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A possible explanation for this is his excessive consumption of recreational drugs. Stefon always touches his face and hair, and it seems like he has frequent anxiety attacks. He appears to be always nervous, as indicated by how he can never keep his hands still and constantly rubs them together. Stefon is a flamboyantly gay "city correspondent" for Weekend Update. However, the film never moved beyond an initial writing stage. Mulaney wanted to cast director Garry Marshall as Lorne Michaels.
The film was intended to be a mockumentary, showing Stefon visiting different New York hotspots as a correspondent for Weekend Update. Mulaney began writing a Stefon feature film before he left SNL. When Meyers' Late Night premiered on February 24, 2014, a Stefon matryoshka doll with a veil embellishment, originally hand-crafted by matryoshka artist Irene Hwang and commissioned for a crew holiday gift, was unveiled as part of the decor of Meyers' desk. Stefon's last regular appearance on SNL was on May 18, 2013, due to Bill Hader's leaving the show. According to Hader, it is "completely ironic" that he played a character like Stefon, because he avoids loud places such as clubs. However, this appearance was much briefer than his others, with his appearance only lasting about 30 seconds. "Still working on it." Īfter being unable to perform the character without breaking for two and a half years, Hader successfully remained in character as Stefon during the season finale of the show's 36th season, with host Justin Timberlake.
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"I have not gotten through a single Stefon update without breaking," Hader says. Mulaney would deliberately change bits of lines just before Hader went on as Stefon and, as a result, some of the more outrageous things that Stefon says are relatively or completely new to Hader.
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Hader, on late-night TV interviews, said that this happens with such frequency because changes are often made to the script up until the live show, and frequently Hader does not see the final cue cards until the live broadcast. Often Hader can be seen suppressing fits of laughter (known as "breaking" or " corpsing"), as some of the more outlandish descriptions are new to him. He stated, "It was so weird that I so assumed it would be cut, and I said, 'When you cut this, can we try it again?' We just thought it was not going to be liked by anyone." However, the character became immensely popular. According to Seth Meyers, "It was a lot easier to just say, 'Hey, here's Stefon.'" During the production for his first appearance on Weekend Update, on the Apepisode, Mulaney assumed it would be cut after rehearsal. The character was instead introduced as a correspondent on Weekend Update the following season, after an invitation from the head of the segment. "It was a long walk to get to what the sketch was about." Initially, Stefon appeared in a 2008 sketch with Ben Affleck titled "Movie Pitch with Stefon," with Stefon portraying the outrageous brother of Affleck's more serious character, David Zolesky however, the idea "barely worked as a sketch," said Bill Hader. Stefon's hair was inspired by the characters in that film, "specifically based in popup club culture in New York City circa 2007". Mulaney decided that Stefon should wear an Ed Hardy shirt, under the assumption that it was made of latex and looked like something out of the Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green film, Party Monster.
The character's mannerisms were based on a barista at a coffee shop in Chelsea, Manhattan, that Hader frequented, whose look and talking style inspired the creation of Stefon.
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One was a club promoter who sent Mulaney an e-mail about a club that "had everything," including "rooms full of broken glass" as one of the highlights. Stefon's segments were inspired by real people Hader and Mulaney had encountered.
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