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Is Bill Hader Planning a Stefon Movie?

Find out what the funny man said about bringing back his legendary SNL character

By Marc Malkin Jun 30, 2015 1:15 PMTags
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Don't go looking for Stefon anytime soon.

Bill Hader tells me that he has no plans on bringing his legendary Saturday Night Live character to the big screen.

"I don't think you'll ever see a Stefon movie," he told me while promoting his new comedy Trainwreck (in theaters July 17). "It's just nice the way it lives on [Weekend] Update."

Stefon made his debut as Seth Meyers' city correspondent in 2010.

"We keep toying with the idea of Stefon showing up at [Late Night With Seth Meyers] and being like the naggy wide with the dog…and bothering him," Hader said.

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Hader did offer up what Stefon would say about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on gay marriage.

"I think Stefon was happy," he said. "I texted Seth yesterday and I said, 'Hey, we're legal in all 50!' And he tweeted that."

In Trainwreck, Hader plays a sports doctor who falls for a magazine writer (Amy Schumer) not to keen on monogamy.

"I did learn how to do a knee surgery," Hader said. "When I'm doing the knee surgery the guy next to me is like the best knee surgeon in the world and he was assisting me. And it really just is a hunk of metal—a metal knee—and you put glue on it and you put it where the knee should me and you then you bang it in with a hammer. I go, 'That's it?' And he goes, 'Yup, man, that's pretty much it.'"

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