Late Night with Seth Meyers and Stale After-Hours Talk Shows
Released on 02/20/2014
(intro music)
(train whistle)
So. Seth Myers is leaving SNL to host
his own late night talk show.
Can he make the show his own?
Only if he becomes a master of social media.
Ever since Johnny Carson retired,
the late night talk show format has felt
exactly the same as when Johnny Carson retired.
Open with topical jokes,
then commercials,
then guests flocking for some new product,
then commercials, skits, commercials, commercials,
commercials.
In a desperate attempt to appear relevant,
show hosts are now leveraging social media
for all they're worth.
Conan O'Brien is a Twitter maestro,
and he's got the funniest profile on LinkedIn.
Jimmy Fallon does mashups of viral videos
and incorporates hashtags into his humor.
Hashtag dinosaurs, hashtag how did they go extinct,
hashtag meteor.
And millions who don't watch Jimmy Kimmel
saw his viral twerk fail hoax video.
(screaming)
(fire extinguisher)
There's only one way Myers can beat his competitors
at their own game.
He's got to cut out the middle man
and create his own social networking platform.
It's simple, Seth.
Round up the best writers you can find.
No, no, not comedy writers.
Code writers.
Come up with a brand name, some common word
that's missing a vowel.
For some reason, they're always missing a vowel.
Here, how about this?
Oh, brainstorm.
Add Geolocations features,
so that you can narrow cast jokes and advertising messages
to each community member.
It'd work like so,
Hi there, thanks for watching.
Hope you're doing well out in
(robot voice) Duluth, Minnesota.
How about the weather there, huh?
It's currently (robot voice) nine degrees Fahrenheit.
What's up with that?
And what's up with your local sports team,
(robot voice) File not found.
The way they've been playing lately,
you'd think that they'd
(robot voice) stop overflow error at line 327.
Huh?
Okay, it's still got some kinks that need working out,
but it's still better than the desk and couch paradigm.
(whoosh)
What is your least favorite talk show skit?
Let me know in the comments.
Starring: Chris Baker
Bad Ideas from Hollywood: Punctuation in Titles—Age of the Colon
Why is WWE on SyFy?! Cable Networks Straying from Their Original Missions
TV Networks Are Running Out of Original Ideas
What the Bleep is Bumblebee? Indecisive Autobot Keeps Switching his Vehicular Form
Deconstructing LEGO: How a Beloved Toy Sold Out to Cross-Brand Licensing
The Inauthenticity of CG Blood and the Demise of Karo Syrup and Red Food Coloring
The Implausibility of Thor's Physics-Defying Hammer, Mjölnir
The Unraveling of Secret Societies in Pop Cultural References
The Watered-Down Hunger Games Trilogy
Giving Thanks for TV Shows That End Before Their Time
Can Ben Affleck Successfully Suit Up as the Dark Knight?
Chris Baker Responds to YouTubers About Kick-Ass 2 and the Real-Life Superheroes Trend
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and the Evolution of CG Dragons
Chris Baker’s Favorite Christmas Movie of All Time
Riddick and Hollywood's Failed Attempts at Using POV Cameras
The Big Bang Theory’s Shortcomings and Inaccurate Portrayal of Geek Culture
Will Disney Ruin Star Wars?
The Most Famous Female Comic Book Character is a Franchise Flop
The Unnecessary RoboCop Remake
Late Night with Seth Meyers and Stale After-Hours Talk Shows
How to Improve the Academy Awards
Mr. Peabody & Sherman and Today’s Remakes of Classic Cartoons
The Veronica Mars Movie Project and the Pitfalls of Crowdfunding Films
Fox News’ Abundant & Unnecessary Use of Big-Area Touch Screens
Captain America’s Unrealistic Vibranium Shield
The Problem with Game of Thrones
Hasbro, Your "Magic: The Gathering" Movie Is Murdering My Childhood
How Hollywood Can Get Evil Twins Right
Why Exactly Is Parkour Not a Film Genre Yet?
Networks Somehow Find Another Way to Resurrect Old Shows
The Greatest Fictional Characters Ever All in One Show? Sign Me Up
Why the New Godzilla Movie Won’t Suck
The Madness of the Timeline Mashup in the New X-Men
Why Disney Needs to Make More Movies About Classic Villains
Why Edge of Tomorrow is of the Greatest Movie About Video Games, Ever
Is Darth Disney Destroying Star Wars’ Expanded Universe?
Why Clint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys” is Destined to Crash & Burn on the Big Screen
Death to the Superhero Comic-Book Movie … But Not All Comic-Book Movies
Why Andy Serkis is the Greatest Actor of His Generation
Give Me a Standalone Comic-Book Movie or Give Me Death
Reboots We Need Way More Than "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
Brett Ratner's Hercules & Pillaging Story Lines for Big-Budget CGI Films