Seth Meyers talks to Advocate.com about the gayest SNL show ever...

Last weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live" with Paul Rudd as host was easily the gayest in the show's 30-plus year history. Some in the blogosphere took offense to some of the sketches which head writer and "Weekend Update" anchor Seth Meyers talks about with By Corey Scholibo of The Advoicate.

Here is an excerpt:

Q. ...I want to talk about last Saturday. Was it a conscious effort on your part to write a very gay episode?
A. This is the honest truth: It really wasn't. That's just not how our show works. We're not a top-down show where we have a meeting on Monday and assign stuff. Everyone goes off and writes their own thing. Certainly it was more than I think anyone expected, but I think with what was in the air and with Proposition 8, I think different people had different ideas. Once that happens it just turns into a meritocracy on the pieces.

Q. ...So all of you come in the room to pitch the sketches, and is there a moment where you are like, Look, a lot of us seem to be doing a lot of gay sketches?
A. To some degree. Not to minimize, it but we are having the same issue this week with Thanksgiving. [Laughs] When you have to do 22 of these shows a year, sometimes you just do the biggest story or whatever everyone is talking about. I will say that it will be much harder with Thanksgiving because they will all look the same, where as with last week there were a lot of different looks.

Then you have "The Kissing Family Scene," (clip above) not a scene that anybody here considered to be about gay rights or gay themes in general. That was written for a previous episode earlier in the year, and that reached its destination because it was heightening a nonsexual, affectionate family. Against a backdrop of everything else we were doing, I guess some people took it to be about that.

Q. Did you conceive the Snagglepuss sketch?
A. That is the thing where you have a new cast member, Bobby Moynihan, and one of the things he auditioned with was Snagglepuss. I can tell you, as a new cast member your radar is always up to find ways to get the stuff you brought with you on the air. As it turned out that was a pretty funny way to get it in. Because bringing Snagglepuss on Weekend Update was going to be a pretty tough sell unless there was some sort of in.

To read the entire interview with Seth, go to Advocate.com.