Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers john oliver, awardwinning sports announcer joe buck an allnew a closer look, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Well, thats good to hear. Lets get to the news. President trump on tuesday granted a ceremonial thanksgiving pardon to a turkey named corn no such luck for the turkey named cohen. Following the news yesterday that the stock markets Dow Jones Industrial average hit an alltime high of 30 thousand points, President Trump interrupted a White House Press briefing to take credit for the milestone. Dude, its because youre leaving. Thats like Harvey Weinstein taking credit for how much safer everyone feels in hollywood now. According to a new poll, 60 of voters would support president elect joe biden canceling up to 50 thousand of Student Loan Debt per person perfect for everyone who went to nyu for a week president elect j
A your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and singular how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with people being you know more social a distance and going much more things on earth theyre realizing how much humor that they used to have in their life that theyre now missing because you no longer you know always conversation with your coworkers you dont have to meet up with friends and even with strangers if you are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress and dont relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in. Talk that humor has to be p
Allah can do so because his inner is more so think shevardnadze humor can be a life that in dark times when it seems we have nothing to laugh about at all but how is todays reality transforming what we find funny. They swear that target humor interior and best selling author. And guitar in him are engineer and bestselling writer great to have you with us today what a time to talk about humor. Absolutely its one of those times where people are like is. Is it ok to talk about humor and in fact its one of those things where its definitely right so lets lets to construct this whole thing your self described humor engineer and you write books on how to master humor make jokes funny and sing care how you are in this wonderful hero of 2020 do you see that the demand for humor is actually rising against a backdrop of the complete mass of everything or not really. Know it it absolutely is and i think part of the reason is you know with. You know more social a distance to go on much more things
You know all a conversation with your coworkers you dont have those and you want to meet up with friends and even with strangers and people are wearing a mask you dont see this smiles in the last on their faces and so i think now more than ever isnt it really into how we use humor not just for our own kind of amusement but also to do things like manage stress in built relationships and you know all the additional good its you are youve sat in attack talk that humor has to be positive and inclusive but heres the thing isnt humor supposed to be just funny 1st and foremost sins that that like the most important thing in humor and then Everything Else. So thats true for comedy comedy is the goal is to make people laugh but we think is a little bit more broad than comedy it includes things that are funny but it can also be something thats just a little bit different or something is a little bit silly where the goal is. And our focus at least you know as a humor engineer at my organization i
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers amy adams, author and journalist, adam davidson, featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening. Im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear in that case, lets get to the news President Trump announced last night that he was instructing his administration to begin cooperating with president elect joe bidens transition team. Wow id say, what took you so long . But ill be honest, this is way sooner than i thought. I figured youd hide out in the basement for the next four years like the family in parasite. Im just kidding that family has way more money than you thats right, President Trump is instructing his administration to begin cooperating with joe bidens transition team. If nothing else, itll be Good Practice for cooperating with law enforcement. Though im not sure if trump understands what cooperating with the transition means, because he told melania, go with