Late-night host Seth Meyers admitted to shifting his tone after President Donald Trump was elected a second time during an interview on Tuesday and held a meeting about it with his team.Nayeema Raza, host of the "Smart Girl Dumb Questions" podcast, asked Meyers if political comedy makes people feel too comfortable.Meyers said it was a concern but that he didn't know how else to approach it.
He also said he didn't want to sound the alarm about the Trump administration every night on his show."We did have this like tonal conversation at our show, because again, we did not, I mean, twice now, we have been shocked that he has been elected, right? First time more than second, but the second time we sat down with everybody," he said. "I'm like, 'Look, I don't think we can tonally be the same that we were for the first four years, right? I think it's going to be different, and it's going to feel different, and it will also — it will feel like, I don't know, just a little like neutered if we're like going through the motions again,'" Meyers continued.TRUMP IS 'UNFETTERED' AND MORE COMFORTABLE WITH POWER IN HIS SECOND TERM, JOURNALISTS SAYSeth Meyers appears during "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Thursday, Oct.8, 2026.
(Lloyd Bishop/NBC via Getty Images)"And so what we do and like what I go out and tell the audience before the show every night is like, 'Look, this show is joyful to do.This is joyful to have you here.
And like there's a real strength and joy.' Like, so what we're talking about isn't joyous, but like we — I don't want to perform with like the weight of it all on top of me," he said. "I want to be like honest about it," Meyers added."We want to get our facts right.
But we think there's a strength in, like, sort of being joyful about the fact that we're all together agreeing how f---ing crazy this is."The late-night host also addressed Jimmy Kimmel's suspension during the interview.Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" was suspended in 2025 afte...