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Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Seth Meyers, and Bowen Yang joined forces to present the award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special, but before they announced the winner, they directly addressed Michaels, who sat grinning in the crowd at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.