Saturday Night Live tapes right by Late Night and when Seth Meyers isn’t doing his show security is lax on the set. Since Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam knew they were going to be on the show, they decided to break in and record a little something for their old friend. It started off innocently enough, butt it didn’t end that way. That’s because they rubbed their naked a$$es all over his desk. An image we won’t ever stopped seeing and a smell he won’t soon forget.
Steven Tyler’s dad was a music teacher who had a piano in his Riverdale apartment in The Bronx. While the apartments in our hometown are not that small, a piano is a big piece of beautiful furniture to have in it. In order for his family to have the Baby Grand and the baby in the same place, the Aerosmith singer told Seth Meyers on Late Night that he slept under it when it was baby. That shelter lead to him learning his first language which is music. That most likely explains why he is so good at. If the first letters you hear are from someone tickling the ivories, it is definitely going to shape who you become. That is why he became the man that he is today.
And yes, this a gratuitous post because I squealed when I heard Tyler talk about her hometown. I know his first building oh so well, even though we grew up at different ends of the neighborhood.
Have you ever wondered why Seth Meyers got the Late Night gig over so many other people? Now we might know why thanks to his Writers. When the NBC late night host was reading positive affirmations that his Writers wrote about him, they revealed that he looks a lot like Ellen DeGeneres’ older sister. So I guess that is there was of saying he got the job because they wanted an Ellen type and that was the best they could do.
Joking! In all honesty he has proven in the last 2 years to be a really strong talk show host. I find that he has become the best political late night host and second behind Conan O’Brien for interviewing. I just wish NBC would do more to promote him because they really have a good host on their network that they seem to be ignoring.
Rami Malek was on Late Night yesterday and he told Seth Meyers a story about the first time that he saw a billboard with his face on it in Los Angeles. Mr Robot got so excited that he crashed his car into another one. Then he explained what happened next, “I got out of the car and I couldn’t stop staring at it (the billboard). And then the driver looked as well, put two and two together and then the back pain really set in.” So much so that she took his “first couple of paychecks.”
So to all the actors, who are going to see their faces on huge billboards for the first time, take this as lesson to pull over as soon as you see it. Unless you want to give your first few paychecks to you manager, agent, publicist and the person you accidentally hit who now suddenly knows who you are.
Like all of the other broadcast late night hosts, Seth Meyers is a Straight White male. That means he cannot tell jokes about Lesbians, African-Americans or women. But he found a way around it, he has two of his Late Night writers, Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel, tell the punchlines. Ruffin is an African-American female and Hagel is a Lesbian.
I know I shouldn’t laugh at this segment, but it hard not to. Especially when they tell a joke like when the NBC host starts it off with, “The TV Drama Person of Interest came under fire recently for killing off one of the show’s Lesbian characters,” and Hagel finishes it off with, “It is unclear who killed her, but a few suspects have been fingered!” Get it?
If Seth had told that joke, we wouldn’t be talking about who he banned from his show the other night, instead we would be talking about how he is out of job.
I am grateful he got to tell that joke and the one about The Tonys because after the week we have been having, we all need to laugh and this did it for me.
