Robert De Niro directed The Good Shepherd, a CIA movie starring Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon.
“he directed a movie called The Good Shepherd. Uh, with Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon”
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Seth Meyers
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Seth Meyers went to Northwestern University intending to be a film major who wrote and directed movies.
“I went to college to be a film major, thought I wanted to write and direct movies”
Seth Meyers's parents attended Northwestern and his father took him to see The Second City when they toured the school.
“My parents went to Northwestern, they'd seen a lot of 2nd City. I remember when we went and looked at Northwestern, my dad brought me to 2nd City”
After college Seth Meyers waited tables at the Twisted Lizard in Chicago while doing improv.
“that was waiting tables at the Twisted Lizard, and there was that weird thing of you just kinda improvised”
Peter Gross told Seth Meyers about Boom Chicago auditions in Amsterdam, and both men auditioned and moved there.
“And he was the one who said, Hey, there's this theater in Amsterdam and they're having auditions.”
Seth Meyers spent two years in Amsterdam before returning to Chicago.
“And so then I spent 2 years in Amsterdam, I came back once again, my expectation was, I'll get back in line”
Ilene Cohen of the SNL talent department saw Seth Meyers perform at a small improv festival, which led to his SNL audition.
“this, uh, woman, Ilene Cohen, who worked in the SNL talent department, came to this tiny little improv festival where my partner and I were doing a 2-person show.”
SNL producer Mike Shoemaker advised Seth Meyers to write group scenes that could get on the show.
“What you should do is you should try to think of group scenes where you can score”
Seth Meyers says he pushed Lorne Michaels to let him anchor Weekend Update alone on the night after Amy Poehler went into labor.
“I think if you don't let me do it alone tonight, you're the it will just look like you don't think I can do it alone.”
Seth Meyers recalls that Amy Poehler's final Weekend Update before her son Archie's birth featured her rap about Sarah Palin.
“It must've been her last update before Archie was the the wrap to Sarah Palin, right?”
Seth Meyers's late-night show started in 2014, and he says it will have run 13 years by the following February.
“it started in 2014, so, yeah, it's February, it'll be 12 years. No, February, it'll be 13 years.”
About 18 months into his late-night show, Seth Meyers stopped doing a standing monologue and began the show at the desk.
“18 months into the show is when I was like, I'm gonna stop doing a standing monologue and I'm gonna start the show at the desk.”
Seth Meyers says being head writer of Saturday Night Live is what he is proudest of among his titles.
“the thing I'm proudest of is the fact that I was the head writer in SNL”
Seth Meyers hired Alex Baez, the Weekend Update head writer, as head writer of his own show, and Lorne Michaels had told him he could not have Baez.
“Alex Baez, who was the head writer at Weekend Update, was the one person I poached, uh, when I left”
Seth Meyers says his late-night show is taped at 4 in the afternoon and the team does not hold a postmortem the same day.
“we tape our show at 4 in the afternoon and we don't do a postmortem again.”
Seth Meyers says about 180 people are in the studio audience for his show.
“walking out into a studio where, you know, 180 people are there to watch”
Seth Meyers says his children are 10 and 8, and his daughter is almost 5.
“they're, uh, 10, 8, and, um, my daughter's almost 5.”
Seth Meyers supports the Red Sox, the Pirates to a lesser degree, and the Pittsburgh Steelers fully, because his father is from Pittsburgh.
“my dad's from Pittsburgh, so the Pirates to a smaller degree, and then, but the Steelers 100%.”