Entertainment TV Seth Meyers Congratulates Colin Jost for Beating His 'Weekend Update' Anchor Record on 'SNL' "I've got an everyday job. Old fat cat Jost doing once a week? Rolling out on Saturday and you're all throwing crowns at his feet? No, thank you!" Seth Meyers quipped By Nicholas Rice Nicholas Rice Instagram Twitter Nicholas Rice is an Associate Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial Intern in early 2020, before later transitioning to a freelance role, and then staff positions soon after. Nicholas writes and edits anywhere between 7 to 9 stories per day on average for PEOPLE, spanning across each vertical the brand covers. Nicholas has previous work experience with Billboard, POPSUGAR, Bustle and Elite Daily. When not working, Nicholas can be found playing with his 5 dogs, listening to pop music or eating mozzarella sticks. People Editorial Guidelines Published on October 30, 2021 01:30 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Seth Meyers is congratulating Colin Jost for marking an exciting achievement on Saturday Night Live — well, sort of! Last weekend, Jost, 39, surpassed Meyers, 47, as the SNL cast member with the most appearances anchoring the show's Weekend Update segment. Since joining the segment — which looks at current events through a comedic lens — back in 2014, Jost has now anchored 155 episodes. Jost previously joined Weekend Update as a co-anchor alongside Cecily Strong amid the show's season 39, when both stars took over for Meyers, who left the comedy sketch series to host Late Night with Seth Meyers. Strong, 37, only worked with Jost for the second half of the season, before current Weekend Update star Michael Che took over in fall 2014. Scarlett Johansson Says Her Pandemic Wedding with Colin Jost Was 'Weird' But 'Beautiful' In a "Corrections" segment during his late-night show on Friday, Meyers paused to sarcastically congratulate Jost for the feat. "Congratulations are in order — I hope you guys don't mind that I'm going to take a little time out from Corrections, I would like to congratulate my dear friend Colin Jost who on Saturday passed me as the longest-serving Weekend Update anchor," Meyers said. "155 episodes hosted by Colin Jost and I'm so proud of him." Noting that he thinks Jost and Che, 38, "do a great job" co-anchoring the segment together, Meyers then shared, "A few people have come up to me and said, 'Did that make you sad, having your record broken?'" After laughing, the late-night host continued, "I moved on. Okay? I'm good. On my own terms! And I've got a job. I mean, I've hosted like 1,200 of these while Jost has done his 155. I've got an everyday job. Old fat cat Jost doing once a week? Rolling out on Saturday and you're all throwing crowns at his feet? No, thank you!" Meyers also jokingly added that Jost "has had it easy" as "All his Updates — most of them — [were] during the Trump era, when the jokes wrote themselves."