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Santa Song. Kyle's Holiday. Billie Eilish: Male Fantasy Live. Hotel Ad. Hip-Hop Nativity. Weekend Update ft. Punkie Johnson and Andrew Dismukes. Victoria Jackson — The Boyfriend Song ft. Willie Nelson. Happy Thanksgiving from SNL! She was a part of Weekend Update for several years and she brought her patented style of humor to the position perfectly. Though she was always paired up with someone else, Poehler usually shined and was eventually promoted to lead anchor. Her time with Tina Fey on the segment is one of the most well-remembered periods in the segment's history and the two women's careers are inextricably linked because of it.
Norm Macdonald was one of the most controversial members of SNL's cast and his tenure had fans divided and generated some unpopular opinions. Though his time on the show was mired in problems and conflicts, many fans look back on Macdonald's tenure on Weekend Update as one of the best eras in the show's history.
Norm himself was unique with his flat delivery and his ability to keep the audience guessing as to whether or not he was joking. His style of humor was often raunchy and got political and many fans were challenged by his commentary.
Though Chevy Chase was the originator, Jane Curtin was the first cast member to take the segment in and make it a part of her arsenal.
Curtin excelled in the spot because she was a great straight woman to all of the zany characters that would appear during the segment. She had perfect timing and was usually in the thick of things with guests during news stories. Curtin often did the show alone but she was also paired up with a revolving door of co-anchors, who she carried well.
Curtin was flexible in the role and that was why she was able to keep the spot for so long. Tina Fey's time on Weekend Update revolutionized the segment and helped re-establish it as the premier sketch of the entire episode.
Fey, along with her co-anchors, helped to rewrite the way the segment was done and modernized it for the new millennium. Though the series has gone through ups and downs in its history, her time on SNL is well regarded and she's one of the best female cast members.
Fey is a brilliant writer and could deliver the jokes with precision accuracy to illicit the biggest laughs. She was the perfect host because she was able to do everything the previous hosts had done, and bring more to the position, as well. Dalton is a freelance writer and novelist from Orlando Florida. Amy Poehler was half of Update's first all-female anchor pairing, a spectacular two-year run with Tina Fey only interrupted when Fey went on to make "30 Rock," though they later teamed up for a three-year run hosting the Golden Globes together.
Poehler was already a phenomenal impressionist and character comedian, but she proved she could nail jokes, too, especially in Women's News.
When she teamed up with Seth Meyers, they also added bits like "Really? With Seth and Amy. The longest-running occupant of the Update chair, Seth Meyers hosted for seven-and-a-half years. He worked on the show for nearly 14 years, first as cast member, then writing supervisor, before becoming head writer and an Update anchor in He took over "Late Night" in , where after about six months he changed his show so his monologue was basically a Weeknight Update performed at his desk.
Meyers is a great joke writer, but the most memorable part of his hosting tenure might have been his special relationship with Bill Hader's Stefon. New York's hottest couple is Seth and Stefon! At this point, it's one of the longest-recurring sketches in television history or, really, the history of sketches at all. Chase said that without Weekend Update there never would have been a "Daily Show" or "Colbert Report" or the ilk, and while that's a grandiose statement, he's also not wrong.
Chase would start every segment on the phone with an unheard caller, presumably his lover, and right off the bat had his catchphrase "I'm Chevy Chase and you're not," and the recurring bit about Generalissimo Francisco Franco still being dead.
Honestly, ranking Chase among everyone who followed is like ranking Babe Ruth among all home run hitters — he might have been surpassed by modern comedians, and it's hard to compare across eras, but it's undeniable that he was the first one to actually do it. Also, if you read any recent interviews , you know Chase comes off as a giant bambino. She'd been a staff writer for three years and head writer for one, but she was immediately great as an anchor.
Not only was Fey a fantastic joke writer — long, precise, joke-dense sentences — but her jokes were all the more devastating when delivered in her sunny, smirkless delivery.
Fey really hit her stride when paired with Amy Poehler, where the co-anchor chemistry was even better and the jokes even quicker. And while she's on her second award-winning sitcom since leaving "SNL," Fey's most lasting legacy might be in the trends in eyeglass fashion. Norm McDonald was a unique anchor in Weekend Update history, because he truly did not care what the audience thought, and his dark humor reflected that.
Paired with veteran Jim Downey, who was on staff purely to do Weekend Update at that point, Norm dropped deadpan bombs for eight minutes every week, guided by a few core philosophies: German people love David Hasselhoff, and O.
Simpson is incredibly guilty. Arguably, doing roughly O. There wasn't any pretense to pretending to be a news anchor; MacDonald led off every segment with, "And now, the fake news," and he seemed happiest when the audience was stunned. He didn't get any gentler after leaving the show, delivering a flamethrower performance as ESPYs host in , at which point ESPN decided to go with actors and athletes who wouldn't make fun of anyone.
He's one of the best to ever do it, and — sorry, Dan Aykroyd — the greatest Canadian to ever do the job. Dennis Miller had the longest tenure as a solo Weekend Update host, and he redefined the format to make it his. He joined the show when Lorne Michaels returned, along with the Weekend Update name. It wasn't just Miller's jokes but his snarky delivery, mixed in with obscure references, elaborate metaphors, a genuinely cutting mean streak, plus a smattering of "babes" and "Chachis" that made him so beloved.
The format was so perfect for Miller, he essentially took it with him to his HBO show as "The Big Board," with the same photo-heavy topical joke format. The only place his style didn't work was a brief detour into "Monday Night Football" before ABC's hiring of John Madden — "the Pliny the Elder of football," according to Miller — sent him back to the world of talk shows. Still, he was the best to ever do Update. Sean Keane 2 days ago.
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