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Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

Kenan Thompson | GOP in Chaos as George Santos Scandal Gets Crazier, Greene and Boebert Fight: A Closer Look

Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast

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Political Comedy, Politics, After Shows, News, Comedy, Books, Authors, News Commentary, A Closer Look, Seth Myers, Tv & Film, Seth Meyers

4.33.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Seth takes a closer look at the rolling GOP meltdown that began with the party’s humiliating speaker vote, including Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene fighting in a bathroom, serial liar George Santos facing calls to resign and Donald Trump getting ready to rejoin Facebook and Twitter.

Then, Kenan Thompson reflects on his 20 years with Saturday Night Live, reuniting with Kel Mitchell in an SNL sketch with Keke Palmer and saying goodbye to cast members.

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0:00.0

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis criticized the NHL last week for plans to hold a hiring event,

0:07.4

aimed at diversifying the league's workforce. Imagine how racist you have to be to think that hockey

0:14.6

isn't white enough.

0:21.8

From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night

0:26.4

Seth Mayans. On today's show, Seth Kats with Keenan Thompson from Saturday Night Live,

0:31.0

but first, a closer look.

0:40.1

Well, the rolling GOP meldown, the began with the party's humiliating speaker vote,

0:44.5

keeps getting crazier. Two members of Congress, Lauren Bovert and Marjorie Taylor Green,

0:48.1

reportedly got into a shouting match in a bathroom. Serial liar George Santos is facing calls

0:53.5

from his own party to resign. And just in time to cool things down, Donald Trump is reportedly

0:58.4

getting ready to rejoin a Facebook and Twitter for more on this. It's time for a closer look.

1:06.8

The back of November, Republicans delivered one of the worst performances for an opposition party

1:11.4

in decades. And after the results came in, they all started turning on each other,

1:15.6

and surprisingly, on Donald Trump.

1:17.7

Donald Trump, yeah, he kept saying, and we're going to be winning so much, we'll get tired of

1:21.2

winning. I'm tired of losing. I mean, that's all he's done. Look, I don't think he could win in

1:25.3

November of 24. Trump is the past. He's fading fast. He's a proven loser. He cost us the house at

1:32.0

18. He cost us the White House in 20. He cost us to set it again and again. And I think we all know

1:36.8

that. And I think we're moving past Trump. First of all, it should be easy to move past Trump,

1:40.5

since he moves at the speed of a glacier smoking pot in a windstorm. Remember when he used to lumber

1:46.4

around the debate stage like a zombie who forgot what he was supposed to be doing? I was just in the

1:52.3

middle of something. What, what, all right. Eat brains. Even when he was the president of the

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