Who Did Weekend Update With Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers tells the story of his second son's dramatic birth in his Netflix stand-up special Lobby Baby. David Schnack/Netflix hide caption

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Seth Meyers tells the story of his second son'south dramatic birth in his Netflix stand up-up special Antechamber Baby.

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It's not piece of cake to find the funny in today's catastrophic news cycle, simply that'southward Seth Meyers' job. The host of NBC'southward Late Night host is used to facing fear with sense of humor. And that's why, later his wife gave birth to their 2nd son in the lobby of their apartment building, Meyers appeared on Goggle box the next day to tell the story.

"Information technology should exist noted that I admittedly could have taken that Monday off," Meyers at present says. "But I'yard very happy that at that place is that sort of timestamp episode where I can i mean solar day show Axel, 'This is not even, yous know, 2 days after you were built-in and this is your dad on Television telling the story.' "

Meyers writes almost fear — and how we acknowledge or ignore it — in the new new children's book, I'm Not Scared, Yous're Scared! The story is well-nigh a deport who's afraid of everything, and his best friend, a rabbit, who loves risky adventures. Past the end of the volume, the carry has shown that when he'southward called on to have the courage to rescue his rabbit friend, he can do what needs to be done.

"It's nigh our relationship with fear," Meyers says. "It'southward about the moments when y'all have to push by it. It's near the moments when perhaps you should listen to your fear a little scrap more. And hopefully it'southward a book that parents can read to their kids and then talk about."

Meyers has satirized issues in the news always since he became an anchor on Sat Night Alive's "Weekend Update" segment in 2006, a position he held until 2013. He'southward likewise been head writer on SNL. Only he says that his favorite thing to do it is to read to his two sons — even though that's gotten a flake more challenging lately.

"This terrible matter is starting to happen, which is at present my boys want me to make up a Batman and Robin story every night, and it's so exhausting," he says. "Simply I love reading books to them, especially when it's a volume where they but get quiet and focused. I love cipher more than than seeing the faces of my children paying attention to a story."

Interview highlights

On writing a book about fearfulness during the pandemic

It was a weird time for us, because my wife and I were far more agape during COVID than my kids were, just because they were, I call up, too young to fully process it. Just there was something about the idea that we were living through a really scary time. And ... you lot want to believe that the human being spirit volition rise to the occasion and nosotros'll be courageous, especially when their backbone will benefit others who are in danger. ...

I exercise desire to look back at this time and tell my kids, "Hey, yous did a really cool thing for two years. You guys wore masks when you lot went to school, and that was groovy that you did that. That was this sacrifice that yous did for other people." ... I call up it'south nice to be able to have these moments to say, "Oh yep, you might be afraid of that, just you would rise above information technology if your brother or your sis were in danger." And that's something you lot should know virtually yourself.

On kids having likewise much or not enough fearfulness

As a parent, there are things I'thou frustrated my kids are afraid of because I think every bit an adult, I see them as irrational fears. But there are other things I am thrilled that they're afraid of, and that their fear tells them non to go to the top of the jungle gym before they're quondam enough to go across the monkey confined. And that fear tells them to stop their bikes before the street. And ultimately, every bit a parent, you want your kids to have an internal run a risk meter that they're constantly maturing and growing into. Non that as a parent yous're ever going to relax, merely yous can at least relax a little bit. I think nothing would exist scarier to me than having a fearless child.

On their 2d son, Axel, existence born in the foyer of their apartment building

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[My wife] felt a contraction. We got in the lift. We walked out of the elevator into our antechamber and she said, "I'm having a baby correct at present." And I told her that was ridiculous. (I should note that I'm not and have never been an OB-GYN, and I know very little about the women'south reproductive arrangement, but I boldly told her that was fine.) And so I looked down, and it was very clear from the shape of her sweatpants that she was non lying. And then she got on the ground. It was besides about a forty minute bulldoze to the hospital. And then this was a huge decision on her part to stay. And she delivered the baby in the entrance hall. I called 911. Not that I'm the hero in the story, but I had chosen 911. I mean, everybody always talks near what my wife did, simply I think both her and I were pretty heroic on the day. In that location were police officers and firemen surrounding us when our son, Axel, was born.

On always wanting to be a begetter

I had my kids a fiddling bit later in life. But information technology's exactly as wonderful — it's beyond what I idea it would exist. The biggest force per unit area I felt virtually it was, Oh my god, I hope I like my kids every bit much equally I like my parents. ... It turns out information technology's pretty easy. You just beloved your kids so much and you get to sentinel them grow. And everything most their personalities makes sense to you because you've watched it each step of the style. And they're fantastic. And I'k maxim this on very footling sleep, because final night my six year-sometime threw up and then we had to bring him into our bed, and so the 4 year-quondam insisted he was about to throw up, even though he's a terrible liar, and nosotros knew that wasn't truthful. And and so we had both boys in our bed and one had a bucket to throw upwards in, and then the younger one was wearing his bucket as a lid. And we kept saying, "You lot need to get back to your crib." And he kept proverb, "I don't want to miss the political party," because he thought if people were up and talking the simply word he had to describe that was it was a party.

On staging an intervention for his friend, comic John Mulaney, who was abusing drugs, and so having him then on Late Night to talk about it

I think that'due south one of the biggest upsides of being friends with incredibly funny people is they're going to have an ability — be information technology with the things they're going through or with the things yous're going through — to notice humor in it, and that will so brand the passage through those tricky times a picayune bit easier to acquit. And likewise with John's story specially, when he tells it on our show or when he tells it on stage, I really hope that it brings comfort to other people who take been through it, be it on John's side of it or the balance of united states that had to make that difficult decision to footstep in.

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On what it was like having to do an intervention for Mulaney

I will simply say information technology'south really scary, considering y'all don't know how your friends are going to react to it and you, collectively, with a lot of other people you trust, know what the right path forward is. This is someone you beloved and someone you believe is as smart as anyone you've ever met, and and then you lot're really hopeful going into it that they're going to hold with the conclusion you all made without them. ... Information technology was emotionally actually exhausting. But in so far as the things you practice in your life that take a lot out of you, there are very few that mattered more than that one.

On "Jokes Seth Can't Tell," a Belatedly Nighttime segment when he has writers from his diverse writing room tell jokes that he can't tell as a directly white human being

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Once more, [this segment] just came to u.s. gift-wrapped by Jenny Hagel and Amber Ruffin. ... Merely particularly Jenny, who wrote a lot of monologues for us, she was a monologue joke-writer when we hired her, and she wrote these really funny jokes that I would say to her, "These would be really funny if yous, a Puerto Rican lesbian, told [them], merely if I told [them] I think they would non go well at all." And we would laugh about it because she appreciated that that was true, that sometimes it's not only the joke itself, the delivery system matters.

And so they pitched, "What if we did 'Jokes Seth Tin can't Tell'? You will do the set ups and we'll practice the punchlines of these jokes." And I mean, I can't believe how many we've done, only it's sort of merely like the monologue, we do a monologue every night and "Jokes Seth Can't Tell" is it's own refillable bucket and they're simply joyous to do. It's and so much fun to sit out in that location with the two of them.

So much of it is just nigh being lucky enough to have someone step in and say, "Hey, only FYI, here's how someone like me hears that joke." ... They've saved usa from making a lot of mistakes. I practise not feel like anything nosotros've e'er cut considering someone stepped in and said, "That's going to be hurtful to someone" has made our show whatsoever worse — if anything, [it] has made the show better. And I'm eternally grateful to take them around. Just, again, information technology's overnice going through life, realizing yous don't know everything and trying to learn a new thing every solar day.

Heidi Saman and Thea Chaloner produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and TK adapted it for the web.

Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1086029237/late-night-host-seth-meyers

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