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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Seth Meyers

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

It’s been 8 years since Seth Meyers took the Late Night baton from his friend Jimmy Fallon, carrying on a legendary legacy started by David Letterman in 1982. Before taking over behind that desk, Meyers spent over a decade at Saturday Night Live, first as a cast member, then as Head Writer and host of “Weekend Update.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the television host and comedian to talk about applying those writing skills to a new children’s book inspired by his three kids.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:06.2

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.6

I am very happy to bring you this week my conversation with the always hilarious, the

0:14.4

always charming, my buddy Seth Meyers host of Late Night with Seth Meyers for eight years

0:20.0

now.

0:21.0

Did you know that eight years?

0:22.4

He took over for Jimmy Fallon who took over for Conan O'Brien who took over for David

0:26.9

Letterman.

0:27.9

He's a pretty impressive chain of comedians and he's putting his own stamp on it doing

0:32.0

segments like a closer look, which can be 10, 12, 14 minutes rendering the day's news with

0:38.0

jokes, not an easy lift.

0:40.5

And a more recent ad called Corrections, something that goes up on YouTube, he shoots it every

0:45.1

week.

0:46.1

It's become very popular where he just sits and basically reads through mostly hateful

0:51.0

some flattering, mostly hateful comments on YouTube about him, about his show on Twitter

0:56.2

and he keeps a running tally all week and answers the criticism point by point if you haven't

1:01.0

seen it.

1:02.0

It's great.

1:03.0

He talks about doing the show during the pandemic up in the attic of his house, which was

1:05.9

really his kids playroom kind of living the way we all were living, trying to work in

1:10.1

the middle of family in a slightly claustrophobic house or apartment, perhaps, but he did find

1:16.5

time to write a new children's book.

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