After the Writers Guild strike derailed his annual routine final yr, Late Night time host Seth Meyers returned to the stage of Radio Metropolis Music Corridor Monday morning throughout NBCUniversal‘s upfront presentation, the place he took purpose on the leisure business, and his personal firm.
Listed below are a few of Meyers’ prime jokes from the occasion.
On Fox Information: “Howdy and welcome to the NBC upfronts, in the event you’re searching for the Fox Information upfront, that’s taking place outdoors a decrease Manhattan courthouse.”
On Paramount: “To not brag, it’s been an excellent day for me, I discovered $20 on the road this morning. Lengthy story brief, I’m one of many two finalists for Paramount.”
On promoting: “Good time to be me. Let’s be trustworthy, it’s a good time to be you. It should really feel so gratifying that ultimately everybody comes again to promoting. Keep in mind when streamers advised you we’re gonna do tv a brand new approach, so I’m afraid we gained’t be needing your little commercials anymore.’ Lower to some years later, each episode of Shogun is interrupted by ‘Whopper Whopper Double Whopper.’”
“If that is your first time at upfronts, I’m so sorry. You’re most likely so excited, somebody within the workplace pointing to you and mentioned ‘Sheila’s by no means been to upfront, Ought to we ship Sheila this yr?’ and when she obtained on a airplane to New York and she or he got here to Radio Metropolis, I’m guessing like an hour in the past you began to suppose ‘what in God’s identify is that this.’”
“Permit me to elucidate, the upfronts are the place we promote advertisements for NBC’s wonderful lineup of exhibits, properly, not my present. My present is on at 12:30 within the morning, so as a substitute of the upfronts we promote ours on the outbacks. Trying to get into Late Night time? Come see me out again.
“With a reputation like upfronts, you’d suppose we’d be trustworthy and upfront about every little thing however that tends to not be the case. For instance, I’m gonna allow you to guys in on one thing: Not each branding alternative is exclusive. Typically it’s only a common outdated branding alternative. Once you say distinctive branding alternative you sound like the blokes in Glengarry Glen Ross.”
On Peacock: “Peacock continues to show that the best option to make a billion {dollars}, is to spend eight.”
On NBC exhibits: “You bear in mind Deal or No Deal? It’s on an island now… Deal or No Deal was all the time an amazing present. So admit I used to be shocked that shifting it to an island labored so properly. I like Jeopardy, however I don’t suppose I’d watch it extra if it was within the woods.
“Legislation and Order SVU has been renewed for its twenty fifth season and — that is cool — It’s been on so lengthy, the criminals from season one are actually eligible for parole.”
“There’s an thrilling new present, NBC has introduced a brand new drama referred to as The Looking Get together. It stars South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, and the canine from Frasier. I’d say Kristi Noem would make an excellent Actual Housewife, However Andy Cohen advised me she’s so much and if he says it…”
On Bravo: “Bravo introduced the Vanderpump Guidelines spin off The Valley has been renewed for one more season. They’ve additionally picked up one thing from Tom Sandoval and are ready to study if it’s contagious.”
On Linda Yaccarino: “NBC is launching a brand new journey competitors sequence referred to as Vacation spot X, or because it was initially titled The Linda Yaccarino Story.”