This article will win a Pulitzer price.
So Seth Meyers said. To the camera. On Youtube.
As the first reporter to witness a tape of “Corrections,” A Youtube series where Meyer’s playfully takes up corrections from “Late night” Youtube commentators that have changed to a loved and sometimes wonderfully unpleasant show completely chose the host to make me part of that section’s story.
“Integrity is important, today more than ever, for today a Reporter has come to “corrections”. Yes, the national news finally wakes up to the fact that something special happens here, ”Meyers said as he sipped a cocktail.
The giving laughs from the staff who is present drilled down the nature of the inner joke of “corrections”, which is taped with an audience that consists only of writers, producers and crew members from the Meyer show. But since its inception during the pandemic, the internal-joke has gathered a loyal subsequent and encouraged Meyers to commit himself to this piece as hard as he can possibly cancel what he says is perhaps the “true version” by himself.
“The reality is that I get to be both sides of myself, because I’m really a nice, friendly person, but I’m also easily frustrated,” Meyers told me during a backstage interview after the tape. “I will put the nice, authentic version of myself in the show, and then I will put the frustrated, authentic version of myself in” corrections “.
Meyers acknowledged that his friend Pete Gross, whom he is known since they were both 18, once told him that “corrections” is where he most sees the guy as he is known since they were a beginner in college.
It all started during Covid. Meyers and his team were back in their studio of 30 rock, but taped the show without audience. The dake of lightning applause from a crowd full of tourists, Meyers found himself to try to find ways to make his crew laugh as he taped the show. But he also watered into the Youtube comments from “Late Night” for the first time. “Reading it, I just realized that people love it or they hate it, but the most fun thing for me was really pedantic, small corrections,” he recalled.
It was on the back of his mind when he stumbled upon a commentator who pointed out that his use of the word “legos” was incorrect – most of “legos” is actually “lego bricks.” He asked his executive producer and long creative partner Mike Shoemaker if they could record a short video of him who addressed the correction and put it online. It was only three minutes long, but even in the first part is the joy in Meyer’s face when his staff starts to crack up tangible.
“The crew was one of the most essential parts of getting through these covid shows. Because while I understood that we did things that people at home liked, it was so fun to surprise them, and then” corrections “only grew into this thing that became like a super inside joke for everyone,” he explained with a laugh.
When “corrections” have continued, Meyers has become more performatively frustrated by its Youtube commentators – called “Jackals” – while the comments continue to point out pedantic corrections to his show. The fans feed Meyer’s comic materials, and he in turn pleases to create a comedy plant that can be more serialized, more isular and missing politics every week, instead burns his writers or producers or crew with names to big laughs. “Corrections” is to quote Meyers, “for the real ones.”
It is also, even though it is on Youtube, where Meyers really channels their “late evening” predecessors. “Corrections” feels like an intersection between the dry, acerbian nature of David Letterman and the undamaged detention of Conan O’Brien, filtered by Meyer’s preference for a carefully designed phrase.
In fact, Meyers writes each section of “Corrections” by itself, and part of the excitement surprises the entire crew with the material every week – including shoemakers.
“It’s the only thing I have ever done in my entire comedy career that I have not run by shoemakers. It’s almost a reward for him, which is like,” I know I am to disturb you with every little thing I have ever done – literally I should show him texts to people and be like “Before I send this you will write?” “Meeyers laughed.
The most difficult part of putting together “corrections” is to browse through each comment – which Meyers does. He starts by combing the comments from the previous Thursday’s a closer look -segment, then he goes on to the previous week’s “corrections” which he said bears the most fruit. “This is where the shawls most populated, so often they will say something that helps you build a story,” he explained.
He speaks with the show’s director or props when he needs something special that week, which has varied from a rigged set of dolls that can explode in line with “Pop goes the weasel!” For a three-ring circus to a full size costume of Mac tonight, McDonald’s character from the 1980s. And he has become increasingly unobstructed with some of the show’s pieces – a episode saw him rush through because he “had to be somewhere” while another found someone who was clearly not Meyers who perform “corrections” that wear a course mask while Meyers made Voiceover insisted that he was actually there. Basically, what Christopher Nolan is too severe drama, Seth Meyers is to intricate comedyytology.
Through all, the shawls have followed and in the process has built a concerning supporting society in the different of places: Youtube comments. Meyers reads every comment on the “corrections” films and has found that they are often full of encouraging, positive messages between strangers.
“Really one of the nicest things in the world is when people say,” I go through a really difficult time “, and it makes me happy how much people will jump in and be like,” Hi, I’m really sorry you go through it. “It is a very difficult thing in this day and age to deduct a supportive online community, but it is fantastic.”
Witnessing Meyers performs “corrections” personally, it was striking to see how passionate he is to nail what corresponds to a one -man show. Despite the lack of a studio audience or looky-loos, there was no chit chat with his crew before cameras rolled. The usual suspects took their seats – shoemakers, author Seth Reiss, “A Closer Look” head author/producer Sal Gentile, buck over on the camera – and when Meyers came out he went straight to the desk, put his head down and got ready to perform.
He acknowledged Backstage that while he loves “late at night” on Thursdays when they band “corrections” afterwards, his NBC show feels like “a pre-show” to the main event.
“This may be my favorite thing I have ever done, which really. I think part of the reason is not what I do, it is so that the physical audience is my favorite people,” he said. “I think some of it makes it so special, which I think is what people who look at it and like it realize,” Oh, he doesn’t try to make me laugh, he tries to make these people laugh. “I think the affection that everyone who works on the show has for each other comes over.”
That evening in early May, a recurring gag had about my presence in the audience and a physical ank-anka-goose punchline that the audience was roaring. The silliness was a call from today’s more serious news, some Meyers covered “Late Night” less than an hour earlier. But for 14 minutes, Meyers put on a little show that he prepared for his close friends.
When I told Meyers that “corrections” felt a bit like his own “PEE-Wee’s Playhouse”, he returned to the origin of the show.
“The show really became a type of” PEE-Wee’s Playhouse “under Covid. The most connected I ever knew for my audience was Covid, because I realized I’m doing a show in an iPad, and most people watch it online,” he said. “So it happened for the worst possible reason, but it was something special, and what happens if we do something that is not about something horrible that happens, but is about that connection?”
