Seth Meyers takes questions from the audience during tapings of Late Night, and a woman wanted to know what was the favorite joke he told from his time on Saturday Night Live.
He did not answer that question. Instead, he told her about “the joke that bombed the hardest during dress [rehearsal].”
What is it? He put his head down in shame and said, “A man in Washington state was arrested for animal cruelty after he was caught having sex with the family dog. Even worse, it was makeup sex.” And then he giggled in his cute little way as the audience moaned.
“The thing I always love about it is how you all groaned at the end,” he explained. “But you kind of like waiting after. After ‘sex with the family dog’, let’s hear him out. We don’t know his reasons yet.”
This was his worst joke, but it was not his only one. His co-anchor, Amy Poehler, would try to tell him not to do certain jokes. He didn’t listen, told them, the audience hated them, and then she would say, “I told you so.”
I would love to know what some of them were. Someone should write a book or release the videos from dress telling or showing all the awful things that didn’t make it all the way to Saturday Night Live, they can call it Saturday Night Dead.
