Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Seth Meyers Trivia


Seth Meyers, a longtime member of the cast of "Saturday Night Live" who delivers the "Weekend Update" each week, will perform at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on November 2. Meyers will perform at 7 p.m. at UAB's Alys Stephens Center. It will be UAB's first-ever Homecoming Comedy show.

Here are a few things you may not know about Seth:

After graduating from Manchester West High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, he earned a degree from Northwestern University, then he took his act on the road. He worked with the traveling troupe of a group called Boom Chicago.
While his dad, Larry Meyers, works with GE Trade Finance, his mom, Hilary Meyers, is a legendary French teacher at McKelvie Middle School in Bedford, New Hampshire, who is known almost universally throughout the town as Madame Meyers.
He sees three distinct Windows of Rejection, which refers to the fact that ideas on SNL have three different opportunities to get rejected before being aired.
He commutes to "Saturday Night Live" (1975) by subway from his apartment in the West Village. Once he gets there, it's hard to leave. There is a constant, break-neck pace to producing a live, weekly television show. Seth has already found that necks are not the only thing that can be broken--your spirit is also on the line every day.
Eventually, the road took him to Amsterdam, where he was the writer and co-star of a two-person comedy show called "Pick-ups and Hiccups" that he and Jill Benjamin staged five nights a week in a 200-seat theater. With Amsterdam as his home base, he did versions of the show in London and Edinburgh--even Singapore--but it was during a brief run at the Chicago Improv Festival that he caught the eye of a "Saturday Night Live" (1975) casting director. He was invited to New York for a try-out, then a follow-up, and then he was hired.
Brother of Josh Meyers, a cast member of "MADtv" (1995).
Promoted to full cast member status of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) in August 2003 along with Jeff Richards and Will Forte.
An avid Boston Red Sox fan, he donated his Celebrity Poker Showdown winnings to the Jimmy Fund. The Jimmy Fund is a Boston area charity specializing in children's cancer treatment. The Jimmy Fund has been associated with the Red Sox for over 50 years.
Seth did the introduction for WMUR's Friday Night Football broadcast on September 24, 2004.
In 2006, he was promoted to Weekend Update co-anchor on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) with Amy Poehler.
Personal Quotes
About Madonna: "She's the reason I asked my parents what the word 'virgin' meant. I've been fantasizing about her for so long, I feel like she's entitled to half my earnings." (In Style magazine, Sept/2006)

Tickets for the performance are $15 for students and $25 for the general public. Call 975-2787 or go to http://alysstephens.uab.edu/ to buy tickets or for more information.

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