Father’s Day with Seth Meyers
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Lemonada Media
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
For the past twenty-four years, Seth Meyers has built a comedy career inside the walls of 30 Rock. We join him there today for our Father’s Day special, reflecting on the past decade of Late Night.
At the top, we talk about making the show four nights a week (3:00), his approach to parenting as seen in his HBO special Dad Man Walking (12:00), and the formative lessons that shaped his comedic voice (17:00). Then, we unpack the characters he brought to his SNL audition (22:00), what it takes to get a sketch from read-through to air (35:00), and an infamous 2004 scene Seth performed opposite Donald Trump (40:00).
On the back-half, Meyers revisits his legendary White House Correspondents Dinner monologue (42:00), how that night unexpectedly set him on the path to Late Night (47:00), and how his singular approach to the talk show was born (50:00). To close, we take A Closer Look at his Strike Force Five co-hosts (53:00), the future of SNL (57:00), and an early memory of Seth’s father that shaped his creativity (1:02:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:02.0 | Lemonada |
| 0:04.0 | This is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:41.8 | Today, a Father's Day special with Seth Myers. |
| 0:50.0 | For the past 24 years, Seth has been walking into the same building just about every morning at 30 Rockerfeathered Plaza in New York City. |
| 0:55.9 | It was there that he first arrived in 2001 as a young performer on Saturday Night Live, |
| 1:02.0 | and where, years later in 2014, he launched his own show, late night with Seth Myers. |
| 1:07.7 | A decade in, Seth is still behind that desk, delivering jokes, making sense in the news, |
| 1:10.9 | and offering levity in these historic times. |
| 1:15.1 | You could hear that quick-witted sensibility in Strike Force Five, |
| 1:20.5 | the podcast he co-hosted with his fellow late-night hosts during the Riders Strike in 2023. |
| 1:29.4 | Equal parts comedy and camaraderie, the ten-part podcast offered a rare, unfiltered glimpse into the people behind the personas. Outside of late night, Seth has somehow found time to host not one but two podcasts |
| 1:36.1 | of his own, family trips, co-hosted by his brother, actor and comedian, Josh Myers, as well as |
| 1:42.5 | the Lonely Island and Seth Myers podcast, where he reunites |
| 1:45.9 | with old friends, Andy Sandberg, Akiva Schaefer, and Yorma de Kone, as they reminisce about their |
| 1:51.3 | shared history at SNL, and how they managed through the absurdity of early internet fame. |
| 1:57.6 | I sat down with Seth at 30 Rock in the very building where it all began. As you'll hear, |
| 2:03.2 | we walked through the routine of making a show four nights a week, his early years at S&L, |
| 2:09.4 | his brilliant White House Correspondence Dinner monologue, and how that evening kind of unexpectedly |
| 2:15.2 | set him on the path to late night. And then finally, we get some |
| 2:19.3 | comedy lessons from everyone from his father to Amy Poehler. And so with that, I hope you |
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