Seth Meyers

About

Seth Adam Meyers (; born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian, television host, writer, actor, and producer. He has hosted Late Night with Seth Meyers, a late-night talk show on NBC since 2014. Prior to hosting Late Night, he was a cast member on NBC’s sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (SNL) from 2001 to 2014. He served as SNL’s head writer, as well as an anchor of the news parody segment Weekend Update, from 2006 until his departure from the show.

Meyers was born on December 28, 1973, in Evanston, Illinois. When he was four, his family moved to Okemos, Michigan, where he lived until he was ten. After that, he grew up in Bedford, New Hampshire. Seth’s mother, Hilary Claire (née Olson), was a French teacher and his father, Laurence (Larry) Meyers Jr., worked in finance. At one point, his mother and fellow Saturday Night Live co-star John Mulaney’s grandmother Carolyn Stanton performed together in a hospital benefit show in Marblehead, Massachusetts, called Pills A-Poppin’ directed by Tony Award-winning choreographer Tommy Tune. Seth’s younger brother, Josh Meyers, is an actor and comedian.
Meyers’s paternal grandfather was an Ashkenazi Jewish…