Seth Meyers addressed Tim Walz’ nomination because the Democratic Vice President nominee on Monday evening, following his present’s hiatus.
Late Night time with Seth Meyers returned on Monday after a three-week break; The Late Present with Stephen Colbert had been off for 2.
Throughout his “A Closer Look” monologue on Monday, Meyers reviewed a whirlwind record of information occasions he missed, together with Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and now-nominee Kamala Harris naming Walz as her working mate.
Meyers additionally addressed the latest surge in consideration towards Democratic criticism of the GOP, calling leaders of the Republican Occasion “weird.” The development took off after a Morning Joe look from Walz previous to Harris selecting him, and has shortly unfold all through the get together, with Democratic pundits in every single place now centering their criticisms of Republicans with the outline “weird.” Understandably, many credit score Walz with beginning the phenomenon.
In the course of the present Monday, Meyers mentioned his favourite of Donald Trump’s responses to the “weird” criticism was when he mentioned, “Nobody’s ever called me weird.”
“I made a whole career out of it,” Meyers mentioned in response. “That was the original title of his show. In fact — that brings us to a new segment called Seth Has a Bone to Pick with Democrats.”
The Late Night time present then launched into a montage of many of the instances Meyers has known as the Republicans bizarre, and mentioned: “Hey, Democrats. I don’t mind you guys calling Republicans weird, but maybe you throw a citation out there next time you do. I don’t want to brag or anything, but we’ve been banging the ‘Republicans are weird’ drum for like five years.”
The montage ended with Walz’ well-known Morning Joe interview.
“Tim Walz says it once on TV and he’s the VP nominee,” Meyers mentioned. “Meanwhile, I didn’t even make the short list. Is it because he was a high school football coach and I once caught a football wrong playing flag, and still have a janky knuckle on my right ring finger?”
He went on to point out the viewers his finger and inform them, fittingly, that it appears to be like “super weird.”
