Seth Meyers Takes A Closer Look At Future Of Late-Night & ‘SNL’ – Q&A
deadline.comSeth Meyers has become one of the elder statemen of late-night. Meyers has been hosting NBC’s Late Night for nearly ten years, starting a week after Jimmy Fallon began his stint helming The Tonight Show.
Other than Jimmy Kimmel, who has been on air for over 20 years, the NBC pair’s shows have been on air longer than The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and has seen off the likes of Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, James Corden on The Late Late Show and Samantha Bee on Full Frontal, who all started after him. “I was the new guy for two months and a lot of shows have come and gone.
It’s been nine years, so it didn’t happen overnight. But there was certainly a boom of how many people were trying this format,” he told Deadline.
But Meyers, who also co-created and exec produces IFC’s Documentary Now!, shows no sign of slowing down; his deal runs through 2025 and he’s still day drinking with the likes of Lizzo, much to his wife’s chagrin.
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