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"Late Night with Seth Meyers! The 39-year-old Saturday Night Live star will be taking over Late Night when Jimmy Fallon heads to The Tonight Show, NBC announced Sunday, May 12.\r\nMeyers will take over the 12:35 a.m. time slot sometime next year. The New York-based talk show will have Lorne Michaels as executive producer, who is also the executive producer of SNL.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car,&amp;quot; Meyers, who has starred on SNL for 12 seasons, joked in a statement to Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;We think Seth is one of the brightest, most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation,&amp;quot; said NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. &amp;quot;His years at SNL&amp;apos;s Weekend Update desk, not to mention being head writer of the show for many seasons, helped him hone a topical brand of comedy that is perfect for the Late Night franchise.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAccording to The New York Times, Meyers will continue to appear on SNL until he takes over Late Night. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t want to make any broad pronouncements about how the show is going to be, whether it&amp;apos;s going to be the same or different,&amp;quot; Meyers said of taking over Fallon&amp;apos;s show. &amp;quot;But I have to draw on my background in improvisational comedy and sketch comedy and stand-up comedy and try to find some mix of that.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nNBC confirmed reports on April 3 that Fallon, 38, would be replacing Jay Leno, 63, as the host of The Tonight Show. &amp;quot;Congratulations Jimmy,&amp;quot; Leno said in a statement. &amp;quot;I hope you&amp;apos;re as lucky as me and hold on to the job until you&amp;apos;re the old guy.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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