Meyers Roasts Writing Staff, Shares Embarrassingly Bad Jokes: ‘They Just Throw in a Few Stinkers Every Day’ (Video)

“The writers don’t know we’re doing this and because a lot of them don’t watch the show, they’ll never know,” the host said

In honor of the holiday season, “Late Night” host Seth Meyers held a surprise inspection for the writing staff that puts together his monologue.

“They write hundreds, hundreds of jokes every day just to get to the 10 or 12 we use in the monologue. And honestly a lot of those jokes that they write just aren’t good,” Meyers said. “Sometimes I think they just throw in a few stinkers everyday just to fill the page and meet the assignment. But just because the holidays are here doesn’t mean we can tolerate laziness.”

“I’m gonna read some actual jokes that were really submitted by my writers.

Comments