Seth Meyers departs Saturday Night Live

Seth Meyers has departed Saturday Night Live, just weeks before he begins his new job as host of Late Night.

Meyers co-hosted Weekend Update on the NBC sketch-comedy series for eight seasons and was joined for his farewell newscast by SNL alumni Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Bill Hader and Fred Armisen.

They told Meyers they had come to take him “to the other side”.

Meyers called his SNL tenure “the job I always wanted”. He joined the cast in 2001.

He’ll take over at NBC’s Late Night on February 24.