Late Night With Seth Meyers: Seth Bombs His Audience

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From Late Night With Seth Meyers

So either Late Night With Seth Meyers had a light audience when this segment was produced, (perhaps Seth was just delivering his monologue in front of his closest family members and people he paid to show up) or this wasn't very good. Because just from the reactions to his material here and to a certain extent from Seth trying to deliver it, it didn't go very well. 

Seth Meyers even had a joke about New Jersey and tanning salons. Unless you ae from the Tri-State region, how are you supposed to pick that 1 up? 

And a joke about Donald Trump (who is from Queens, New York) and what he might do if the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl, instead of the New York Giants. I mean this could've been a local access TV, standup comedy show or something, where only the local convention of insomniacs, are even able to watch it. And those are just the insomniacs who are trying to get some sleep. "(Hey, maybe Seth Meyers will bomb again tonight and we can finally get some sleep) 

And even though The King of Late Night Johnny Carson isn't 1 of Seth Meyers direct predecessors, (that would be Conan O'Brian and David Letterman on Late Night) I think Meyers could've used a little Carson comedic magic and timing here when his jokes felled faster than bricks being thrown out of he 2nd floor of a house. 

Johnny Carson was a pretty good standup comedian, but he didn't make it his career. He started off as a magician and got into music, I think he even had a game show at 1 point, before getting into talk TV where his producers noticed that he had an excellent sense of humor, which eventually led to The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson in the early 1960s. 

I'm just telling you this because I want to see how many people I can send to the nearest bridge to jump off of, so they'll finally be spared of having to hear me talk about this anymore. But the other reason I'm telling you this, is since Carson wasn't a professional standup comedian, (at least not full-time) he delivered his share of bad monologues. But his comedic timing was so spot on and powerful, that he could make his bad jokes sound funny based on how he would react to how his audience would react to his bad jokes. (Now I'm dizzy. But the blog post must go on) 

So when Johnny Carson's monologue would die faster than fish without water, in the middle of a desert, he would pretend his microphone wasn't working, or say something like: 

"Attention, K-Mart shoppers!" Which was his way of lightly making fun of his audience. Any Gen-Xer who sees this, will no what the K-Mart joke is about. 

Carson had a bad Valentine's Day monologue 1 year and he handled that by saying: 

"Look, I want you to be kind to me tonight. One massacre on this date was enough".

Another night where Carson delivered a bad monologue and was tired of sounding like a priest delivering a speech at a funeral, (even a comedic priest) he said: 

"That's it, folks — I've got nothing," to end his monologue for that show. 

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But with Seth Meyers, he's like 1 of those U.S. Senators who gives a filibuster speech and simply runs out of material and gets tired of being the only person in the chamber (other than the presiding officer and the stenographer) and starts telling jokes on the floor, so he doesn't have to give up the floor. He just goes on and on, when a little comedic self-awareness would've been more appropriate. 

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