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Stefon and Derek Zoolander on Autumn's Hottest Tips
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
On Weekend Update, Seth Meyers asks city correspondent Stefon how visitors can enjoy a family weekend in New York this autumn. Stefon instead recommends a nightclub inside an active crime scene and another in a haunted synagogue, run by an Italian reggae singer and offering a grotesque giveaway that Seth only asks about because his cue card makes him. When Seth tries to wrap up, Stefon brings out Derek Zoolander, who is hosting a Halloween blowout in a neighborhood that turns out to be in the middle of the Hudson River. Zoolander's muddled anti-drug message, confusion about tourists and fond words for a disgraced designer push Seth to end the segment, until the pair show off their new looks and reveal the party benefits Zoolander's absurdly named children's foundation. Won over, Seth offers a donation while Bill Hader repeatedly struggles to keep a straight face.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
A shaved lion that looks like Mario Batali.
You don't need illegal drugs to have a good time. There are plenty of good prescription drugs.
I'm just wearing my new look, Cold Coffee.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Ben Stiller, who hosted this episode, reprised Derek Zoolander from his 2001 film Zoolander. TheWrap's recap presented the character's new pose, Cold Coffee, as the successor to the film's famous Blue Steel.
Script
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- 00:01
Weekend Update Anchor
It's autumn in New York and thousands of tourists will be coming to our city to enjoy what the Big Apple has to offer here With some tips on what they should check out is our city correspondent Stefan
- 00:10
Stefon
Hi
- 00:26
Weekend Update Anchor
Hi, Stefan,
- 00:27
Stefon
uh that was some vacation. We took this summer How's your back
- 00:32
Weekend Update Anchor
so Stefan? Autumn in New York is a special time and Lots of people from around the country will be coming to spend a weekend in the city any tips on how they can have some some family fun?
- 00:45
Stefon
Yes. If you're looking for family fun, look no further. New York's hottest club is uh-huh. Opened in 2010, this active crime scene is the creation of lazily named drag queen, Melvin and Address. Needless to say, this place has everything. Stick balls, pickpockets, cookie crisp. And look who's at the bar, is that Kate Moss? No, it's a Pakistani family that cuts in line at Universal Studios.
- 01:14
Weekend Update Anchor
Stéphane, Stéphane, Stéphane. I apologize if I was unclear on what I wanted.
- 01:21
Stefon
Right, right, right.
- 01:23
Weekend Update Anchor
But most people visiting New York will want the classic New York experience.
- 01:26
Stefon
Right, right, right, right.
- 01:27
Weekend Update Anchor
Can you recommend anything to fit that?
- 01:28
Stefon
Yes, yes. If you're looking for an experience, I've got the place for you. New York's hottest club is located in a haunted synagogue. This upper, lower side hotspot is the creation of Italian reggae singer Rasta Primavera. This place has everything. Brooms, scrunchies, screw heads, a shaved lion that looks like Mario Batali. And make sure to be there this Friday because the first hundred people through the door will win human fire extinguishers.
- 02:16
Weekend Update Anchor
Because it's written on my cue card and only because it's written on my cue card, I will ask what is a human fire extinguisher?
- 02:23
Stefon
It's that thing of when a thin midget paints himself red and then chews Alka-Seltzer until foam shoots at his mouth. Where's the fire?
- 02:38
Weekend Update Anchor
Stefan. Stefan! I am beginning to think you don't work for the New York Chamber of Commerce.
- 02:45
Stefon
Slander. Take it back.
- 02:47
Weekend Update Anchor
You have to go.
- 02:47
Stefon
But I haven't even told you about the big Halloween blowout this year. I have a plus one.
- 02:52
Weekend Update Anchor
I'm sorry, Stefan. I can't go with you. My girlfriend and I are going to a bed and breakfast.
- 02:56
Stefon
Right. Well, I'd invite you anyway, because Ari have a guest, and he's here. Please welcome Welcome, New York's hottest male model, Derek Zoolander.
- 03:23
Derek Zoolander
Am I on the news?
- 03:25
Stefon
Tell them about the Halloween party.
- 03:27
Derek Zoolander
For too long, Halloween in New York has been a quiet, almost religion-y holiday for old people and babies. But that's all about to change. This year, I'm hosting a VIP blowout in New York's hottest neighborhood, Sohohnobohiwo.
- 03:43
Weekend Update Anchor
Where?
- 03:44
Derek Zoolander
South of West Houston below Lower Hoboken.
- 03:50
Weekend Update Anchor
Whoa. So that's the middle of the Hudson River.
- 03:55
Derek Zoolander
Seth, I want to use this party as a message. A message that I want to spread that you don't need illegal drugs to have a good time. There are plenty of good prescription drugs.
- 04:05
Weekend Update Anchor
Derek, this segment is supposed to help tourists.
- 04:08
Derek Zoolander
You want to help the tourists? They're trying to attack our country.
- 04:14
Stefon
God, he's dumb. I love him.
- 04:16
Derek Zoolander
This party is my entry back into New York nightlife. I can't wait to see old friends like John Galliano.
- 04:22
Weekend Update Anchor
John Galliano, the fashion designer who praised Hitler.
- 04:26
Derek Zoolander
We've all accidentally praised Rudolf Hitler on TV, okay?
- 04:30
Weekend Update Anchor
And I think we're done. I think we're done.
- 04:32
Derek Zoolander
What's the matter, Seth Meyers? Jealous?
- 04:34
Weekend Update Anchor
I'm not jealous. I'm not. I don't even want to go to your stupid costume party.
- 04:40
Derek Zoolander
I'm not wearing a costume. I'm just wearing my new look, cold coffee.
- 04:54
Stefon
And I'm wearing my new look, rigor mortis.
- 05:01
Derek Zoolander
that's not sexy Stefan you have to pout your lips and look stupid like Seth
- 05:06
Weekend Update Anchor
I don't have to put up with this
- 05:07
Derek Zoolander
look this party's for charity okay all proceeds go to benefit the Derek Zoolander Foundation for fat kids who are fat but not in a cute way like that fat kid on Modern Family
- 05:20
Weekend Update Anchor
well I really misjudged you guys you two are just trying to help a good cause even though I can't I'd love to make a donation.
- 05:30
Stefon
-"Yay!"
- 05:30
Weekend Update Anchor
-"Step on a Zoolander!"
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