The time fly when you are hosting the late night show four times a week. But Seth Mayors admitted that it took some time to feel comfortable as the host of “Late Night with Seth Mayors”, marking its 10th anniversary.
“This is a trip when you receive a show in this way,” he recently said in an interview on Zoom.
It took about six months to establish “a base line of confidence”. Over time, he decided to leave the late night tradition of standing for an inauguration monologue in favor of sitting on his desk to the entire show.
“Once people stopped looking at my feet, we turned into a corner,” he jokingly. He also wears more casual clothes instead of a suit.
In the last decade, the mayors have launched signature segments, including “A Closure Look”, in which the current events have been deeply taken. He is also on day-to-day tour with celebrities like Rihanna and Dua Lipa and gives his writers an opportunity to convince a joke that he wrote that there was no land.
“It is fun to talk about a joke that goes badly, because any writer will tell you, you work as hard on jokes on that bomb,” they say.
The digital chain is also “reform”, where the Mayors responded to the YouTube comments indicating their mistakes. It is especially written by the mayors and tape in front of the crew members on Thursday night, with a Negroni at the desk.
The Mayors will celebrate the show’s milestone in Monday’s episode, with the partner “Saturday Knight Live” alum Amy Pahaller. In a conversation with the Associated Press edited for briefness and clarity, the mayor reflects his favorite moments – and its goal to reach 25 years of working in NBC Building at 30 Rockfeller Center.
AP: Some of your favorite moments of your show were wild stories of your son’s (very early) births. Are you happy you have shared?
Mayors: Both times my boys were born, it was really special that it would be a really good historical record to go into it and speak of cuff about it, knowing that it one day. Ash, which I thought, was the story of the most madness, was born earlier. He was born on a Sunday, and I took off on Monday. And then Axel’s birth was so good that I remembered my wife on Sunday saying, “I think I had to go to set.” He was so, “Yes, I have found it.”
AP: Why did you decide to wear a suit on the air and stop clothes more carelessly?
Mayors: It seemed foolish that wearing a suit with someone there looked foolish (during the epidemic), so I was in casual clothes. Then when the audience returned, I just felt more in my skin. More dressing like myself allows me to be more like myself. And I don’t know that it is permanent, but it is a good feeling. The next day I put a suit for something else and it was just, “Blake!” I like that I never feel like this.
Seth Mayors take a look at this loss, President Donald Trump will be left behind as we learn more about the rebellion and complexity of the GOP.
AP: “A closure look” came during the “Trump administration”. And here we are in another presidential election year, running for reunion with Trump. What are your thoughts creatively?
Mayors: We just have to answer what is happening in the world. “A close look” for us has always been Catheric to write, and we hope that it is Catheric to see. We are happy to make this segment in our shows that can take all the news. It definitely feels like Deja Wu in a way. Which is sleepy.
AP: You often mention and bring them by the name of your authors during the show. Why?
Mayors: I probably still recognize more than writers than something else, and I like to be a part of a writing staff. Above the epidemic, when it was just a crew, you could blame a writer on a writer and achieve a laugh because they knew them. … you are showing people a little behind the curtain.
AP: You also have a very connivance style for interview, with no Q card. Does it lend to the type of guests you ideally want in the show?
Mayors: There is a level of guests that will take us all, and I am sure you and I can name both those names. And then you have a chance to be selective in a way that you think the DNA of your show is. We are always looking for guests who are slightly more offbeat or perhaps better with my vibe. Now you do shows to create synergy with people, you are really excited, for example, the back back of James Spider, which is one of my favorite guests. You only have to ask him a question and he talks throughout the day. Dakota Johnson was also a recent guest, who has a vibe that is his own. Interviewing him does not feel like an interview, and it makes it really fun.
AP: Will you do this work in 10 years?
Mayors: I don’t know. I have tried in my career to never thought further. I would like to do it for a few more years. I cannot imagine being more pleasant than that. I have been coming for 25 years on 30 rocks, and I am sure I will get a watch. Or maybe a good pen. I will tell you this, if I do not make it up to 25, there should be an investigation because it may mean that they do not want to spend so much money.