Guest took over seven episodes into his lone season, after the show spent a year using its guest hosts as news anchors including two episodes with Billy Crystal as "Fernando". He was perfectly fine, but having Guest not play a character, do live performance. But if he ever wants to make an ensemble comedy about local news, we'd be first in line at the theater. While she certainly had the chops to grow into the role, as her gig hosting the White House Correspondents Dinner showed, she ultimately preferred focusing on her spot in the main cast.
Colin Quinn took over after the controversial midseason firing of Norm MacDonald, and the circumstances made it tough for him to win over the audience.
Quinn is a stand-up legend, and his material was often great , but much of the time he seemed visibly uncomfortable — in a suit, reading from a teleprompter, even dealing with the live studio audience, as he'd often shrug awkwardly when a joke didn't hit. The anchor chair seemed to take away some of his angry Brooklyn Irish edge, and while his opening monologues were often great, they didn't take as a permanent fixture of Update. But he parlayed what he learned on "SNL" into a series of wildly successful one-man theater shows.
Michael Che is the first African-American head writer in "SNL's" history and the first African-American Update anchor in history, and he is now in his fifth year as the co-anchor. Initially Che wrote for the show, then became a "Daily Show" correspondent for just nine episodes, before being hired back at "SNL" to host Update. He's become more comfortable as the show adjusted to let him do long, stand-up-esque bits instead of just one-liners, because stand-up is still where Che seems looser and more comfortable.
Unfortunately, that change has also meant Colin Jost gets to do monologues as well. Primarily, that was so he could keep doing debates with Curtin, though perhaps the Weekend Update staff needed his management experience behind the scenes.
As talented as he was, Aykroyd wasn't a perfect fit as the primary anchor, mainly because his greatest skill was disappearing into characters. At the news desk, Aykroyd was at his best playing the chauvinist foil to Curtin, but having Aykroyd do straightforward reads of news jokes was a waste of his gifts. Kevin Nealon took over after Dennis Miller's departure with a different take on Update.
The verbose fount of esoteric references was replaced by Nealon doing Update in character as a befuddled newsman. And Nealon looked the part, too. But where he shone was as the straight man to the various Update characters, especially Tim Meadows' Ike Turner , Chris Farley's air-quote enthusiast Bennett Brauer and all of Adam Sandler's various singers.
After three seasons, Nealon passed the baton to Norm MacDonald and returned to the regular cast. But Update showed he was more than the guy who would break up in sketches.
Plus his dynamic with Fey made Update much more, well, dynamic. He could nail straightforward jokes as well, which opened the door for opportunities to host award shows and eventually have the most popular late-night show in the country.
Murray paired up with Jane Curtin for Seasons 4 and 5 of "SNL," debuting a laid-back, breezy style that can be best described as "extremely Bill Murray. His annual Oscar picks were always a highlight, typified by him dismissing most nominees with "Who cares?
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.
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