Seth Meyers Is Embracing the Confidence of ‘Late Night’: ‘If a Joke Bombs, Just Talk About How It Bombed’

The talk show host tells TheWrap about finding comfort in the looseness of “Late Night with Seth Meyers”

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When Seth Meyers first made the jump from “Saturday Night Live” head writer and cast member to talk show host, he was nervous. Particularly, the “SNL” mentality made him feel like every joke he told on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” had to be perfect.

“I thought it’d be so much harder because ‘SNL,’ that’s all I knew,” Meyers said in an interview with TheWrap conducted before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. “So you get ingrained that everything takes five days and then you do it. [With ‘Late Night’] by design, you can’t put it on a pedestal the same way.

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