10 Years of Late Night with Seth Meyers: A Brief Oral History
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- To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Late Night with Seth Meyers, which debuted on February 24, 2014, Seth Meyers and the staff who have been with him for the last decade reflect on how the show came to be.
Late Night field producer Amanda Cowper hosts an oral history with Mike Shoemaker, Fred Armisen and several other significant players in the construction of the show.
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Aha! That's why Corrections work. Seth turned the audience into the writer's room.
That is so true!! ❤❤❤
Seth helped me through the pandemic so much.
Same here!
I started watching during the pandemic. I was sent home to work and needed things to listen to.
This is all of us.
Facts
Same here in Germany 👍👍💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸
Seeeeee, you can’t stop corrections. It’s our inside joke and even YOU love it. 100 isn’t enough Seth! It helps everyone feel like a part of your crew, and love you even more..
I absolutely love Corrections, but my favorite part of it is how much Seth loves it too
Corrections Forever! Jackaling for life.
Jackals unite!!
we must pee and mark territory all over!
Corrections is like a hot cup of coco and a warm blanket on a cold day.
A side-effect of "Corrections" is they have less in-jokes in the regular show (which is good).
Seth’s impression of Mikey the shoe was 100% accurate all along. I’m delighted.
I can't tell the difference.
Oooooo Mikey the Shoeee ayyyy
This makes up for the "see me in 2 weeks". 🥰 Love this show, this staff and the kinda host we need right now.
Oh man! How did I miss that? Was waiting at nine pm like a kid with a deadbeat dad just hitting refresh, refresh, refresh, he’ll be here soon, refresh …..
@@monicaharris6398 😂😂 Awww. I have definitely been there. He closed Corrections saying it.
“The amount of A-listers who wanna drink right now and the only thing stopping them is my liver.” 😂 I believe it! It’s both troubling and also CLASSIC comedy.
Live long Set's liver 😂
It makes me so emotional to know Seth was as changed by the pandemic as we were and he loves Corrections and his CZcams commenters as much as we love him. ❤🥺
The sense of community a silly little online segment has created is truly magical. the inside jokes make us all feel connected. ❤
Also, I'm your 69th comment like. Nice.
Agree! 💙🐾🐾
I love the Corrections community ❤
"He doesn't do impressions... at least he didn't then."
* clutches chest *
Impressions Camp was a LIE?!?!?!
That's why he had to go to the impression camp.
I don't think there was any indication he went there as a child. My understanding is that they must have shipped him off to impressions camp when they realized this dud couldn't do impressions. Now he's a well honed machine.
Not a lie, an impression of someone who believes they're telling the truth.
impressions Camp was Peak-Lockdown-No-Audience-Seth-And-A-Camera laptop musings which stole my heart and stirred my loins
He definitely has to work on his "Mikey The Shoe" impression. Also Jackals are only "people" during the day.
“I showed my wife this and she said it wasn’t funny at all” I have never felt more SEEN
Thanks to all of you for this.
I am one of those European who wakes up every morning with a closer look and a coffee lol
Thanks for the attic and thanks for corrections...
Thanks for the laugh,
Thanks for making us a part of an international family,
And amber is right, we can feel the niceness and the love you all share and reflect back on us.
I rarely comment but needed it today.
Yes, yes, yes! Wish I could like your comment repeatedly! So true, the niceness is sincere and real, audiences CAN tell. Another reason I don’t watch another show whose host is less real. Our gratitude and enthusiasm for the show makes it feel like a decent, positive collective that doesn’t exist a lot these days.
Hear hear! Love and congrats to Seth and the whole team from Ireland!
PS. I especially love Corrections - it always amuses me!
I am one of the Europeans who watch Seth in the morning as I eat my breakfast. He helped me deal with the Trump Presidency and all the fall out afterwards. The Late Night hosts were the only ones able to tell it like it was and not worry about trying to appease both sides. That made me feel like I wasn't totally insane or, more importantly, alone
November is Coming Coming Coming! We just need the 80 mill to come back, see about the electoral and done with the Orange Menace!
Mikey the shoe and Baez doubting Seth’s impression skills.... all he needed was one stay at camp and now he’s the master!
Except for Australian accents. They're his achilles heel 😅
I suddenly realized I’m always so thankful to have the Late Night with Seth Meyers and Seth Meyers to lift me up in this Dumpster Fire world we live in right now, but this video of a podcast made me realize that I should be, and will be from now on, grateful for ALL of the talent that makes this uplifting magic happen. So thank you to all of the staff of Late Night, and Seth for helping me through the last 9 years.
Seth is an empathetic, curious, kind, funny, well-spoken person who is truly at his best when he is laughing kind of at someone or something and somehow everyone is ok with it and in ok the joke. It’s some sort of kindness-magic effect he has put in this whole production.
I’ve seen normally super shy stars truly enjoying themselves and also the Nathan Lanes and Martin Shorts of the world having a fabulous stage for their huge personalities simply in seth’s interview.
Seth: no notes.
Corrections is truly the most amazing thing to come out of the pandemic.
The Jackels are relentless
Preach!
@@charlesgallagher1376 UMMM, it's "jackals."
are they over now?
@@tomshea8382 What do you call a jackal to other jackals? A jack-all.
Seth is absolutely the best interviewer in late night - no comparison.
True that.
no wounder he got the job beating fallon and conabnn the barbarian lol seth loves his oral lol
He's good, but so is Colbert.
@@Ceelle2 I do enjoy Colbert!
also seems like down to earth dude, and I love that he cares about us, the jackals.. absolutely the best team and late night show. :)
Loving jackal hearts to you, Seth! Stay wild ~ we love you
💕 🐾
Don't know how I would have gone through the pandemic if it weren't for that damn attic. This is my favorite show. Much love from Brazil.
Love when he breaks the fourth wall and interacts with the audience when a joke bombs.
I miss those Thorn Birds books! Attic shows were so comforting in the Pandemic.
For the 20th anniversary of the show, we should all mail copies of Thorn Birds to Seth. But hollow them out, and put Mac Tonight figurines inside. . .
On March 31 2020 I tweeted to the Seth Meyers account the fact that the attic bookshelf prominently included a copy of the Thorn Birds in hardcover. It seemed so unlikely to me -- that he would have read and kept a copy of that 1970s book -- that I had to comment. I don't know if that tweet of mine was the impetus for the whole Thorn Birds craziness that followed, but just hoping/thinking that it might be was honestly one of the things that helped get me through the early stages of the pandemic. So I don't know if I can factually take credit (or blame), but thinking it might be true is a lot of fun for me. The weird community that developed during that time was a godsend. And of course, go Corrections!
@@JeffRLord I am sure that Seth took note of your comment, decided to run with it by bringing in an ever-increasing number of copies, and then that inspired him to use the stuff around his in-laws' home, which brought us the Sea Captain, and the rest is history! Jeff, you are one of our nation's (The Jackal nation) heroes!
Even when at my worst, Seth is the only one who can make me laugh ... his facial expressions are gold ❤
He is so laid back in a subtle way
👍😊
I love when a joke fails because I can’t wait to see his reaction.
When Canada couldn't get A Closer Look, it was so depressing. Love to who ever got it back for us. I enjoy it very much when Wally or a writer or Fred does a bit. I love what you all do; it's been uplifting. Thank you, thank you, thank you to the entire staff. ❤
I just thought they were in a long break or something 😂 I was happy to have a backlog to watch.
Seth and his writers appreciate the role that silence and pauses take in truly intelligent comedy. Thanks so much for never patronising your audience. I’m in the UK and a total fan. If I want to know what’s going on in the US, I go to “A Closer Look”. When the program takes a break it leaves a major hole in my week.
Being enamored by late night talk shows dating back to Johnny Carson, I have to say that Late Night with Seth is my favorite. And now I know why - the back of house kindness shines under the lights. This is the key ingredient to a great show. Seth is the perfect host, putting guests at ease and the perfect boss by spotlighting his phenomenal staff who are crucial to the show's excellence. Little changes, like not returning in the stuffy suit and tie, gives us a relaxed atmosphere where the serious and the not so serious can be absorbed.
Don’t forget those killer impressions!
Our little Seth is improving by leaps and bounds in this department. Such a versatile impressionist. @@sunshine3914
We finally know what Mikey da Shoe looks like 👍 😆 Happy Jackal
100% I thought he was fake like Shoemaker!! Just characterrs created for sketch comedy and they are real people. I'm glad to finally see a photo of them!
Spot on!!! I can finally put a face on my yarn-board per the 'Wally Two-Trees Coup Attempt".
timestamp?
@@nonopeno9214 5:00
I know, right? So fine to get the straight skinny on the crew, in their voices, in black n white from behind the curtain. Adoring Jackel in heaven with this.
That’s the feeling of the casual dress… when Mr. Rodgers gets home and changes his dress shoes in for loafers.
Rogers*
[Do not confuse Fred Rogers w/ Aaron Rodgers! That's a serious insult.]
its time for a closer look..........at the last ten years
I loved the attic shows.🥰🥰 So much parasocial bonding with ALL the talk show hosts during COVID.
The Thorn Birds bits were priceless.
The pic of the teeth and googly eyes for the discussion of Corrections was perfect
Correction: those were Giuliani eyes and teeth
I love this show so much. Watching this through the pandemic was one of the things that felt like an anchor in a storm. During the pandemic I was hit by a car and spent an inordinate amount of time doing monotonous physical therapy to rebuild my strength, and watching/listening to this show during my morning PT was my way of feeling a sense of normalcy in a very abnormal world.
I don’t remember the last time I watched the show at its air time. I’ve been religiously watching it the next day on CZcams for years.
I used to this show to fill a void for late night comedy …but now I have become a regular CZcams listener(corrections used to be the first thing I listen to every Friday morning on my way to work as a teacher )and the show helped me get through a lot of hard times in my life and I’m very appreciative for this show
Oh, ok I also used to listen to corrections and then I wised up and started sitting down to watch it. It’s mostly sight gags and Seth’s exasperated looks that make me laugh… but imagine now you have 100 episodes to watch!!
@@canadianhappyinitalytruest6556 the crazy thing is corrections. I’m caught up on because I stay consistently watching and waiting for corrections but when it comes to the regular show for me I wait till like 8 PM when it first popped up on CZcams and catch it then.
Fellow teacher here. Corrections is weekly therapy 😜
@@kristenluevanos3048 That is how I know I made it to the end of the week
Seth is the only celebrity I feel like I know. He has such a kind energy at the same time as being THE funniest person on TV, and it’s broken down my barriers to parasocial connections. I love closer looks, I enjoy the guest interviews, and I treasure the comedy genius of corrections, which feels to me like the most hilarious and cosy piece of art on the internet. Through the pandemic, Seth maintained his warm connection with his audience like no other late night host. In times of great personal stress and anxiety, Seth was the friend I could call who would make me feel better. I’ve seen corrections straight through at least 5 times. Sitting with a family member in great physical and emotional pain, after talking them down from a ledge and singing them to sleep, I recently turned on a random corrections episode to calm down. It made me feel like a person again, and reminded me that the world has a lot of good in it, in a way that saccharine and trite inspiration porn or religious works have never done. You don’t know me, but if you’re reading this, thanks for being a friend.
Kudos to you for that. Finding hope and good in the world is so important for us all, as well as friends and family willing to talk others down from a ledge.
You can tell this show is built on a foundation of positivity. From the top-down, this show is what I think everyone dreams for in a job. The dream of being able to go to work, enjoy who you work with, and do good work too. Thank you for showing the world that you can build something special with kindness, an open mind, and not taking yourself too seriously.
I love this. And as a British jackal corrections saved my mental state. Like many folks. I lost my dad in Jan 2020 and worked in the hospitals in the uk before I burnt out. I found my people!
Seths genuine approach to interviewing guests where you can see he genuinely enjoys interacting with everyone who comes on is a delight. He's not pervy or full of innuendo comedy he's witty and funny as hell.
Love love love jokes seth can't tell with Amber and jennie it's just fantastic and enjoy it all.
I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for all of your hard work. I hope you're in a better space now ❤
"i thought, 'this can't be true,' and then i...never googled it" i believe you, amber 😂
First I was like... Noooo way. Then I was like that... sounds...about right!
❤ amber so much
Man, Late Night with Seth Meyers seems like a great place to work.
I loved learning that "being a nice person" was one of the criteria they used to hire people. It makes me feel like maybe good CAN overcome evil.
How is this not called: “Late Night With Seth Meyers: A Closer Look”?
I think that would be harder to search for.
This way we can just search: "Seth Meyers Oral"
I've watched Late Night with Seth since the first episode, when I was 14. Growing up on A Closer Look has shaped a lot of my approach to processing political news, and I think it really gave me the inclination to not just read the juicy headlines, but to dive into the whole story. Thank you to the whole Late Night team for making me a more considerate person.
Thank you. Everyone. Crew, Seth, and everyone that watches it with me and makes it so fun.
Seth makes interviewing seem so effortless. Hard to believe there was any question about his ability.
Damn, why am I getting emotional? Congrats, Seth and the rest of the crew, for continuing to evolve and succeed. Thanks for putting in the hard work to make me and many others laugh every week.
I'm a bit emotional too, reading all the comments from other viewers who, like me, thank Seth and all his wonderful team for the show and for the pandemic period in particular. It felt good and comforting to know we were all going through it at the same time. I admire how Seth and Mikey the Shoe have built such a lovely team, you can feel the love and support and gratitude these people have for one another and it just makes the show so much better (especially when Seth ribs the writers because you just know it's all in good faith!)
Thank you for having put this on CZcams, paired with such wonderful pictures, it's gonna sustain all of us, Seth's fans, waiting for the show to be back on air in two weeks ❤❤❤
Canadian here (Pacific standard time). Seth's Closer Look usually gets posted around 6PM here, which is perfect for dinner time laughter. My daily routine including getting ready for work in the morning and even dinner time revolves around Late Night with Seth Meyer, and I didn't even realise what an integral part this show is to my life until this video went up.
The only late night show I can watch full-through
For me that was Amber Ruffin, but I go through withdrawals if I don't get my closer look every week. I also look forward to the opening monologue, except for the very last bit where he explains that that was the monologue, he shouldn't have kept saying that every time. I watch John Oliver's main story too most weeks, and he's just as funny, but I've never seen a full episode. Even with SNL I only watch Weekend Update.
@@Ducky69247For new viewers, yes, he does.
Same. I never watch Colbert that way.
This show saved my sanity during the lockdown times.
I love the not-quite-normal steeped in whimsy y'all have created. You're genuinely kind energy is so needed and appreciated!! 🖤✨️
Seth is the only late night host that doesn‘t make me cringe. Well…at least not in a bad way.
❤❤😂😂❤❤😮😮❤❤😂
Him and Colbert are the best in the business. But that said, Colbert's Trump impression sucks
Conan was the best when it comes to cringy that doesn't make you cringe.
I like Conan though he is no longer a lnh now but he will ever live on as one of the goat lnh.
You make me cringe.
As a jackal, I am very happy that (a) Corrections is appreciated by everyone, its my favorite CZcams episode that i wait for it every week, and (b) now i know how Mike Shoemaker looks like and sounds like. He has unfairly portrayed by Seth Meyers in Corrections.
#JusticeForShoemaker
"Steeped in Whimsy": the new unisex perfume from Seth Meyers. Also try "Magic Marker Memories" from Wally.
I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate Seth. Closer Look helped get me through the pandemic and so much more. He's so funny and so cool to his jackals. The episodes where there was no crowd were my favorite, but all of it is good. Thank you Seth and the people who do this site. I've probably listened to every Closer Look at least 5 times each in the last 4 years.
It's so refreshing to see not-animated real photos.
I started watching Seth near the beginning of A Closer Look and would typically just watch that on YT the next day. Then the pandemic hit and his authenticity and general craziness shown through so much that I watched everything he put up on YT since. Especially Corrections. Especially especially Corrections. I'm an unashamed Jackal and each week of hiatus/vacation that Seth takes pains me since I'll miss so much joy throughout the week. Thank you so much for a quality show. Seth and his entire crew are the best!
shone*
I’ve watched every A Closer Look and every Corrections. You help me feel less crazy in a crazy world.
Seth is beloved and he loves his work. A luckier guy would be hard to find.
Seth motivated me to complete my Chikdren's Book, LIVE FREE OR TAI. It is about my calico cat (Tai) that was missing for 5 yrs in NH and i found her on craigslist. Release Fall 2024. Thank you. 🐾🐯
Corrections has been on for 3 years. I can't believe it 😢 😲. Corrections has become a crucial part of the show. I don't know where I would be without it
Seth, I'm 67, my daughter's are 27& 23, we are big fans, also fans of SNL. Me, an SNL fan from the beginning, I was 18, my girls have been raised with SNL and watch when it's on. As for Late Night, every damn show!! We love you Seth. Now, where's the Captain!!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
People don't come to seth for breaking news.
*Proceeds to get ice cream with the President*
Poehler got some pull!!!
Also: Apparently first response from Trump campaign team about the dossier.
To be fair, it was only one scandal out of hundreds.
He made it cool to be a jackal.
I had given up on late night right around the pandemic...seth made me a fan again.
What a beautiful gift to all of us who love Seth and the show. Thank you for this❤❤❤❤
"I want [Corrections] to be the wedge between two people who love each other." 👌
"Terribly in love" describes us out here in YTland too. Thanks Seth & Crew. We really appreciate all you do.
Congratulations on 10 years of Excellence! I toast you with my Jackals mug!! The full 35 seconds of Seth in the Rudy-glasses and teeth perfectly illustrates the shows willingness to do call-back after call-back on jokes that should die, but no. Every time the show goes on hiatus I feel like Frisbee with separation anxiety, waiting to see and hear a friend return. Black vs Lesbian... thanks for that, Fonzzy.
Yes, Seth soothed my anxiety through the pandemic. I took a week off from work, staycation, the last week in March 2020, when I went back to office building, it was completely deserted, and my boss said, 'grab your computer and go home. No one can be here.' F*ckin crazy times! I had cut my cable after my Seattle Seahawks won the Super Bowl 2014...all I had was CZcams. Thank you, Seth and team!!🙏🙌🫶💕
I love this show so much. But more than that, I love the community that has been created in the comment section.
❤ The 10-year celebration clips have been phenomenal.
As cool as it is finally hearing Mikey the Shoe's real voice, I was still hoping for it just to be Seth's impression.
I agree that Seth is the best interviewer in late night.
Let’s go for ten more years
we Canadians watch Seth and especially enjoy 'A Closer Look'...Long may you run Thanks !
Not just europe you have a fan here in Malaysia where CZcams is the only place I can enjoy your content 😊
Another European who watches Seth first thing in the morning here, genuinely get most of my US news from the show and love how it’s sincere when it needs to be and silly when that’s needed too. I do hope shows like this continue to evolve in the streaming era, I pay for CZcams Premium and a lot of the attraction is getting to see the best bits of this show every weekday morning. I would love if you did an uncensored version for us though!
We love your show seth meyers
Totally worth going to find pt. 2 of this (on the Late Night podcast). No pictures, but the voices are enough-and mesh well with the images in this video/doc. You'll get to hear from: Scollins, the pair of security guards...even Wally ! This helps me get through the sad jackal time until we get a new ep. of Late Night Seth.
I live in Australia and Seth makes my day! First thing in the morning, youtube search and clutch a coffee while watching Seth. Thankyou for all the effort you and the team put in to produce this show. BTW if Seth needs a hand with his Australian accent let me know, it is currently fucking horrible mate!
or is it the good coffee or the wild life around you ! Hi down under!
GOAT late night host. He helped and grew with us during the pandemic and the presidency, and whatever comes next, feels like a friend, along with all the writers. Always killing it.
I just spent the last 5 minutes of this crying.
This team makes me proud to be a fan. Thank you all.
Not just Europe! I'm in New Zealand, I watch after lunch too 🎉
Hope a Kea enjoyed it :)
Good to finally see Mikey Da Shoe.
Also good to hear how much the staff love it there - you can sense it watching the show.
100 more Corrections!
Beloved. Describes Corrections perfectly! Thank you Seth, Crew and fellow Jackals.
While the other LNCs have all settled into their formats, Seth still experiments. I appreciate that a lot. He has seized the crown.
I am *so* glad I watched this!
Thank you Seth, crew and writers!
Nice homage to a great team. Thanks for keeping us sane in a mad, mad world.
I thought I was the only one who feel I was boosted up during the Pandemic- and here we are! A Community. Wow!
SETH, ALREADY MISSING YOU!! Come back from spring break ASAP 😜😜😜
CORRECTIONS starts at 44:50
I absolutely love your entire staff! Jokes Seth Can’t Tell absolutely crushes every single time! Lesbians v Blacks… absolutely genius. lol! 🥰
I like how Shoemaker refers to Seth’s Jackals as “a certain contingent of fans”. We all really felt the same as Seth did about the show going back to a studio audience. I love what ACL has become with the help of Corrections. The circle created between Seth, his shows and his Jackals is making for something truly unique, amazing and incredibly entertaining to watch and really be a part of.
The CZcams access is a separate thing, I’ve never “watched” you on nbc tv. I have followed all your youtubery since pandemic. I come from theatre so I’m in heaven with this behind the scene and before the curtain deep dive. Love, justa nuther jackel
I love this man... this team... legends!
Thank you Amanda and team.❤ This was so special.
My most memorable historical event was when those two little boys marched out of that little attic door, without saying a word and with mischievous grins, one holding a flag?, hands balled up into little fists, like they had been happy little prisoners that were now escaping the bondage of The Attic, marching wordlessly out stage right-just like Seth could not do.🤣❤
10 years in, Thank you!
More Amber! Where's her show?!
Anyone else think the narration was Sarah Koenig? Just me? That is a compliment to the narrator! Really enjoying listening to this and learning about the show's history! ❤
The best late night show! Period.
It might be predictable but here goes. You have a devoted fanbase, i am one of them and add my voice to that chorus. You are the best presenter, interviewer on late night, love the fact that you are intellectually very strong, a good person, funny both by skill and instinct and that makes your show better and always you share the limelight with your writers which meant that they are loved as you are. Thank you to you and your whole team for the program you bring. May you and your family as well as every single person on your team flourish and go from strength to strength. You all bring goodness in our homes. Thank you very much and best wishes.
Oh! I forgot to thank you all SO MUCH for this. Retrospectives of favorite shows are awesome.