Seth Meyers: Americans Should Get Their News from Us
Far-left host calls show carthatic, says viewers don't need news outlets in Trump 2.0
Seth Meyers could be next.
The far-Left host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” knows that his brand of programming is going the way of the pager and 8-track tape. The situation is out of his control following “The Late Show’s” cancellation, and he’s not taking it well.
“I would worry about myself, like, mental health-wise … Certainly, financially, I could have been fine just doing the show for the last 11 years. But then it was like, ‘Oh, you know what? I feel like there’s something to trying to build a stand-up career and trying to do other things.’”
That’s not all Meyers told Dax Shepard “The Armchair Expert” podcast, one of the format’s more popular programs.
He also broke down his approach to late-night TV, and it won’t surprise many that the word “comedy” didn’t come up as often as one might expect.
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It is a comedy show in a comedy format, but today’s progressive hosts approach their work as if auditioning for MSNBC.
Sometimes you have to squint, hard, to see the attempts at humor.
For Meyers, the show is about catharsis, not just comedy.
“We wanna make a show that’s both cathartic to do and cathartic to watch,” Meyers told Shepard. “Whenever anybody said, ‘You know, I get my news from you,’ and I would always say, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t get your news from me. You should get your news from the news, but you can come to us for a second source.’ Now, I truly believe, yeah, just get your news from us. It’s so gnarly, like you might as well come to a place where there’s some [unintelligible] impressions and some weird tangents.”
That would be a mistake.
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Meyers routinely pushes Fake News to his audience. Consider how he warped the truth behind a “Meals on Wheels” narrative meant to attack then-President Donald Trump. Or, how both he and John Oliver downplayed far-Left Portland violence during the post-George Floyd riots.
Former late-night TV titan Jay Leno recently admonished today’s hosts for putting politics before comedy. Leno said audiences don’t want lectures from their late-night shows. He added that comedy brings people together and hosts like Stephen Colbert pushed part of the country away, hurting their ratings in the process.