He was born on December 28, 1973 in Evanston, IL but he was raised in Bedford, and graduated from Manchester West High School before attending Northwestern University in Chicago. His parents still live in Bedford; his mother, Hilary Meyers is a French teacher at McKelvie Middle School. But Seth has moved on to the Big Apple, after taking a job as a cast member on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" in September 2001.