Bill Hader Reminisces on His SNL Wedding with Seth, Reveals Stefon's Origin | Late Night Throwback

You Had to often do the hardest job at SNL because you were such a good impressionist And you play so many political figures is you had to start the show you were in so many cold opens Which you always talked about how stressful they were yeah, do you remember really hard? I hated doing cold opens, and I remember do you remember your first one? Yes? Yeah? I remember very well you you came in and told me Elliot Spitzer just got in some trouble and you came in and you're like Hey, buddy, you're gonna have to be doing an Elliot Spitzer this week. It's gonna be the cold open It's just gonna be you Danny wrote a Spitzer thing, and I said who's Elliot Spitzer And the look on your face was like why did we hire this? Just like All right, man. Just you know just look at the tape Gonna be great So happy you're here You know and then another time I remember my very second episode. I had to say Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and I said Ruth batter Ginsburg, and you can't you stop me in the hallway, and you went hey Oh, hey hater. It's Ruth Bader Ginsburg Bader as in hater Yeah, no you were very nice, but you were a bit of a dick You're a dick it off it was awesome. It was like all like really good points, and you actually Yeah, you you taught me a lot at the show actually you taught me what the phrase hat on a hat means right the sketch So I had a sketch where that actually John Lutz is a writer We wrote together which was Peter Falk doing showing Natalie Portman how to do Star Wars impressions Just I'm gonna let that settle in for a second and So I I with this the sketch got picked because it did pretty well at yes, and then you said you said uh? Hey, does this kind of a hat on a hat buddy? And I was like what does that mean you're like it's one funny thing But then another totally separate funny thing on top of it, and I was like I don't know. I know it's pretty funny Whatever Seth Meyers, what do you know and then I went out and did it and it died it just died And I remember in between dressing or walking in and seeing it didn't make it and looking at you, and you're like I feel I have you here. We have to talk about Stefan. Yeah And It was such a joy to do it next to you Started as a sketch first you did it once on air with Ben Affleck I did do it once on air with Ben Affleck as a sketch and it barely worked as a sketch with Ben Affleck It was a long walk to get to the to the what the sketch was about it was a lot easier to say hey Here's Stefan and yeah to start yeah He's insane But the thing that always made me laugh about Stefan and people always ask me why I put my hands in front of my face Like that a lot of it was Seth was was I like a person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world Like anybody would be like dude get out of here. You're not doing your job, right? Specifically asked you you get out of here, but instead anytime I would say something you go now Stefan I would start laughing Because you're just being so patient with this maniac who has the simplest job in the world so Yeah, that always made me laugh It was funny because of course you know you were so kind to come back and do my last show But your last show when Stefan when we got married. Yeah, we got married But it was right Anderson Cooper got jilted But it was that crazy thing of why I remember us running back, and then having to watch the video Yeah, it was I'll like just like just a little bit less emotional than my actual wedding No, we got we both got I remember sitting there. We're watching the video, and we're like And Jen are a stage manager, and I'm kind of staying there going like oh Okay, it's going all right And then you kind of like squeeze my hands you could tell I was like mm-hmm And then Jenna our stage manager who was there at my audition. I went till it's been a lot of fun, and I went And I just we both fell apart yeah, I think about right now I'm getting sad we both like fell apart I just started crying and he ran out and then we said goodbye and everything and it's a surprise Kristen Wiig was there she didn't tell me she's gonna be there and she ran out as a surprise and gave me a hug and Oh, it was you know when I have my fun nesting doll who lives on the edge of the desk There is You just shot a movie here in New York here in New York it was so great having here with Amy Schumer Yeah, trainwreck with Amy Amy Schumer wrote and She stars in it and Jed Apatow Directed it and it's gonna be really funny And it's a romantic comedy and one of the great romantic comedy tropes is the every main character has a best friend Mm-hmm you have a great best friend. Yeah, my best friend in the movies LeBron James. Yeah Himself it's LeBron James playing LeBron James LeBron James playing LeBron James, and I'm going to him with dating advice Yeah, yeah, and it was funny because Jed Apatow and Amy and everybody was like I wonder if you know how he's gonna be And you know you don't know he's this great basketball player, but you don't know and and I was like I was with him on SNL. He's hilarious. It's not fair How funny he is and he understands comedy like he understands how to perform comedy right? In a way that a lot of people don't like he just naturally knows how to Make it like I say a thing improvise something that then you can respond to and it heightens Like he just knows how to do that, and he's a really good basketball player Yeah, that's well, I felt the same You know when you when Obama's funny President Obama's funny at the correspondence dinner. Yeah, how are you funny in the president? Yeah? That's not fair No second skill my second skill is so far down. Yeah, I have no second skill if I'm not if I'm not making you guys laugh I am screwed We'll you'll never be screwed. Thank you so much for being here