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Description: This retrospective look at the work and comedy of SNL cast member Bill Hader encompasses primarily on the reoccurring character Stefon. In addition you can also find this collection DVD, other sketches that include but are not limited to the only three Dateline with Keith Morrison sketches and another three sketches of “The Gay Couple from New Jersey” along with multiple appearances of his impersonation of Peter O’Toole. If you ove Bill Hader or just a fan of “Stefon” then loook no futher. The most complete and comprehensive collection of Bill Hader’s work as his character Stefon anywhere on DVD
Sketch Listings
“Dateline with Keith Morrison”, “The Gay Couple from New Jersey” & MORE
(Features all 3 original sketches of Dateline)
1 .Season 33 Episode 9 11/22/08: Dateline Keith Morrison Sketch with Kristen Wiig and Host Tim McGraw. Morrison interviews a woman (Kristen Wiig) whose boyfriend was found dead in a car trunk; a couple (Jason Sudeikis and Casey Wilson) attacked by sharks; and a man (McGraw) whose wife murdered their neighbors
2. Season 34 03/14/09: Dateline Keith Morrison Sketch with Andy Sanberg and Tracy Morgan. Morrison interviews a man (Andy Samberg) who walked in on a convenience store robbery; a couple (Abby Elliott and Kenan Thompson) who had the roof cave in on their wedding; and a convicted murderer and cannibal (Morgan).
3. Season 34 Episode 20 04/11/09: Weekend Update with “The Gay Couple from New Jersey”. This brief segment in Weekend Update in which Fred Armisen and Bill Hader play Tony Dinato and his partner, Vinny. The two are extremely macho, Italian-American, and very stereotypically “New Jersey”, but also very openly gay. The couple mentions on their third appearance that they have two adopted children, Joelyn and Joey Jr. This sketch started when New Jersey recognized same-sex civil unions.
4. Season 37 12/3/11: (Brief Digital Short of Batman with Buscemi and Andy Sanberg) Dateline Keith Morrison Sketch with Steve Buscemi. Morrison covers the ‘Mystery of the Chopped-up Guy’ wherein the man accused of chopping up the guy (Buscemi) admits he chopped up the guy immediately. Morrison then speaks to others involved in the case despite there being nothing to investigate.
STEFON City Correspondent for Weekend Update compilation 2008-2015 & MORE
(Features a TOTAL of 17 Stefon sketches) Also features sketches: Peter O’Toole and “The Gay Couple from New Jersey”
5 .Season 34 Episode 11/01/2008: First appearance “Movie Pitch with Stefon” with Ben Affleck
6. Contains THREE Stefon sketches Season 34 2009 “Spring tips best New York ”spots to check out, “Summer Tips for out of towners”, “Fall tips to the Big Apple”
7. Season 35 2009: NY Tips for ”Christmas”
8. Contains TWO Stefon sketches Season 36 2010 2 “Christmas Holiday Message” performing “O Christmas Tree” with other recurring characters, David Paterson (Fred Armisen) and Snooki (Bobby Moynihan). “Valentines Day” Report
9. Season 36 2010 “Mother’s Day Report” and Seth Myers acknowledging season finale wishing everyone a great summer joined by Stefon.
10. Season 37 Episode 3 10/08/11: “Autumn Tips and Stefon appears with the character Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) from the eponymous film with Ben Seiller
11. Season 37 2011 “Christmas Report”
12 .Season 37 2012 “Spring Report”
13. Season 37 2012 “Summer Report”
14. Season 38 2012 “Halloween Report”
15. Season 38 2013 “Spring Report”
16. Season 38 Episode 21 05/18/13: “Summer Report” The character made his last recurring appearance on Weekend Update at the end of season 38 because Hader was leaving SNL. Former Weekend Update co-anchor Amy Poehler made a guest appearance for a “Really?!?” segment with Meyers before Stefon emerged, expressing disapproval of Poehler. After Stefon’s usual comment on “New York’s hottest club”, Meyers criticized his recommendations, making Stefon flee NBC Studios to get married. After Poehler advised Meyers to follow Stefon, Meyers pursued Stefon to the wedding at Marble Collegiate Church on Fifth Avenue but found Stefon was marrying journalist Anderson Cooper. Seth enters the church, finds Stefon, and takes him back to Studio 8H, where they proclaim their love for each other. The guests at the wedding include many of the idiosyncratic people Stefon has mentioned during his Weekend Update segments. Ben Affleck made a cameo appearance, reprising his role as David Zolesky from Stefon’s debut sketch. After Seth and Stefon return to the studio, characters from Weekend Update gather to congratulate them. The wedding segment is a reference to the 1967 film The Graduate.
17. Season 40 Episode 3 10/11/14: The return of Stefon, During Hader’s first time hosting of SNL the same year, Stefon returned to Weekend Update, hosted by Colin Jost and Michael Che, to recommend New York clubs for tourists interested in autumn activities and ended the sketch by announcing his pregnancy Report Season 39 “Seth Finale” also includes MORE weekend update sketches featuring: as a drunk Peter O’Toole, “The Gay Couple from New Jersey”, “John Mark Karr” comments on OJ and another from “The Gay Couple from New Jersey” and one other sketch from Season 32 02/03/07: as Peter O Toole with Drew Barrymore (as herself) The Formosa
18. Season 39 Episode 13 02/01/14: Stefon, Amy, Andy return for the finale of Seth Myers’ last appearance as correspondent for Weekend update after 10 years before moving on to his Late Night show. Very emotional segment, not a dry eye in the house.
19. 40th Anniversary Special SNL 40: February 15, 2015: Weekend Update with Tina Fey , Amy Poehler and Jane Curtain. Edward Norton portrayed Stefon but was confronted by the real Stefon portrayed by Hader and Meyers.
TOTAL RUNNING TIME is 2 HOURS
Background and History: Stefon Meyers (né Zolesky), better known as Stefon, was a character on Saturday Night Live played by Bill Hader. He usually appears on the Weekend Update segment and later marries the anchor Seth Meyers. Stefon is hired by Weekend Update to give advice to tourists about family-oriented places to go in New York City. Instead, he always gives advice about going to disturbing clubs, often with unrecognizable names (some of which are just noises), and bizarre happenings and celebrity appearances. Some of the things he mentions being at these clubs are: Black George Washington, Blingo (Black Ringo), Gizblow the coked-up gremlin, Jewpids (Jewish cupids), Celebrities – no, not celebrities. Things like fat kids on slip n’ slides and black Irish men. The fat Hawaiian guy nobody invited.
“Stefon” often prefaces the list of strange things at a club by saying, “This club has everything…” He also refers to “human ____,” which are midgets in strange costumes that include: Human boomboxes, Human traffic cones, Human fire extinguishers, Human fire hydrants, Human bath mats, Human suitcases, Human kites, Human roombas, Human DVRs, Human defibrillators, Human squatty-potties and Human Fanny packs
Bill Hader almost always cracks up and breaks character while playing Stefon, which is the reason for Stefon’s trademark posture of getting nervous and putting his hands over his face. The Running Gag on the show is to alternate his lines just before the scene trying to get him to break as many times as possible.
His only non Weekend Update appearances are on November 1, 2008 (his first appearance) where he appeared on the “Movie Pitch” sketch and on February 18, 2012 where he appeared in the opening monologue. On October 20, 2012, Stefon also introduced guest host and musical guest Bruno Mars in his performance of “Young Girls.” On October 11, 2014, Stefon announced he was “pregnant.” Seth Meyers’ desk on Late Night with Seth Meyers features a Matryoshka doll of Stefon.
Originally a filmmaker with his brother David, Stefon is shown to be a New York scenester, and is often wearing a tattoo-printed shirt, with his hair artistically colored and styled. He is gay and regularly hits on Weekend Update anchor, Seth Meyers, eventually kissing him on the March 10, 2012 episode. On the October 8, 2011 episode, he is shown dating Derek Zoolander, played by host and former SNL cast member Ben Stiller.
During Stefon’s final regular appearance on May 18, 2013, Stefon and Meyers get married, after originally trying to marry Anderson Cooper at a pre-recorded part of Weekend Update, with Amy Poehler and other famous Weekend Update characters and impressions (including Kate McKinnon’s Ann Romney, Bobby Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle, Kenan Thompson’s Jean K. Jean, and Ben Affleck’s David Zolesky) celebrating for them.
He later returned with Amy Poehler on Seth’s farewell show. He returned when Bill Hader was hosting on October 11, 2014. He appeared cloned by Edward Norton and Hader during the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special.
