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"  It&amp;#039;s an election year, and\u2014let&amp;#039;s face it, America\u2014things could be better! Luckily, we&amp;#039;ve got Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live&amp;#039;s head writer and host of &amp;quot;Weekend Update&amp;quot; (and its prime-time election specials, September 20 and 27), to make a faltering economy and bipartisan rancor something to laugh about. Meyers, 38, isn&amp;#039;t just a skilled satirist, he&amp;#039;s also a bold one. (Four years ago on his watch, Tina Fey mocked Sarah Palin\u2014to her face!) The SNL job is an important post, but it&amp;#039;s also a grind, famous for its up-all-night writing sessions and absurd stress levels. But if you&amp;#039;d expect Meyers, a New Hampshire native and Northwestern graduate, to relax in his time away from Studio 8H, guess again. In his off-hours, he does up to five stand-up gigs a week. Thankfully, his longtime lawyer girlfriend, Alexi Ashe, appears to be the understanding type. Here, Meyers talks about Sarah \u00ADPalin, losing his virginity, and why he&amp;#039;s never allowed to complain about work.  ELLE: Tell me about your first time. Seth Meyers: The only thing I&amp;#039;ll tell you about my first time is that I lied to the girl&amp;#039;s face\u2014and told her it was not my first time. ELLE: Were you a late bloomer? SM: My first time was way late, but not super late. It was college. But based on how soon kids are having sex today, to have lost your virginity in college in the early &amp;#039;90s is like a 50-year-old man losing his virginity today. ELLE: Could you date a woman who doesn&amp;#039;t think you&amp;#039;re funny? SM: Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It&amp;#039;s not like I&amp;#039;m handy. My girlfriend&amp;#039;s cousin is married to a contractor. He&amp;#039;ll show up at the house with a tool belt and a drill, and he&amp;#039;ll go around fixing everything\u2014while I&amp;#039;m playing video games. Basically, if you&amp;#039;re not laughing at me, you&amp;#039;re definitely out there looking for better options. ELLE: What kind of lawyer is your girlfriend? SM: She&amp;#039;s a human rights lawyer. She works for the Brooklyn district attorney fighting sex trafficking. It really takes away my ability to say I had a hard day at work. ELLE: You&amp;#039;ve tweeted about The Bachelorette. I take it you watch together? SM: I watch it with my hands over my face, just peeking through my fingers. I can&amp;#039;t believe how emotionally raw it is! Seriously, on Sunday nights we&amp;#039;d watch that and Breaking Bad. I&amp;#039;m like, Those are the two most intense shows on television.  ELLE: Has The Bachelorette given you any insight into women? SM: I promised my girlfriend that at no point would I ever look her in the eyes and say, &amp;quot;You get me.&amp;quot; I feel like &amp;quot;You get me&amp;quot; is that show&amp;#039;s catchphrase. Which is so great, because those people definitely don&amp;#039;t know each other well enough to get them. ELLE: Has a woman ever made you cry? SM: Well, I&amp;#039;m just going to get this out of the way: I&amp;#039;m a crier. When my girlfriend and I talk about being happy, I&amp;#039;ll get choked up, which I think is the greatest gift you can give a girlfriend. ELLE: I thought an engagement ring was the greatest gift\u2026. SM: I do see that in my future. When in my future\u2014that&amp;#039;s less clear. But I do see it. Until then, I&amp;#039;m going to do a lot of crying to fill the time. ELLE: Could you date a woman whose politics you don&amp;#039;t agree with? SM: I&amp;#039;ve argued with ex-girlfriends about politics. Mercifully, not with this one.  ELLE: Will Sarah Palin return to SNL? SM: I don&amp;#039;t know. You don&amp;#039;t want to force the issue. She would need to be in the news for us to even start discussing the idea. That said, if Mitt Romney picked her as his running mate, there wouldn&amp;#039;t be a happier guy in television. ELLE: Some people felt Tina Fey&amp;#039;s impersonation of Palin was sexist. Do you understand that critique? SM: When we do stuff on the show that feels like ad hominem attack, it never works. That impersonation resonated because Tina looked and sounded like her and said the sort of things she was saying. There have been times we&amp;#039;ve probably portrayed people in ways that were less fair. That wasn&amp;#039;t one of them. ELLE: Anthony Weiner is reportedly talking about running again. Can you understand why a man would text a photo of his junk? SM: I talk about this in my act. It&amp;#039;s incredibly low reward. No woman would be excited about seeing that on her cell phone. And it&amp;#039;s incredibly high risk, because the woman most likely to recognize your genitals is the woman who would be angriest if it is your genitals\u2014and that&amp;#039;s your wife.  ELLE: Why do Republicans seem so obsessed with female reproductive rights? SM: It&amp;#039;s hard for me to say. When you work with the sort of really strong women that I work with, the idea that anyone would want to make decisions for them is hard to wrap your head around. ELLE: What will you miss most about having Kristen Wiig at SNL?  SM: Every time you thought she couldn&amp;#039;t have another move in her bag of tricks, she&amp;#039;d pull one out. Last year she made up Rebecca Larue, the flirting expert\u2014  ELLE: I remember that. She tossed her hair a lot and kept touching you.  SM: It was such a good portrayal of that kind of girl. In the back of my head, 15 percent of me was like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m gonna fuck Kristen tonight! She is feeling me!&amp;quot; ELLE: What did you learn about marriage from your parents? SM: Half the time parents are showing you how to do it, and then the other half they&amp;#039;re showing you the things you should never do. My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father&amp;#039;s ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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