Yahoo Lifestyle Seth Meyers and Amber Ruffin joke that President-elect Donald Trump causes panic naps
The "Late Night with Seth Meyers" host traded snoozes with writer Ruffin hours after Trump ranted on social media, "Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!"
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Seth Meyers joked about President-elect Donald Trump on 'Late Night'Seth Meyers joked about President-elect Donald Trump on his show as usual Tuesday, but it wasn't a regular night.
He and comedian Amber Ruffin, a writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers, did a bit on the concept of "panic naps," in which stressful ideas induce sleep. Meyers asked if the stress of Trump winning the election was an example, and Ruffin immediately began to snooze.
"Seth, I had the craziest dream," she said when she "woke." "Trump got reelected."
"Yeah, it was real," Meyers replied, then had to raise his voice to wake her again, "Amber!... Trump won and you have to deal with it."
Ruffin woke, "You mean, we have to write jokes about this man for four more years?" which sent Meyers dozing.
Their conversation begins at 7:40 in the video below.
Their banter came just hours after Trump slammed the show and threatened NBC's parent company, Comcast, in a 1:24 a.m. rant on his Truth Social platform.
"How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC, a 'network' run by a truly bad group of people - Remember, they also run MSDNC," Trump wrote. "I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast. These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these 'in kind' contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Party. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!"
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NBC and Seth Meyers did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment on the post.
Trump's relationship with the show greatly differs from that of current President Joe Biden, who visited the show in February to eat ice cream, "sending the nation into a full-blown Constitutional crisis," Meyers reflected in the "A Closer Lick" segment on his Feb. 28, 2024, show.
"Shame on me for forgetting the first rule of comedy: When the Middle East comes up, put your ice cream down," Meyers observed. "Never before in my life has the Curb Your Enthusiasm music been louder in my head than during this moment."
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