Friends that work on Saturday Night Live together, stay together. And create new TV together.
Seth Meyers, Bill Hader, and Fred Armisen stopped by the Today Show and talked with Matt Lauer about a new IFC series that they created. The series is a mockumentary titled Documentary Now. Each episode is set to parody an iconic documentary.
Meyers, Hader, and Armisen worked together on Saturday Night Live and credit the concept of their new series to a sketch they worked on during their last season of SNL.
“There is something wrong with each and every one of you. I just want you to know that. I want to know who the ring leader was in this,” Lauer informed the trio. “It was all together. It was sort of based on a sketch we did our last year on SNL together, this thing called History of Punk. And after we did that sketch Bill was the one who suggested this would make for a really good show, to sort of parody documentaries,” Meyers said.
Although the series is more comical if you are a documentary buff, the show was written to be entertaining for all.
Meyers, Hader, and Armisen also took a moment to share their sentiments about fellow SNL alum, Tracy Morgan’s return to television as SNL host after being critically injured in an accident in 2014.
Last night Hader visited Meyers’ show and discussed his recent trip to Amsterdam to promote his film Trainwreck with Amy Schumer.
Documentary Now premieres Thursday Aug. 20 on IFC.
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