Stefon Movie Based On Bill Hader’s ‘SNL’ Character Was Discussed, Seth Meyers Says

Erik Pedersen
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Stefon Zelesky — movie star?

Seth Meyers said this week that a movie based on Bill Hader’s popular Saturday Night Live character was discussed but scrubbed, leaving the club kid who appeared on the late-night staple often from 2008-13, and a couple of times after, to linger only in fans’ memory. And YouTube (see below).

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In an interview for Las Culturistas, the podcast hosted by comic actor Matt Rogers and SNL‘s Bowen Yang, the Late Night host said he would have had a small part in the pic but that his “Weekend Update” anchor would have died early on — after a long night of partying with Stefon. So someone else would have had to co-star.

“There was a moment in time where the idea of a Stefon script was being discussed,” he said. “This was not a scene that was written, but I did have a pitch for myself and Stefon because I knew it was going to be Stefon and James Franco or whoever. It wasn’t going to be me and Stefon.”

Meyers added that the plan for for Hader’s Stefon to take him out on the town. “Just come out,” the party boy would have said, “have a night me and you together — Stefon’s New York.” Meyers added, “And I’m like, ‘All right, one night.’ And then you would do these super-fast cuts of he and I at all these crazy clubs. That would be the opening montage, and then it would end with me in a body bag, and Stefon would say, ‘He’s dead!’ Then the splash: Stefon: The Movie.”

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“A movie based on an SNL character?” folks might say to themselves. “Dodgy proposition.” Well, yes and no. Several movies based on Saturday Night Live skits have hit theaters in the past 40-plus years. But for every big success such as The Blues Brothers Movie and Wayne’s World — which spawned a sequel and a chart-topping soundtrack and made a smash hit of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” again — there’s a body count of messes. Consider It’s Pat, A Night at the Roxbury, The Ladies Man, MacGruber and others.

While mulling whether Stefon: The Movie would have worked, here’s a compilation of some of the Hader characters greatest bits:

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