Meghan McCain is getting real about that super awkward 2019 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
03.10.2023 - 02:57 / deadline.com
Seth Meyers opened his first Late Night show in five months with a long list of thank yous.
The comedian returns to NBC with an hour-long version of A Closer Look, his political segment, in which he touches on all of the news that broke over the summer.
But before he got into Trump indictments and lumpy pillows (see below), Meyers said that he was “grateful” to be back.
“I never take this show for granted but being away from it for as long as I’ve been away from it really hits home how much I love having this as a workplace,” he said.
He thanked the WGA negotiating committee, which includes his friends Mike Schur and Kay Cannon, for their sacrifices to ensure a “fair” deal for the writers. He also apologized for pestering these friends during negotiations.
“I am so happy to be back in a room with my writers. I miss my writers so much. I was so happy to see them this morning, I will admit by lunch I was a little over it. They’re really talented. they just have a ton of opinions,” he joked.
Meyers also thanked his fellow Strike Force 5 co-hosts: Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and John Oliver. “It was great to have them. We talked a lot during the strike and being on the same page with them made a very hard period a lot easier to deal with,” he said.
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He thanked his family for putting up with him, including his son. “I’ll never forget the day this summer where my seven year old came up to me and said not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today I’m not gonna care what he does tomorrow,” he said.
He thanked the audience, both in the room and watching at home. “I know when you do a
Meghan McCain is getting real about that super awkward 2019 appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
Meghan McCain Has Entered the Chat.”“Speaking of late-night stuff, I went on ‘Seth Meyers‘ and it was one of the worst experiences of my life, truly,” McCain told her guest, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, during a conversation about the media, which dropped on Thursday.
Seth Meyers and John Oliver co-headlined a three-night residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.And even though their respective talk shows are back on the air post-strike, the two have still found time in their busy schedules to return to the Upper West Side next year.Starting Jan. 14, 2024 and running all the way up until June 16, the former “Strike Force Five” podcast hosts will conduct a six-show, monthly stand-up comedy residency at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.Fans that attend these live shows can expect a looser version of the hosts than what you typically see on air.“Both delivered punchy, quick-witted sets that wandered a bit, enough to make you want more,” wrote The New York Times’ Jason Zinoman about one of the August shows.
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TV’s bevy of late-night talk show hosts took aim at the strikes in their first monologues in 5 months.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Late night was back in full force on Monday night, and the hosts of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers” were all expected to have something to say about it in their opening monologues. “It feels good to be back,” Colbert said at the start of his October 2 monologue — his first since May 1, the last evening before the WGA strike commenced the following day. “It feels good to be with all of you again here in the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
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The official end of the Writers Guild strike on Wednesday brought a slew of news from the world of late-night television, which was the first to go off the air in May when the writers hit the picket lines.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director When Jimmy Fallon returns to the air in Oct. following the end of the WGA strike, it will continue his 14th year as the host of an NBC late night talk show. The “Saturday Night Live” alum got his late night start by taking over for Conan O’Brien as the host of “Late Night,” which Fallon led from March 2, 2009 to Feb.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Comedy Central is going back to square one in its efforts to find a new host for “The Daily Show.” The Paramount Global cable network is considering a wider array of candidates to take the reins of the program from previous emcee Trevor Noah, according to people familiar with the matter, after having previously identified Hasan Minhaj as a leading possibility. The decision appears to come in the wake of a recent report in The New Yorker in which some of the supposedly autobiographical stories that Minhaj has used in his routines were found to be embellished. Comedy Central declined to comment, as did WME, the talent agency that represents Minhaj.
Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be flashing their smiles on the small screen in no time.
Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are coming back.