Seth Meyers Reveals How a Near-Panic Attack Led to ‘Day Drinking’
On Tuesday morning, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers celebrated 10 years on the air with a “brief” oral history that was released on YouTube.
About halfway through the 50-minute video, Meyers recounts the origin story of one of the show’s most popular segments, “Day Drinking,” in which Meyers and his guest head to a local bar and throw back a few drinks on NBC’s dime.
It all goes back to St. Patrick’s Day…
In the early days of the show, Meyers used to tape field pieces outside of Studio 8G, and one St. Patrick’s Day, they wound up at a local Irish bar in New York City.
Naturally, Meyers considers himself to be pretty good at talking to people, but he began to freak out on this particular assignment because the writer in him feared having to rely on crowds to be funny, or at...
About halfway through the 50-minute video, Meyers recounts the origin story of one of the show’s most popular segments, “Day Drinking,” in which Meyers and his guest head to a local bar and throw back a few drinks on NBC’s dime.
It all goes back to St. Patrick’s Day…
In the early days of the show, Meyers used to tape field pieces outside of Studio 8G, and one St. Patrick’s Day, they wound up at a local Irish bar in New York City.
Naturally, Meyers considers himself to be pretty good at talking to people, but he began to freak out on this particular assignment because the writer in him feared having to rely on crowds to be funny, or at...
- 3/19/2024
- by Jeff Sneider
- LateNighter
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