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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

126. Seth Meyers: SNL, Late Night, and a Ton of New Jokes

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Sleepwalkwithme, Iraglass, Comedy, Thankgodforjokes, Thenewone, Mikebirbiglia, Dontthinktwice, Birbiglia

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Mike sits down with the legendary comedian and writer Seth Meyers for a conversation that reveals who is secretly the funniest of the funniest at SNL behind-the-scenes and who was the most popular Strike Force Five host. Then, Mike and Seth work out new material about serial killers, the D.A.R.E. program, and dropping acid in Amsterdam. Plus: who will take over for Lorne Michaels after he leaves SNL?

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0:00.0

So, S&L's 50th anniversary's next year.

0:04.0

So are you going to take over for Lorne or is it Tina Neneu?

0:08.0

I really don't, I think this is a false narrative that Lorne is going anywhere. Oh. I think that this is a false narrative that Lauren is going anywhere.

0:13.0

Oh, I think that look, nine years awarded the 40th,

0:19.0

I think it made sense for Lauren who's got a flare for the dramatic to say I think I'll be done at 50.

0:24.4

Yeah. But now we're not like Lauren's got something else he wants to do more than this.

0:27.6

So you think it's Keenan? I think it's Keenan. That is the great Seth Myers. This episode is years in the Making.

0:44.0

Seth and I are good friends.

0:47.0

We've been trying to get him on this podcast for a long time.

0:51.0

We've one of the great comedy writers, wrote for S long time. He was one of the great comedy writers.

0:53.0

He wrote for S&L for years and years as a head writer at S&L,

0:58.0

has written for his own late night with Seth Myers for going on, wait for it, 10 years now.

1:04.5

It's a 10 year anniversary of Late Night with Seth Myers,

1:08.0

which is a show I love, and I've been on many times.

1:10.6

Seth is also a producer and an interview subject in this new peacock documentary TV series

1:18.0

that comes out tomorrow March 26th called Good One, a show about jokes based on the Volcher podcast by Jesse David Fox.

1:27.2

I love how this documentary came out.

1:30.0

They followed me around in last year in Providence and in Washington DC a bunch of places

1:34.8

they filmed me working on new jokes and it was honestly like the most access that I've ever

1:42.4

sort of given any documentary crew,

1:44.8

documentaries make me feel very uncomfortable.

1:47.3

And so I was very nervous about it and I thought it came out great. I've seen it. I think it's really

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