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The Town with Matthew Belloni

Seth Meyers on Late Night’s Future, 'SNL' 50, and Lorne’s Successor

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3847 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt is joined by Seth Meyers to discuss the evolving state of late-night television, making content that will work on digital, and the growing trend of the online celebrity interview show. Seth also gives his thoughts on the upcoming 50th anniversary extravaganza for 'SNL,' who should take over 'SNL' after Lorne Michaels, and Jason Reitman’s new movie, ‘Saturday Night’ (02:12). Matt finishes the show with a recap of his time at TIFF and predicts which films are in the running for the coveted People’s Choice Award (28:36). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Seth Meyers Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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They broke into computer servers belonging to Sony Pictures and released hundreds of thousands of top secret documents.

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The attack would cause an international incident, upend thousands of lives, and change the movie industry forever.

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interesting time in late-night television. In some ways, we need to come up with a new name for the genre.

1:24.8

While the content from these shows has never been watched by more people, it's just online

1:29.3

via clips and mashups and YouTube stuff and social media and the streaming services.

1:34.5

There's still lots of these shows.

1:36.7

John Stewart is back on The Daily Show.

1:38.5

On HBO, Bill Maher and John Oliver are still going strong.

1:41.8

And Netflix has experimented with various late-night formats,

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