Was it the lobster claw lamp?
Or maybe it was just those random conversations aboutThe Thorn Birds.
No matter how oddball his brand of comedy was, Meyers was all in this season.
Seth Meyers on ‘Late Night’.NBC
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did the pandemic change you?
Did it make you an even better comic?
There was no time during the performance to readjust.
Seth Meyers on ‘Late Night’.NBC
Did you learn something new about yourself?
Did it feel pretty easy to let your freak flag fly?
And then we became crazy people.
We were a show by and for the formerly sane.
But weirdly I feel as though we showed our work.
Each step of the way made sense only because of the previous step we had taken.
A lot of the things happened because the audience pointed them out.
We didn’t ignore that they hated us.
We talked to them about how they were wrong.
Was the lobster claw an actual artifact in your in-laws' home?
It was a lamp.
You could actually turn it on.
I would have fixed it up."
And I’m like, “Nobody’s judging it as a lamp.
Nobody’s watching this thing saying, ‘Pretty shoddy lamp, Tom.'”
Did anything about that experience inform what you were going to do once you were back in the studio?
I was a little sad to leave the attic.
And then I was a little sad to leave my in-law’s house.
You’re always worried it’s not going to have the same energy, the next place you go.
We really didn’t want to bring the sea captain painting with us.
So then we had to kind of come back, reset, and find new things.
I think you could argue thatCue Card Wallyis the sea captain now.
What is your favorite thing that you did in the last year?
I don’t feel as though we have enough haircut categories.
Unlike most late-night shows, you routinely incorporate your writers on screen.
It feels like a group effort.
It was wonderful, but the best part about it was that our audience already knew who she was.
She’s somebody who the audience had known to be very optimistic, very cheerful, very likable.
I think the message resonated a lot more because of that.
Can you finally come clean aboutTiny Secret Whispersand admit that it’s quiteliterallyunwatchable?
Youknowwhat shows I’m talking about.
And sometimes it was okay because we just needed a thing.
I am willing to admit now thatTiny Secret Whisperswas one of those shows.
Was it fun to talk to your friends every Monday about?
Yes, it was.
And like a lot of those shows, the acting was exceptional.
I do hope thatJoel Edgertongets nominated.
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