Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers is a 2014 talk series. It stars Seth Meyers, Amber Ruffin and Wally Feresten.
Seth Meyers brought the deadpan bite of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update to NBC's 12:37 slot in 2014. Each night opens with a monologue that often gives way to A Closer Look, a long segment that dismantles the day's political news with research and a straight face. Meyers, once SNL's head writer, favors the writer's craft over stunts, letting a joke's logic do the work. Guests range from A-list actors to senators, and Fred Armisen's 8G Band supplies the music. The show has become one of late night's sharpest political voices, patient and quietly furious.
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What is Late Night with Seth Meyers about?
Seth Meyers brought the deadpan bite of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update to NBC's 12:37 slot in 2014. Each night opens with a monologue that often gives way to A Closer Look, a long segment that dismantles the day's political news with research and a straight face. Meyers, once SNL's head writer, favors the writer's craft over stunts, letting a joke's logic do the work. Guests range from A-list actors to senators, and Fred Armisen's 8G Band supplies the music. The show has become one of late night's sharpest political voices, patient and quietly furious.
When was Late Night with Seth Meyers released?
Late Night with Seth Meyers was released on 25 February 2014.
How many episodes does Late Night with Seth Meyers have?
Late Night with Seth Meyers has 1827 episodes across 13 seasons.
Where can I watch Late Night with Seth Meyers?
Late Night with Seth Meyers is available on DirecTV On Demand, NBC, Peacock, Peacock Premium and fuboTV.
Where to watch Late Night with Seth Meyers
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, NBC, Peacock, Peacock Premium, fuboTV
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A few thoughts on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth Meyers is a writer first, and the pleasure here is watching an argument built joke by joke. Fans of that approach should read Live From New York, the sprawling oral history of the SNL machine that shaped him. It captures the same restless comic intelligence at its source, in the rooms where the writers who now run late night first sharpened their timing.
Other late-night desks working the same monologue-to-guest formula
Late Night with Seth Meyers keeps the classic setup nearly intact: monologue, desk, a guest chair, a house band. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson show the format's two eras, The Graham Norton Show proves the couch conversation travels well abroad, and The Dick Cavett Show and Late Show with David Letterman gave Meyers the dry, writerly template he still leans on.
Talk shows with a wildly different premise built into the format
Late Night with Seth Meyers still sits behind a desk even when A Closer Look breaks from the format to dig into the day's news. Space Ghost Coast to Coast turns the whole talk-show frame into a cartoon joke, Comedy Bang! Bang! swaps real guests for characters, and Hot Ones and Good Mythical Morning bolt a gimmick onto the same basic conversation.
Sitcoms about the people who make the jokes for a living
Seth Meyers writes from years in an SNL room, and A Closer Look reads like a writer's monologue more than a comedian's rant. Seinfeld built a whole sitcom around a working stand-up, Martin gave its lead a radio show as a day job, and NewsRadio and WKRP in Cincinnati find the same comedy in the studios where broadcasts actually get made.