LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SETH MEYERS.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYONE.
IT IS SO EXCITING TO BE BACK AT SNL.
I WORKED AT THIS SHOW FOR OVER 12 YEARS.
I LOVED IT. I LOVE BEING HERE.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] LEAD LEAVING IT WAS INCREDIBLY
HARD. I CRIED ON MY LAST SHOW.
THEN I FOR REAL TOOK A JOB DOWN THE HALL.
LATE NIGHT STUDIO IS 100 YARDS THAT WAY.
I HAD AN EMOTIONAL BREAK DOWN AND THEN BASICALLY MOVED FROM
RACHEL AND MONICA'S APARTMENT TO JOEY AND CHANDLER'S APARTMENT
WHICH WAS VERY EMOTIONAL FOR RACHEL.
BUT THIS PLACE STILL MEANS SO MUCH TO ME.
BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WORKED HERE ARE MY DEAR FRIENDS.
OVER 100 PEOPLE AT MY WEDDING FROM THIS SHOW.
I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH. I LOVE ANDY SANDBERG SO MUCH I
NAMED MY TWO BOYS DICK AND BOX. AND BOKS IS THE TROUBLEMAKER.
DICK IS THE LITTLE GENTLEMEN MAN.
THIS PLACE MAKES MEMORIES FLOOD BACK.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE OPENER WAS WITH DONALD TRUMP AND KANYE WEST.
I WAS HERE WHEN HE WAS HERE IN 2004.
HE PLAYED MY FATHER IN A SKETCH. LET'S TAKE A LOOK.
THERE YOU GO. MOST PEOPLE HAVE PICTURES OF
THEMSELVES WITH PRESIDENTS GET THEM FRAMED.
I DID NOT. AND THEN KANYE.
SO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED KANYE SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP.
BUT I AM NOT BECAUSE I HAVE MET KANYE.
AND I AM INCAPABLE OF BEING SURPRISED BY HIM.
HERE IS A TRUE STORY ABOUT KANYE WEST.
AND LET ME PREFACE IT BY SAYING I'M A HUGE KANYE WEST FAN.
WHEN I WAS HERE NO ONE DID MORE MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES.
ONE TIME HE WAS A MU CAL GUEST BUT HE WANTED TO DO A SKETCH
WHERE HE WOULD INTERFERE DIFFERENT AWARD SHOW AND SAYING
THEY MADE A MISTAKE AND HE SAID THAT'S HILARIOUS BECAUSE I DO
THAT. WHICH IS GOOD SELF AWARENESS.
AND SO WE DID THE SKETCH. AND WE HAD KANYE INTERRUPT THE
KIDS CHOICE AWARDS, NO BELL PRIZE, INTERRUPTED A STATE FAIR
BECAUSE HE WAS UPSET HIS PUMP KIM DIDN'T WIN.
BUT HERE'S THE REASON I'LL NEVER BE SURPRISED BY KEN YEA WEST,
THAT SKETCH WAS IN 2007 AND HE INTERRUPTED TAYE ALREADY
SWIFT -- TAYLOR SWIFT IN 2009. THAT WHOLE TIME I WAS TELLING
YOU THAT STORY YOU THOUGHT IT WAS HIM INTERRUPTING TAYLOR
SWIFT. THAT HADN'T HAPPENED YET.
KANYE DID A SKETCH ABOUT HOW CRAZY IT WAS HE INTERRUPTED
SPEECHES, AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER HE WAS AT AN AWARD SHOW
AND THOUGHT, I SHOULD DO IT AGAIN.
[ LAUGHTER ] SO PEOPLE SAY ARE YOU SURPRISED
KANYE SUPPORTS TRUMP? I SAY NO.
AND, LOOK, I DON'T USUALLY GET TO SAY THIS, BUT MY FIRST FIVE
YEARS HERE WERE SO HARD. I WAS TRYING TO FIT IN.
THEN I WAS ALWAYS WORRIED I WOULDN'T MAKE T FIVE YEARS OF
CONSTANT TERROR. THAT IS THE TRUTH.
AND AFTER THAT, I GOT WEEKEND UPDATE WITH AMY POLLARD AND SAT
AT A DESK RIGHT HERE ON THIS STAGE AND LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE
HEAD WRITER [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
AND AFTER THAT I WAS HAPPY EVERY SINGLE SECOND THAT I SPENT HERE.
AND NOW THAT I'M BACK, SO IS THE TERROR.
BUT ALSO THE JOY. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING
ME DO THIS. IT'S AN HONOR.
WE GOT A GREAT SHOW. PAUL SIMON IS HERE TONIGHT,
EVERYBODY! [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ]
SO STICK AROUND. AND WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
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