For our International Audience, Jake is a spokesman for State Farm Insurance. He is actually portrayed by actor Kevin Miles. The previous person who played the role before 2020 was Jake Stone, an actual call center agent for State Farm Insurance. Stone was not murdered by his wife over infidelity allegations. He said "Contrary to recent reports, I am alive. Thank you all for your concern."
Katherine appears on Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) and Seth Meyers appears in casual clothing, a style he adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic, when he had to film shows from his home, and brought forward even when the show returned to the studio. American Auto, like many shows filmed under Covid restrictions since 2020, has previously ignored the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the first evidence that the pandemic did take place in the fictional world the show inhabits.
Seth Meyers truly is from New Hampshire (his family moving there when he was age ten) as he mentions.
Ana Gasteyer and Seth Meyers's overlapping tenures as regular cast members on the long running Saturday Night Live (1975) would be short-lived, specifically season 27 from 2001 to 2002, it Gasteyer's last season and Meyers' first.
Ana Gasteyer would truly appear on Ana Gasteyer/Bomani Jones/Sam Morrison/Danny Carey (2023) of Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) the week before the initial airing in part to publicize the show and Seth Meyers' appearance.