Seth Meyers confessed to Andy Cohen on Watch What Occurs Dwell that he hasn’t gotten round to seeing Saturday Night time but, so possibly it’s no shock that not one of the authentic forged’s characters seems on his rapid-fire countdown of all-time Saturday Night time Dwell favorites.
Who did make the reduce? Listed here are the 5 biggest SNL characters ever, in accordance with Meyers…
Debbie Downer
Introduced with out remark from Meyers, Debbie Downer was Rachel Dratch’s signature character. The identify turned synonymous with that one that manages to search out doom in even the happiest information, bringing down your complete group within the course of. The character’s first look might maintain the SNL file for many crack-ups in a single sketch. “I all the time cherished when issues went ‘incorrect’ on the present,” Dratch mentioned within the SNL oral historical past Dwell From New York, “as a result of it reminds you the present is actually stay.”
Buckwheat
“I do know it pre-existed,” Meyers says, “however I feel (Eddie Murphy) made it his personal.”
Snoop Dogg, one other of Cohen’s friends, proved it by singing “Wookin’ Pa Nub,” one in all Buckwheat’s biggest hits.
Colleen Rafferty
Despite the fact that Kate McKinnon’s perpetually kidnapped character made Meyers’ all-time record, he doesn’t know her identify, calling her “Colleen McCaffrey.” Maybe he mixed “McKinnon” and “Rafferty” to create the odd portmanteau? Cohen not less than knew what Meyers meant by the “Shut Encounters” character, calling it “superb.”
MacGruber
Meyers shouted out Will Forte, citing his “enduring love for MacGruber.” And it’s not simply the brief sketches. “A terrific movie,” mentioned Meyers. “Solely 90 minutes. Test it out.”
“I simply watched the film for the primary time!” gushed Cohen. “It blew my thoughts.”
Stefon
Shock, shock. “My one real love” is Meyers’ decide as Saturday Night time Dwell’s biggest character. “Simply take a look at him!”
To be honest to the entire different characters in SNL’s 50-year historical past, Stefon is the one one who Meyers married on the present. “He was emotional, and I used to be emotional, and we’re sitting there, holding arms and virtually crying, and he’s bought a marriage veil, and I’m like, ‘It is a lot like an precise wedding ceremony,’” Meyers mentioned on his Late Night time present in 2014. “After which just a few months later, I bought precise married, to my present, actual, human spouse. After which after we bought married? Nothing. Simply nothing.”
