Showing posts with label Seth Meyers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seth Meyers. Show all posts

Friday, November 4, 2016

Joke of the Day (Seth Meyers, to Those Who Don’t ‘Love the Choice’ for President)



“I mean, do you pick someone who’s under federal investigation for using a private email server, or do you pick someone who called Mexicans ‘rapists,’ claimed the president was born in Kenya, proposed banning an entire religion from entering the U.S., mocked a disabled reporter, said John McCain wasn’t a war hero because he was captured, attacked the parents of a fallen soldier, bragged about committing sexual assault, was accused by 12 women of committing sexual assault, said some of those women weren’t attractive enough for him to sexually assault, said more countries should get nukes, said he would force the military to commit war crimes, said a judge was ‘biased’ because his parents were Mexicans, said women should be ‘punished’ for having abortions, incited violence at his rallies, called global warming ‘a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese,’ called for his opponent to be jailed, declared bankruptcy six times, bragged about not paying income taxes, stiffed his contractors and employees, lost a billion dollars in one year, scammed customers at his fake university, bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself with money from his fake foundation, has a trial for fraud coming up in November, insulted an opponent’s looks, insulted an opponent’s wife’s looks, and bragged about grabbing women ‘by the pussy.’How do you choose? Because it’s so… it’s so even. It’s so even.”—Late Night host Seth Meyers, addressing viewers who don’t “love the choice” between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, quoted in Marlow Stern, “Seth Meyers Presents the Case Against Donald Trump: The ‘Monster’ Hiding in Our Closets,” The Daily Beast, Nov. 3, 2016

(Photo of Seth Meyers taken in May 2010 by David Shankbone.)

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Quote of the Day (Seth Meyers, Summing Up the Sochi Olympics)



“I can't personally remember an Olympics with better toilet reporting.”— Now former SNL anchor (and new late-night host) Seth Meyers, definitively encapsulating the essentials from Sochi media coverage, in his February 6, 2014 tweet

(Photo of Seth Meyers taken in May 2010 by David Shankbone.)

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Quote of the Day (Dick Cavett, on Talk-Show Hosting and Anxiety)



“It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but have always wanted one.”—Former talk-show host Dick Cavett, on being a talk-show host, quoted in John Heilpern, “Out to Lunch with Jimmy Fallon,” Vanity Fair, January 2013

And you thought that The Larry Sanders Show was fictional? Even one of the more successful practitioners of the art of the talk show, David Letterman, admitted to Charlie Rose that he has seen a psychiatrist.

Now, Seth Meyers is going to replace Jimmy Fallon on Late Night, as the latter takes over the throne for Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Only time will tell if this turns out to be a success—or if Meyers ends up making the same big, anxiety-producing mistake that Chevy Chase did with his brief fling with the gabfest form some years back.

(The image accompanying this post is a publicity photo from 1973 of Cavett with onetime Tonight Show host Jack Paar, who had come on to announce that he would be jumping into the talk-show fray again. That lasted all of a year. We’ll see if Meyers has better luck.)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Quote of the Day (Seth Meyers, on Donald Trump)

“Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke."--Seth Meyers quoted in Cindy Clark, “Obama, Meyers Take on Trump at Press Dinner,” USA Today, May 1, 2011

That hair with a life of its own...that mouth, open and roaring...Who else could it be but the man Regis Philbin calls The Trumpster? (That sounds like Huckster. How appropriate...)

Friday, May 14, 2010

Quote of the Day (“SNL’s” Seth Meyers, on the Dow)


“On Thursday the Dow fell 1,000 points because someone entered a billion instead of a million? How is that possible? How is there not a back-up system? When I delete a picture on Facebook it asks me if I’m sure. Why is Facebook more squared away than the Dow? I mean, really!”—Seth Meyers in the “Weekend Update” segment of Saturday Night Live, May 8, 2010

Saturday, April 18, 2009

TV Quote of the Day (Seth Meyers, on the End of a Soap Opera)

“After 72 years and over 15,000 episodes, CBS is canceling the soap opera ‘Guiding Light.’ CBS said the show’s viewership dropped in recent months after white people started having real problems.”—Seth Meyers, “Weekend Update” segment on Saturday Night Live, April 11, 2009