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Seth Meyers joked about President-elect Donald Trump on his present as regular Tuesday, however it wasn't an everyday evening.
He and comic Amber Ruffin, a author on Late Night time with Seth Meyers, did a bit on the idea of "panic naps," through which tense concepts induce sleep. Meyers requested if the stress of Trump successful the election was an instance, and Ruffin instantly started to snooze.
"Seth, I had the craziest dream," she mentioned when she "woke." "Trump obtained reelected."
"Yeah, it was actual," Meyers replied, then needed to increase his voice to wake her once more, "Amber!… Trump gained and you need to cope with it."
Ruffin woke, "You imply, we’ve got to write down jokes about this man for 4 extra years?" which despatched Meyers dozing.
Their dialog begins at 7:40 within the video beneath.
Their banter got here simply hours after Trump slammed the present and threatened NBC's mother or father firm, Comcast, in a 1:24 a.m. rant on his Reality Social platform.
"How unhealthy is Seth Meyers on NBC, a 'community' run by a very unhealthy group of individuals – Keep in mind, in addition they run MSDNC," Trump wrote. "I obtained caught watching Marble Mouth Meyers the opposite evening, the primary time in months, and each time I watch this moron I really feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he’s, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast. These guys needs to be paying some huge cash for the appropriate to present these 'in variety' contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Occasion. These should not exhibits or leisure, they’re merely political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Occasion. Comcast ought to pay a BIG worth for this!"
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NBC and Seth Meyers didn’t instantly reply to EW's request for touch upon the publish.
Trump's relationship with the present enormously differs from that of present President Joe Biden, who visited the present in February to eat ice cream, "sending the nation right into a full-blown Constitutional disaster," Meyers mirrored within the "A Nearer Lick" section on his Feb. 28, 2024, present.
"Disgrace on me for forgetting the primary rule of comedy: When the Center East comes up, put your ice cream down," Meyers noticed. "By no means earlier than in my life has the Curb Your Enthusiasm music been louder in my head than throughout this second."
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