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"Seth Meyers will take over as the next host of Late Night on NBC, succeeding Jimmy Fallon who is heading to The Tonight Show, the network announced Sunday.\nMeyers, who is currently a head writer at Saturday Night Live where he hosts the \"Weekend Update\" segment, will take over Late Night in the spring of 2014 when Fallon replaces Leno as the host of the Tonight Show. The show, to be called Late Night With Seth Meyers, will be taped in New York and produced by Meyers' longtime boss Lorne Michaels.\n\"We think Seth is one of the brightest, most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation,\" Bob Greenblatt, the chairman of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement. \"His years at SNL's \u2018Weekend Update\u2019 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.\"\nThe news comes a little more than a month after NBC announced Fallon's move to The Tonight Show and ends a period of uncertainty about the succession plan for NBC's late night shows. In an interview with The New York Times, Michaels said that Meyers was \"the only name that kept coming up\" for consideration. Meyers will be just the fourth person to host the show since 1982, following in the footsteps of Fallon, Conan O'Brien and David Letterman.\nIn a statement, Meyers noted his enthusiasm for the new role and the opportunity to continue to work with Michaels \u2014 fittingly, with a joke. \"I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car,\" said Meyers. He continued, \"12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate. I hope I can do it justice.\"\nDo you think Meyers is the right person to take over for Fallon? Share in the comments.\nPhoto via Getty Images Entertainment, Brad Barket"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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