Seth Meyers acknowledged that there’s a lot of uncertainty about late-night TV exhibits following the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. Throughout an look on podcast Armchair Skilled, Meyers mirrored on how the tip of his personal present, Late Night time With Seth Meyers, would affect him.
On the podcast, host Dax Shepard requested if Meyers had any concern that Late Night time may “finish tomorrow.”
“I do,” Meyers admitted. “I imply, solely as a result of it’s such a time we’re residing in, so far as the leisure business. There may be this bizarre factor that I really feel like I shifted from fearing that I wouldn’t be ok. And now my concern is weirdly extra outdoors of my management, which is… simply sooner or later, the ecosystem may not help [late night]. I suppose that’s higher than pondering it’s your fault, however it’s bizarre to not really feel any management over it.”
He added that he tries to deal with what he can management, which is internet hosting the present. “That’s the one half they’re paying you to do. It’s the one half you’re good at,” Meyers mentioned. “All the opposite issues, we have now individuals which might be nearly as good at that as you’re on the factor you do — and don’t fiddle with it.”
Later, co-host Monica Padman requested Meyers about his monetary stability if Late Night time did get cancelled. Meyers mentioned he’s extra fearful about his psychological stability. “I might fear about myself psychological health-wise,” he mentioned. “However I put lots of thought into diversifying my ability set. Definitely, financially, I might have been positive simply doing the present for the final eleven years. However then it was like, ‘Oh, what? I really feel like there’s one thing to making an attempt to construct a stand-up profession and making an attempt to do different issues.’”
He continued, “It’s extra like, ‘Attempt to discover one thing that makes you as blissful as late night time’s making you.’ Nevertheless it’s not simply to have busy work or something. It’s like, ‘Oh, I like this stuff, too.’ And there’s nobody entity that may take all the pieces away without delay, and I feel that’s the scariest scenario to be in.”
Earlier this month, CBS introduced that The Late Present would come to finish subsequent Could, citing “monetary” causes. Though CBS lauded the present for being the top-rated late-night present for 9 seasons, calling it a “staple of the nation’s zeitgeist,” many have speculated that the cancellation is political.
On a current episode, Colbert acknowledged that “now for the following 10 months, the gloves are off.” He mentioned, “I can lastly converse unvarnished reality to energy and say what I actually take into consideration Donald Trump beginning proper now. I don’t actually look after him. Doesn’t appear to have the ability set to be president. Simply not match.”
Trump celebrated the cancellation on Reality Social and claimed that Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts Jimmy Kimmel Dwell at ABC, is “subsequent.” “Nope. No, no. Completely not, Kimmel,” Colbert replied. “I’m the martyr. There’s solely room for one on this cross. And I gotta let you know, the view is implausible from up right here.”
On the identical episode, Meyers appeared on The Late Present to indicate help for Colbert alongside fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver.
