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  • The Emmys: Who Is Host Seth Meyers Rooting For?

    The Emmy Awards are coming on Monday night and host Seth Meyers is still in preparation mode.

    The TV veteran and funnyman is getting ready for his Emmys hosting duties and trying to shake off those butterflies.

    “Butterflies tend to go away with the first laugh,” he says, “so you try to make that happen as early as you can.”

    He says he will adhere to the long-standing Emmys tradition of having an extended comedy segment at the beginning. The reason they do that is very understandable.

    “The longer the night goes, the less joy there is in the room, because by then a number of people have lost.”

    Clever thinking, Emmys producers.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu10Iuav2vo

    Meyers has a fun-filled evening planned and indicated that there would be room for flexibility, if needed.

    He is no tenderfoot when it comes to lighting up the screen.

    We all remember his great co-hosting gig on the Weekend Update segments of Saturday Night Live. He now sits in the coveted Late Night chair and is killing it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQg6U6jUk0

    So, who is Set Meyers rooting for at this year’s Emmys?

    Weekend Update co-host Amy Poehler, of course!

    Poehler is up for Best Actress for her role as Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation. This is her 11th nomination, but she has never won.

    “But here’s the good news,” said Meyers, “No matter which way it goes, I’m VERY confident she’s going to be OK.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rks-0naOjKk

    Seth Meyers said about that encouraging statement, “I don’t want anyone to think I’m this incredibly selfless person,” he added with a laugh. “The hard part is not when friends of mine lose an award, but when I lose. I like to remind them that they’re all winners, whereas, when I lose, I really feel like a loser!”

    That could be said of many things in life, couldn’t it? Good luck to Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler!

  • David Letterman Announces He Will Retire In 2015

    He is the one that has been around the longest of the current late night talk show hosts, and after many years on the air, David Letterman will finally be calling it quits with CBS in 2015.

    David Letterman has had his spot on The Late Show for the past 22 years, and is set to officially announce his retirement on the episode of the show that is set to air tonight. He has been on the air as a late night talk show host longer than anyone in TV history, and just passed the record set by Johnny Carson last year.

    It is truly the end of an era for late night with the exit of Letterman, and it will be interesting to see who will come in to replace him. The schedule of late night talk shows already switched around a lot in the past year with Leno leaving The Tonight Show, and being replaced by Jimmy Fallon. Seth Myers took over for Fallon in his regular time.

    David Letterman made his debut on The Late Show on August 3rd, 1993, and has outlasted several other talk hosts that have come and gone on other channels and time slots. He was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, being hailed as “one of the most influential personalities in the history of television, entertaining an entire generation of late-night viewers with his unconventional wit and charm.”

    Les Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corporation, spoke about the situation when saying “There is only one David Letterman. His greatness will always be remembered here, and he will certainly sit among the pantheon of this business. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to get to know Dave and to enjoy a terrific relationship. It’s going to be tough to say goodbye. Fortunately, we won’t have to do that for another year or so. Until then, we look forward to celebrating Dave’s remarkable show and incredible talents.”

    A timetable for the closing of the show has not been figured out yet, but it has been decided that it will be done sometime in 2015. He will be turning 67 years old next week, and has enjoyed great success with his show over the years.

    Prior to his 22 years with The Late Show, David Letterman got his start on Mary in 1978, which co-starred Mary Tyler Moore. Just a few months later, he appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson for the first time, where he would appear a total of 22 times, and become good friends with the legendary late night show.

    He also hosted a couple shows before getting to the current incarnation of The Late Show, including The David Letterman Show and Late Night With David Letterman.

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  • Seth Meyers: ‘Late Show’ Debut Review

    If you are a fan of Seth Meyers on Saturday Night Live, you most likely enjoyed his debut on Late Night.

    Meyers replaced Jimmy Fallon on Late Night. Fallon had a great run as the Late Night host with popular segments such as The History of Rap and Slow-jamming the News. He made his debut appearance as The Tonight Show’s host on February 17 with guests Will Smith and U2, as well as appearances from Robert De Niro, Kim Kardashian, Seth Rogen, Lady Gaga, and Stephen Colbert.

    Meyers’ first appearance as the host of Late Night garnered mixed reviews from audiences. He was able to transition his SNL persona to the talk show format smoothly, but based on some reviews, he still has to learn the ropes of delivering monologues. However, he did a good job “talking.” According to The Los Angeles Times, Meyers’ monologue was similar in style to his headline segment, Weekend Update.

    The debut show’s guests were Meyers’ friend Amy Poehler, another SNL alum, and Vice President Joe Biden. Poehler and Meyers were amusing to watch as they targeted insults at each other. Vice President Biden was also a delight, as he seemed comfortable, most likely because of Poehler’s presence. Poehler has already worked with the Vice President when she asked him to do a cameo on her show Parks and Recreation. The show was capped off with a musical performance by A Great Big World.

    Darren Franich from Entertainment Weekly also gave his opinion on the show, giving it a “B.” He said that he laughed more with Fallon’s The Tonight Show, but laughed at Meyers’ more than he did at Fallon.

    Just like other late night hosts, Meyers will be flying solo but has the support of friends. Fred Armisen, also a SNL alum, in leading the Late Night band. Armisen’s humor meshes well with Meyers’, probably because of their years together in SNL. Overall, critics say that Meyers’ had a good Late Night Debut.

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  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine Surprises Everyone At The Golden Globes

    If you told everyone that Brooklyn Nine-Nine was going to win multiple awards during last night’s Golden Globe ceremony, then most people probably would have told you that you were crazy.

    Andy Samberg even reacted to his nomination to someone on the Red Carpet when saying “I didn’t realize I was an actor” in his usual comedic way. Whether Andy Samberg considers himself an actor or not, his show was responsible for winning two awards last night.

    Brooklyn Nine-Nine collected a couple of huge surprises last night when it won for Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy and Andy Samberg received an award for the show with Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series-Musical or Comedy.

    Samberg was totally shocked at his win, and just about everyone else in the world was too. What made it even more special was the fact that another member of the SNL family was able to give him the award, Seth Myers. Andy Samberg beat out Jason Bateman, Don Cheadle, Jim Parsons and Michael J. Fox to win the award.

    When he accepted the award, he was clearly not prepared for the win and said “Oh no! I didn’t prepare anything. It wasn’t gonna happen. You guys — the Globes, right? Who knew?! I guess I’ll just thank everyone.” He thanked the usual suspects, Fox, the cast and creators, and with a bit of sarcasm, he thanked his “team” as some of the other winners had done.

    He then proceeded to laugh the entire time that Andy Samberg was accepting the win for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, partly because of the way that he was accepting it, and partly because of how funny it was that Brooklyn Nine-Nine even won.

    There were a number of awards that went the way that everyone was expecting and some that could have gone either way, but Brooklyn Nine-Nine was definitely not predicted to win.

    After premiering on Fox in September, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was the freshman nominee among powerhouse shows such as Parks and Recreation, Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory and the HBO fan favorite Girls, the other nominees in the category last night. Girls won last year, and many people were predicting it to win again this year.

    In a very surprising night for TV comedy, the Golden Globes have certainly given a warm welcome to Fox’s new comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and the show already has more wins than Parks and Recreation, which has been on for six seasons and is beloved by the fans.

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