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Seth Meyersis congratulatingColin Jostfor marking an exciting achievement onSaturday Night Live— well, sort of!
Last weekend, Jost, 39, surpassed Meyers, 47, as theSNLcast member with the most appearances anchoring the show’sWeekend Updatesegment.
Since joining the segment — which looks at current events through a comedic lens — back in 2014, Jost has now anchored 155 episodes.
Jost previously joinedWeekend Updateas a co-anchor alongsideCecily Strongamid the show’s season 39, when both stars took over for Meyers, who left the comedy sketch series to hostLate Night with Seth Meyers.
Strong, 37, only worked with Jost for the second half of the season, before currentWeekend UpdatestarMichael Chetook over in fall 2014.
In a"Corrections" segmentduring his late-night show on Friday, Meyers paused to sarcastically congratulate Jost for the feat.
Noting that he thinks Jost and Che, 38, “do a great job” co-anchoring the segment together, Meyers then shared, “A few people have come up to me and said, ‘Did that make you sad, having your record broken?'”
After laughing, the late-night host continued, “I moved on. Okay? I’m good. On my own terms! And I’ve got a job. I mean, I’ve hosted like 1,200 of these while Jost has done his 155. I’ve got an everyday job. Old fat cat Jost doing once a week? Rolling out on Saturday and you’re all throwing crowns at his feet? No, thank you!”
Meyers also jokingly added that Jost “has had it easy” as “All his Updates — most of them — [were] during the Trump era, when the jokes wrote themselves.”
source: people.com
