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"Saturday Night Live&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Weekend Update&amp;quot; is getting a new anchor. A new anchorwoman, to be precise: Lorne Michaels told The New York Times today that Cecily Strong will join Seth Meyers at the desk in this season&amp;#x27;s premiere episode, then eventually transition to solo anchoring. So: Wow. I mean, this is awesome. Cecily is a firecracker, and it&amp;#x27;s amazing to see the comedy equivalent of a gutsy cub reporter win the seat so quickly. Of course, we have to talk about the obvious casualty here: The Girl You Wish You Hadn&amp;#x27;t Started a Conversation With at a Party. After announcing the news, Meyers followed up with a tweet on the subject: As for The Girl You Wish You Hadn&amp;amp;#39;t Started a Conversation with, it&amp;amp;#39;s prob safe to assume that she died somewhere, mid-conversation.&amp;amp;mdash; Seth Meyers (@sethmeyers) September 15, 2013 Or we could just go ahead and give her her own movie. A few more interesting official-change notes from the Michaels interview: &amp;amp;#8212; The longtime SNL producer is considering having Meyers continue to co-host &amp;quot;Weekend Update&amp;quot; even after he&amp;#x27;s moved on to host Late Night. &amp;amp;#8212; There are two more new cast members in addition to the ones we told you about earlier: writer Mike O&amp;#x27;Brien (of the delightful &amp;quot;7 Minutes in Heaven&amp;quot; Web series) will now join the stage cast; comedian Brooks Wheelan is also coming aboard. &amp;amp;#8212; Tim Robinson (above) will leave the stage cast and become a staff writer. Lotsa change afoot in Studio 8H. And BTW, when Cecily goes solo on &amp;quot;Weekend Update,&amp;quot; she&amp;#x27;ll be the first female cast member to read the news(jokes) alone since Jane Curtin did it, from 1976 to 1980. Goodnight, and (how can you not, with this exciting news?) have a pleasant tomorrow! Photo: NBC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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