SNL: Seth Meyers’ best sketches

Another one of Seth Meyers’ top sketches means it’s another collaboration with Amy Poehler. Whether always planned or by accident, the two seemed to do some of their best work together during their SNL tenure which overlapped between 2001 and 2008.

And speaking of planned or by accident, that brings us to this commercial parody from season 27 in 2001. The idea of a one-night stand resulting in pregnancy and the repercussions seems ahead of its time. Recall that a similar concept was used for the 2007 film Knocked Up from Judd Apatow starring Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl.

Meyers and Poehler demonstrate some of that same uneasiness around each other that marks the start of Knocked Up. When she calls him out for focusing on his fantasy football draft, we see a little similarity to the Needlers already.

Commercial parodies have been a staple of Saturday Night Live since the show began in 1975. They are typically filmed at the start of the season and spread out over the course of that year’s episodes. Additionally, the show has also looked to pregnancies and birth countless times in the past for material. Remember the birth of Ted Brogan? Or how about the Seth Meyers-narrated “Pregnant in Heels?”

So there is just a small sample of Seth Meyers work away from the Weekend Update desk. You can watch a lot more of his clips over at the NBC website for Saturday Night Live. Then be sure to catch Seth host the Oct. 14 episode with musical guest Paul Simon. Come back to Last Night On for a recap and let us know what you thought!