Doug Abeles

Fashionista.

I can't believe I said Stefan.

It's Stefan.

And it's been a while.

So that was a case where Stefan originally appeared on a sketch.

It was a show that Ben Affleck hosted.

um it it played like pretty well on the sketch on the show on the live show uh but they tried to bring it back um and at the table read it didn't play so well as a sketch and after that table read i went to bill and i said

let's bring stefan onto weekend update oh um what's called that that's called a feature when a cast member will do a character will interrupt the in between the news the jokes about the topical news we'll have someone come on you know as a character and do and interact with the with the update anchors so um so we revived stefan that way and gave stefan kind of new life on weekend

That's where the character really took off.

He recurred a bunch of times.

Many times.

Yeah, that was .

Once we get an update, you're kind of, you know, you're very in it until your segment or your pieces play.

so after weekend update ended it was kind of like we'd all reconvene in our little tiny weekend update office on the ninth floor and kick back open up the beer and exhale for the first time that's a lovely moment

It's a wonderful moment.

If the segment went well, you know?

Or whatever, then of course you're national.

You know, there are also times on the show for sketch writers because the show is so...

has to be precisely timed to end 1 a.m.

There are literally times where, for whatever reason, they're timing the show out in real time, and they'll know at 10 a.m.