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Seth Meyers – Mr. Funny

Seth Adam Meyers is an American talk show host, comedian, actor, producer, and writer currently working as the host of NBC late-night talk show ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’ as well as the co-writer, co-creator, and executive producer of Documentary Now!

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Early Life

Seth was born on 28th December 1973 in Evanston, Illinois, to finance sector worker Laurence Meyers, Jr., and French teacher Hilary Claire/née Olson. He grew up in Okemos, Michigan before the family settled in Bedford, New Hampshire.

Actor Josh Myers is his younger brother.

Myers went to Edgewood Elementary located in Okemos and later to Manchester High School West in NH. After graduating from school he went to Northwestern University located in Evanston.

Career

Seth was a member of Mee-Ow Show, an improv sketch group at Northwestern University. He then began his career in improv comedy with Preponderate group at ImprovOlympic and as Boom Chicago’s cast member.

In 2001, Myers joined the cast of SNL. He became the writing supervisor in 2005 and the co-head writer the next year. After the departure of Tina Fey, Seth became the head writer and the co-anchor of ‘Weekend Update.’ He got promoted as solo anchor in 2008 and retained it till 2013. Fey has stated that Seth was responsible for creating the sketches about Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin during the 2008 US Presidential elections.

During this period, Meyers also appeared in movies like ‘See This Movie’, Brenden Fraser starrer ‘Journey to the Center of the Earth,’ and Infinite Playlist, etc. He also hosted a variety of award shows and was the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner keynote speaker. Other prominent ventures include ‘The Awesomes,’ an animated 30-minute series the he created with SNL mate Mike Shoemaker, and ‘The Short Halloween’ a Spider-Man one-off comic that he created with Bill Hader.

Meyers left SNL in 2014 after he got the offer of hosting Late Night talk show on NBC.

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Personal Life

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Seth Meyers – Salary and Net Worth

His annual salary is about $3 million and his net worth is estimated to be $12 million.

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