Seth Meyers Embraced ‘Flights of Fancy’ to Turn ‘Late Night’ Into One of TV’s Best Shows

“I don’t think I could make a show that was fun to watch if I wasn’t having fun doing it,” the NBC host tells TheWrap in a wide-ranging interview

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Seth Meyers during his “Late Night” monologue on December 13, 2023 (Lloyd Bishop/NBC)

Few late night hosts talk about their writers as much as Seth Meyers does. Which is why it wasn’t surprising when he directly threw his support behind WGA members ahead of the writers’ strike earlier this year, telling viewers he felt “very strongly” that what the writers were asking for was not unreasonable before cautioning that the strike would not be done “lightly.”

That devotion to his writing staff has also directly led to a largely unchanged roster of talent that, over the course of nearly 10 years now, has fine-tuned and evolved “Late Night with Seth Meyers” into a show that embraces looseness and in-jokes, standing wholly apart from its other late night counterparts.

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