Seth Meyers Roasts Ted Cruz for Over-the-Top Speech Entrance With ‘Pyrotechnics From an 8th Grader’s Roller Skate Party’ (Video)

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entrance at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit last weekend. The late night host simply couldn’t get over how dramatic it was.To kick off Monday’s “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers pulled up video of Cruz’s entrance, in which massive smoke cannons went off, loud music played, and a small light show occurred.

Even Cruz himself seemed amazed, as the first thing he said when he arrived on stage was simply “Wow!”“Yeah, wow,” Meyers deadpanned. “Talk about blowing smoke up someone’s ass.”Of course, the late night host had more than just a one-liner.

He had a whole slew of things to mock about Cruz’s entrance.“There’s never been a bigger gap between the drama of an entrance and the charisma of the person making the entrance,” Meyers joked. “That was like if the lights went down and you heard Michael Buffer say ‘Let’s get ready to rumble!’ and then the lights came up on like a spelling bee.

And not a good one. Not Scripps.”Meyers then joked that, with hype like that, he definitely would’ve expected someone else to come out on stage.“I think after an entrance like that you expect to see The Rock, not someone with the personality of a rock,” Meyers said, before imitating what he imagined Ted Cruz’s take on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s legendary catchphrase would be. “‘Can you smell what Ted Cruz is cooking?