‘Saturday Night Live’: Taran Killam would replace Seth Meyers on ‘Weekend Update,’ if asked

While we don’t know all of the details yet surrounding some changes coming up at “Saturday Night Live,” there is one thing that you can definitely say for sure: Change is indeed coming. Bill Hader is off the show, and it seems as though Fred Armisen and possibly Jason Sudeikis, as well, though nothing is confirmed. (Sudeikis is the more likely of the two to return.) With Seth Meyers leaving the show in the new year, this means that there will be even more holes to fill on the legendary sketch show.

While there are reasons to be sad about losing the likes of James Carville, The Devil, Stefon, and Ian Rubbish from the show, there are also reasons to celebrate. Why? It frees up some newer actors to get their hands dirty. This is what Taran Killam suggested while chatting with Entertainment Weekly about his Emmy opportunities moving forward:

“It’ll definitely be a shake-up. There’s a lot of shoe space to fill, so to speak. I’m just trying to be optimistic about it. It’s certainly on my mind, and I’m taking the summer to work and develop new material because there’s so much opportunity now. At the same time, there’s a sense of mourning. We had some really great senior cast members as role models and people to look up to. They’re really going to be missed. Now we have to step up. I’m just excited to go have fun because I’m very close to a lot of the cast members who are left like Bobby Moynihan and Vanessa Bayer. Because there’s a little bit more real estate, for lack of a better term, hopefully we’ll get to try some stuff that’s fun and new.”

Killam also expressed a thought as to whether or not he would be open to replacing Meyers on “Weekend Update,” if this was something that was presented to him in the future:

“Sure. If that’s a nod that I were given, it’d be a pretty difficult thing to turn down. It’s such an exalted position. But I’m sure Lorne’s thought about that way more than I have, so… in Lorne I trust. I will miss Seth, though.”

Are you excited to see more of a man who has been one of the unsung heroes of “SNL” over the past few years? For more coverage of the sketch show this summer, check out our list of some of the great potential hosts for the new season.

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