Seth Meyers Reveals How SNL Made Him Think Obama Could Win

Seth Meyers just described the moment he realized Barack Obama would win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.

In the latest episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, Meyers looked back to the crowd’s response to then presidential hopeful Obama in 2007, when he appeared briefly in Saturday Night Live’s cold open sketch.

“The thing I remember is the way the audience reacted when he was there,” Meyers said on the podcast, which he hosts alongside Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone. “It was the first time I thought, oh—he’s gonna win.”

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