YouTube star Lilly Singh gets her own late-night show, will replace Carson Daly on NBC

YouTube star Lilly Singh only left the platform in November, but she’s already got a new stage.
The Indian-Canadian YouTuber, actress, and author known as IISuperwomanII will take over the late night NBC slot held by Carson Daly, whose show Last Call…

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Still spinning? Seth Meyers offers up handy breakdown of Michael Cohen’s testimony

Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress on Wednesday, in what Seth Meyers called “truly one of the most eventful days in the Trump presidency.”
The Late Night host thankfully provided a comprehensive, hilar…

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Seth Meyers doesn’t think much of Trump’s criticism of Spike Lee’s Oscars speech

There was no direct mention of Trump at the Oscars, except for Spike Lee’s hint at choosing “love versus hate” at the 2020 presidential elections. 
That still prompted a response from the president, and subsequently from Seth Meyers during L…

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Seth Meyers slams Trump’s golf trip: ‘In a real emergency, no one goes to the omelette bar’

Late Night host Seth Meyers absolutely eviscerated Trump’s press conference regarding his declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall.
Tackling Trump’s speech delivered at the White House on Friday, Meyers noticed it was “less of…

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Seth Meyers slams Virginia governor’s response to racist yearbook photo

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After a racist photo on his 1984 yearbook page surfaced on Friday, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was called on to resign. So, he held a press conference to prove he’s not a racistIt didn’t go well.

It was almost too easy for Seth Meyers, who took “A Closer Look” at the controversy on Monday, and in particular, the governor’s backtracking on whether the image of a man wearing blackface, and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, actually featured him. 

After apologising for being in the photo, Northam later changed his story, claiming he knew he wasn’t in it. Why? He pointed to another time he wore blackface, when he performed a Michael Jackson routine in a dance contest. Really. Read more…

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Seth Meyers absolutely slams Trump’s rejected shutdown offer

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Feeling a little lost on where we’re at with the longest government shutdown in American history?

For “A Closer Look” on Monday, Late Night host Seth Meyers unpacked Donald Trump’s (undeniably breathy) speech about the shutdown, and his rejected deal to end it — and land that $5.7 billion for his border wall.

As Meyers points out, Trump’s deal which offered limited protections for young, undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers — more specifically, three-year extensions on DACA and TPS protections — was rejected by Democrats and hard-line conservatives alike. And as Meyers put it, the offer wasn’t the most solid proposal. Read more…

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Seth Meyers is Bill Cosby’s new cellmate on ‘Saturday Night Live’

You might think it’s hard to wring any humor out of the Bill Cosby saga but Saturday Night Live gave it a go, turning some entertainment prison tropes on their head.
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