( CNN ) -- `` Saturday Night Live '' writer-performer Seth Meyers will take over NBC 's `` Late Night '' show next year when current host Jimmy Fallon moves to `` The Tonight Show , '' NBC announced Sunday . SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels will also be the executive producer of `` Late Night with Seth Meyers . '' He was also named executive producer of `` The Tonight Show '' earlier this year when the network announced Fallon would replace Jay Leno . No premiere date has been announced , but NBC has said Leno 's exit and Fallon 's debut will coincide with the Winter Olympics coverage in 2014 . All three shows will broadcast from NBC 's New York headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza . NBC announced in April that `` Tonight '' would relocate back to New York from Burbank , California . Johnny Carson moved the show there four decades ago to take advantage of Hollywood-based guests and Southern California 's lifestyle . How Twitter helped Fallon get Leno 's job . Meyers , 39 , would be the fourth comedian to host `` Late Night '' since it went on the air in 1982 , starting with David Letterman and followed by Conan O'Brien and Fallon . `` Seth could n't be in better company , '' Michaels said . `` We think Seth is one of the brightest , most insightful comedy writers and performers of his generation , '' NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt said in the official announcement . Meyers has been the frontrunner in speculation about who would succeed Fallon . Like Fallon before him , Meyers anchored SNL 's `` Weekend Update '' desk . Along with being a performer , Meyers is the show 's head writer . Meyers is currently in his 12th season with SNL . `` I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car , '' Meyers said in the NBC news release . `` 12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real estate.Â I hope I can do it justice . '' The NBC announcement did not say when Meyers would leave his SNL duties .
No premiere date has been announced for Bob Greenblatt on `` Weekend Update '' exit and Fallon 's debut coincide with Winter Olympics in 2014 . Like Fallon before him , Meyers anchored Fallon 's `` Late Night '' Leno 's `` Tonight Show '' desk .