Colin Jost Named New Co-anchor of SNL’s Weekend Update

Colin Jost
The folks over at NBC‘s Saturday Night Live have announced their replacement for departing and longtime host/co-host of Weekend Update, Seth Meyers. Filling Meyers’ seat will be SNL head writer, Colin Jost (PeekYou profile here, where you can find — among many other things — articles about this story).

Joining Jost at the fake-news desk will be cast member Cecily Strong, who has been co-hosting Update with Meyers since the start of this latest season.

To mark the occasion, we provide you with this updated PeekScore list of the 39th season’s cast; measuring and comparing their various presences and impacts here in cyberspace.

If you click through the items on the below list, you’ll be taken to the PeekYou profiles of the various funnypeople; where you can learn more in depth about each, and even check out some video, and other multimedia goodies. What else were you doing, anyway? Get to clicking.

Rank Picture Name Featured or In the Cast Since Current PeekScore
1

Seth Meyers
2001
8.10 / 10.00
2

Kenan Thompson
2003
8.02 / 10.00
3

Bobby Moynihan
2008
7.59 / 10.00
4

Jay Pharoah
2010
7.45 / 10.00
5

Nasim Pedrad
2009
7.37 / 10.00
6

Vanessa Bayer
2010
7.21 / 10.00
7

Taran Killam
2010
7.19 / 10.00
8

Kate McKinnon
2011
7.19 / 10.00
9

Aidy Bryant
2012
7.15 / 10.00
10

Cecily Strong
2012
7.12 / 10.00
11

Michael Patrick O’Brien
2013
7.07 / 10.00
12

Kyle Mooney
2013
7.06 / 10.00
13

John Milhiser
2013
7.05 / 10.00
14

Beck Bennett
2013
7.05 / 10.00
15

Noël Wells
2013
7.03 / 10.00
16

Brooks Whelan
2013
7.02 / 10.00
17

Colin Jost
2013
7.02 / 10.00
17

Sasheer Zamata
2014
7.01 / 10.00