels was utterly severe when he mentioned he wished to retire from the comedy present after its Fiftieth season.
“I feel it made sense for Lorne — who’s, yeah, obtained a aptitude for the dramatic — to say, ‘I feel I’ll be executed at 50,’” Meyers mentioned. “It’s not like Lorne’s obtained one thing else he desires to do greater than this.”
Birbilgia fired again with a joke, saying, “So that you assume it’s Kenan [Thompson]?” to which Meyers quipped, “I feel it’s Kenan.”
Earlier this yr, Michaels reiterated his plans for the Fiftieth anniversary of SNL and promised to determine issues after that was executed.
“We’re doing the Fiftieth-anniversary present in February of ’25, so I’ll positively be there for that, and positively be there till that, and someday earlier than that, we’ll determine what we’re gonna do,” he mentioned in an interview with Leisure Tonight.
After the ET reporter dropped Fey’s identify about changing him, Michaels mentioned, “It may simply be Tina Fey, however you already know, there are lots of people who’re there now who’re additionally, you already know…,” including, “Tina’s good and nice at every thing. She’s an important individual in my life.”
Michaels co-created SNL in 1975 and has been a part of the NBC sketch late-night present since then, serving as author, producer, and govt producer.
