In this episode, Seth speaks with Fred Armisen (01:02), Amber Ruffin (03:57), Alex Baze (09:04), Eric Leiderman (14:23), Haleigh Raff (19:24), Gene Kelly (24:51), Sal Gentile (28:52), Alex Vietmeier (33:19), Hillary Hunn (37:43), Jeremiah Silva (42:16) and Kenny Coyle & Ryan Fox (47:31) and Wally Feresten (52:32).

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Inspired by the best podcast journalism available, Fred Armisen hosts The Late Nightly, where he investigates the dark secrets of Late Night with Seth Meyers.

Today, Fred looks into why Late Night refuses to switch to the more technologically advanced teleprompter and instead relies on cue cards.

(From the September 24th, 2018 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers.)

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his wife sat down last night for an interview with Fox News, during which he claimed that he was a virgin in high school and for “many years after.” This brings us to a segment called “Couple Things.”

First thing. It does not matter if you were a virgin. You are being accused of sexual assault, not sexual intercourse. Those things have nothing to do with each other. It’s the same as saying, “I couldn’t have robbed that bank, I’m a virgin.”

Devoting yourself to celibacy doesn’t mean you can’t be a sexual assaulter. Just ask thousands of priests.

Also, stop saying that you were friends with women. That’s not a defense! Just because you’re friends with one woman doesn’t mean you haven’t been awful to another. That’s like saying you’re a vegetarian because you didn’t eat your dog.

Second thing. Can we please dispense with the ritual of making your wife sit next to you while you deny sexual assault allegations? It’s a horrible thing to do to a woman while you’re trying to prove you don’t do horrible things to women. I’m sure when she said, “We should go out more,” this isn’t what she had in mind. She’s thinking about the guy she dated right before she met you and wondering if she still has his number.

Third thing. If you’re trying to distance yourself from sexual assault, maybe Fox News isn’t the place to hang out. Usually when they interview someone accused of sexual assault, it’s for a job. (Shoutout Bill O’Reilly!) Going to Fox News to prove you’re not a pervert is like doing the word search to prove you’re smart.

Final thing. You said there was never a night when “you drank so much you didn’t remember it.” But how could you remember that you didn’t forget? That’s the whole point of forgetting. That’d be like saying you don’t remember being born so it didn’t happen. Which at this point I bet you wish you hadn’t been, because an FBI investigation may suddenly make you remember what you said you forgot.

This has been “Couple Things.”

This summer, we’re releasing special episodes of the Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast under the banner “Summer Fridays.” These episodes will contain fully original content, extending Late Night’s comedy, news and interview segments as a native audio experience.

The first episode features a new podcast segment, Midterm Cram, hosted by “A Closer Look” supervising writer Sal Gentile and producer Henry Melcher. Their inaugural guest is reporter Katy Tur of NBC News and MSNBC.

Plus, you’ll hear some summer reading recommendations from Late Night guests Ellie Kemper, Phoebe Robinson and author Celeste Ng.

Look out for the next “Summer Friday” edition next Friday, June 8. We hope you subscribe to the Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Live from the SXSW podcast stage presented by TuneIn, Late Night with Seth Meyers writer/performers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel have a candid conversation with MSNBC’s Joy Reid about how their unique experiences have informed their careers and their work. (Recorded in front of a live audience in Austin on March 11, 2018.)

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The below is a transcript of Seth Meyers’ opening remarks from “Late Night” on Monday, August 14th, 2017.

On Saturday, there was yet another terror attack on American soil. This one was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist named James Fields against a group of protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia. He drove his car into a crowd and killed a woman named Heather Heyer. It was a horrifying incident that left most of the country stunned and terrified, but on Saturday you didn’t hear her name or the terrorist’s name or even the word “terrorist” from our president. What you heard instead was this:

TRUMP: “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.”

“On many sides”? If that choice of words made you feel sick to your stomach, the good news is you’re a normal and decent person. The jury is still out on the President, as he initially refused to condemn the white supremacist
movement in this country.

Now, he did read a statement at the White House on Monday that finally struck the right tone, but I’m sorry. Pencils-down on this subject was Saturday evening. He only gets very partial credit.

Some ignored it or played it down when Donald Trump claimed our first black president wasn’t born in this country. It was racist and insane, but he was written off as a clown — a bitter little man who didn’t know an American could have a name like “Barack Obama.”

Then he called Mexicans rapists during the speech announcing his candidacy. He called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.” Then he brought Steve Bannon to the White House with him, worked to take away voting rights from black people and hammered away at the idea that Chicago was a wasteland because of the violent black people living there. And now white supremacists and American Nazis are visible and energetic and demonstrative in a way we have not seen in our lifetimes.

Donald Trump did not immediately denounce the white supremacist movement when given the chance. And whether he knows it or not, many of those people see him as leading that movement. The leader of our country is called a president because he is supposed to preside over our society. His job is to lead, to cajole, to scold, to correct our path, to lift up what is good about us and to absolutely and unequivocally and immediately condemn what is evil in us. And if he does not do that, if he does not preside over our society, then he is not a president. You can stand for a nation or you can stand for a hateful movement. You can’t do both. And if you don’t make the right choice, I am confident that the American voter will.