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

01/23/2014 by Matt Q Comments

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	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

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