SNL star Meyers visits NU

The Saturday Night Live (SNL) cast member and head writer known best for his Weekend Update skits sent the audience at Blackman Auditorium into fits of hysterics with his combination of old and new stand-up jokes.

“He’s gotten a lot bigger over the past couple years,” said Kappa Sigma president Robbie Sambuca. He added that a combination of Meyers’s opening for Jamie Kennedy two years ago and the increased popularity of SNL this year led to the choice to bring Meyers back.

The seventh comedy night did not sell out until hours before the show. “We knew it would sell out and people were just waiting to buy tickets,” Sambuca said.

The first few jokes in Meyers’s set were a shout out to his previous show. He made fun of Northeastern’s five-year program – suggesting adding a sixth year called “ender” – and returned to the story of the freshman students caught by an undercover cop two years ago while trying to sell marijuana out of a pulley system between floors in Smith Hall.

His jokes stayed on the subject of college for the beginning of the show, discussing furniture (“College is the last time you will ever have sex with a girl on a futon”), study abroad and texting.

One of the jokes which fell flat with the audience was in regards to the late Michael Jackson. “Speaking of black and white, Michael Jackson died this year,” Meyers said to a muted, awkward applause.

Middler political science and economics double major Sean Maloney said he didn’t have any issue with the sensitive subject matter.

“He was from SNL. They kind of push the button,” he said. “It lets you laugh about it.” 

Meyers brought up Saturday night’s SNL season premiere in which new SNL cast member Jenny Slate accidentally swore during her skit in her first episode on the show. He said he told her after the show, “Hey, you’re from Massachusetts, I can’t believe you’ve only said it once.” Meyers also shared stories from the set of SNL about Amy Poehler, Sarah Palin and Ashlee Simpson.

He then brought up the the book and movie series “Twilight.”

“I did not realize that 13-year-old girls were so into vampires,” he said. “If I was a 13-year-old girl I would love vampires too.”

His discussion of the film, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, drew one of the better reactions from the crowds. He reduced the sexual tension between the vampire and human down to “I can’t kiss you because I’ll go like super crazy, so we’ve got to cuddle,” and said he hoped the upcoming sequel “New Moon’s” werewolf transformation would involve wereponies and unicorns to counteract “Twilight’s” infamous sparkle-in-the-sunlight scene.

“When I walk out in the sunlight, the most terrible thing happens. … I get all sparkly and glittery,” he said while impersonating Pattinson. “I would look the way you would (expletive) design your (expletive) math book.”

Freshman international affairs major Amanda Ellis said she thought Meyers’s jokes were appropriate.

“I like Twilight and I still liked it,” she said.

The response to the show seemed overwhelmingly positive, ranging from Green saying she “thought it was hilarious” to freshman mechanical engineering major Emily Augaston declaring, “I love Seth Meyers.” After the positive experience Sambuca had working with Meyers this time around, he said he would be interested in working with the comedian in the future.

He added there were no plans yet for bringing another comedian to perform any time soon, though there might be discussion on a spring comedy night as well.

“I guess just stay tuned,” he said.