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Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: ‘He's Basically a Plum'
The Trump administration offered an explanation for the bruising spotted on the president's hands recently, calling it a result of constant contact with people. That reasoning thoroughly amused Seth Meyers on Tuesday night, specifically because of how Trump's followers see the man. During his monologue, the NBC host noted that the official White House statement on Trump's health issues said the bruising is 'consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking.' The explanation came shortly after social media users zeroed in on a photo of Trump's hands, which appeared to have a light shade of makeup covering his hands. More from TheWrap Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: 'He's Basically a Plum' | Video 'Wednesday' Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix The Future of Late Night Comedy: What's Lost When – Not if – It Goes Away Jessica Chastain-Led Limited Series 'The Savant' Sets September Premiere | Photos 'And I just love that his followers have to somehow reconcile this idea that he's this powerful, strong man, but also he gets bruises if you touch him,' Meyers said with a laugh. 'He's the indestructible savior of America, but also he's basically a plum.' Elsewhere in his monologue, Meyers poked fun at Trump's celebration of six months in office this week. In his social media post, Trump argued that 'time flies.' Meyers disagreed. 'Does it, though?' he said. 'It's been six months of this term, but we already did four years of you. And even when this guy was President, you were still the president of every news cycle.' At that, an image of former president Joe Biden appeared on screen, before Meyers pushed on. 'It feels like you've been president forever,' he said. 'I think it goes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and then you.' You can watch Seth Meyers's full monologue in the video above. The post Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: 'He's Basically a Plum' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: ‘He's Basically a Plum'
"I just love that his followers have to somehow reconcile this idea," the NBC host says The Trump administration offered an explanation for the bruising spotted on the president's hands recently, calling it a result of constant contact with people. That reasoning thoroughly amused Seth Meyers on Tuesday night, specifically because of how Trump's followers see the man. During his monologue, the NBC host noted that the official White House statement on Trump's health issues said the bruising is 'consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking.' The explanation came shortly after social media users zeroed in on a photo of Trump's hands, which appeared to have a light shade of makeup covering his hands. More from TheWrap Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: 'He's Basically a Plum' | Video 'Wednesday' Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix The Future of Late Night Comedy: What's Lost When – Not if – It Goes Away Jessica Chastain-Led Limited Series 'The Savant' Sets September Premiere | Photos 'And I just love that his followers have to somehow reconcile this idea that he's this powerful, strong man, but also he gets bruises if you touch him,' Meyers said with a laugh. 'He's the indestructible savior of America, but also he's basically a plum.' Elsewhere in his monologue, Meyers poked fun at Trump's celebration of six months in office this week. In his social media post, Trump argued that 'time flies.' Meyers disagreed. 'Does it, though?' he said. 'It's been six months of this term, but we already did four years of you. And even when this guy was President, you were still the president of every news cycle.' At that, an image of former president Joe Biden appeared on screen, before Meyers pushed on. 'It feels like you've been president forever,' he said. 'I think it goes Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and then you.' You can watch Seth Meyers's full monologue in the video above. The post Seth Meyers Tickled by Trump Team Saying He Gets Bruises From Too Many Handshakes: 'He's Basically a Plum' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
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21 hours ago
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Losing Stephen Colbert and the Late Show is a crushing blow, whatever the reason
Last Thursday, when Stephen Colbert announced on air that CBS had decided to cancel The Late Show, its flagship late-night comedy program, after 33 years in May of next year, I was shocked. For the better part of six years, I have watched every late-night monologue as part of my job at the Guardian (hello, late-night roundup), and though I often grumble about it, The Late Show has become a staple of my media diet and my principle source of news; as a millennial, I haven't known a television landscape without it. There are many bleaker, deadlier things happening daily in this country, and the field of late-night comedy has been dying slowly for years, but the cancellation of The Late Show, three days after Colbert called out its parent company for settling a lawsuit with Donald Trump, felt especially and pointedly depressing – more a sign of cultural powerlessness and corporate fecklessness in the face of a bully president than the inevitable result of long-shifting tastes. Reporting in the days since the announcement have lent some credence to CBS's claim that this was 'purely a financial decision'. Though The Late Show has led the field of late-night comedy in ratings for years, it only averages about 2.47 million viewers a night. Its ad revenue plummeted after the pandemic; Puck's Matthew Belloni reported that the show loses $40m for CBS every year. Of the network late-night shows – NBC's Late Night With Seth Meyers, The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! – Colbert's Late Show has the smallest footprint on social media, where Fallon's celebrity gags still reign supreme. The format of late-night television – a host delivering a topical monologue, house band, celebrity guest interviews – is a living relic of a different time, when a youth-skewing audience would reliably pop on linear television at 11.30pm. The field has been contracting for years, with programs hosted by Samantha Bee, James Corden and Taylor Tomlinson ending without replacement. Ad revenue for the genre as a whole is down 50% from just seven years ago, in the middle of Trump 1.0. It's long been assumed that the hosts currently in these once-coveted chairs would be the last, their programs expiring when they decided to step down. What's shocking is that Colbert, who was reportedly set to renegotiate his one-year contract at the end of this season, was not given that time, which just so happens to coincide with a critical window for the intended merger of CBS parent company Paramount with Skydance Media. Three days before the announcement, Colbert called Paramount's settlement with Trump a 'big fat bribe' to incentivize the administration's approval of this $8bn deal managed by two billionaire families. Regardless of Colbert's contract timing, it seems the cancellation of The Late Show is a financial decision, just not in the way CBS is framing it. It's not about the $40m The Late Show is losing per year – a lot of money, to be sure, though a drop in the bucket for the major players here – but the $8bn on the line with this merger. There were presumably other options; Late Night With Seth Meyers dispensed of its house band and musical acts last year to save money. With new billionaire ownership, there could be some business maneuvering, should independent political comedy be a priority. Colbert's Late Show, a leading critic of Donald Trump on network television, is clearly not; the show may have been a money loser, but in this context, it's a convenient sacrifice. And though it's easy to roll one's eyes at late-night television – I often do – it's an especially disappointing one, both in the culture at large and in the dwindling 11.35pm time slot. For years, I have argued that the late-night shows have long outstripped their original function as comedy programs. They are satirical, occasionally relevant, sometimes profane, but hardly ever funny, in the traditional sense of making you laugh. Often, they resort to so-called 'clapter' – laughter as a polite applause, jokes for agreement rather than laughter – in a deadening anti-Trump feedback loop. With the exception of The Daily Show, a cable program founded for the purpose of political satire, the shows basically serve two functions in the internet era: 1 Generate viral celebrity content as they promote another project, and 2 Comment freely on the news, unbound from the strictures of decorum, tone and supposed 'objectivity' that hamstrings so much journalism in the US. The latter was, I'd argue, the most important contribution of late-night television in the Trump era, when the president and his minions exceeded parody, and Colbert was the best at it. Nimble, erudite, self-deprecating but exceptionally well-read, Colbert transformed from extremely successful Fox News satirist to the reverend father of late-night TV: principled, authoritative but hardly ever self-righteous, deeply faithful to the American project, steadfastly believing in the decency of others. (Colbert is a practicing Catholic and die-hard Lord of the Rings fan, facts that sometimes snuck into his monologues.) At times, such old-school values felt insufficient for the moment; the format of late-night comedy as a whole has proven futile, even pathetic, in the face of Donald Trump's brand of shamelessness, the Maga movement's ability to turn everything into a joke. But these hosts, and the Daily Show-trained Colbert especially, did something that the rest of news media or the sprawling celebrity and comedian podcast network could not: call bullshit on the administration with the imprimatur of a major television network, and say exactly what they were feeling. That ability proved useful to me, as a viewer, at times when it seemed standard media was incapable of articulating what was happening. During the pandemic, or the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, or on January 6, or when Trump was re-elected, or when Republicans mocked Californians during the devastating LA wildfires earlier this year, late-night television had the freedom to express outrage, and Colbert in particular to express moral injury. The jokes were almost never surprising; they weren't really even jokes. But it still felt soothing to see someone say them, with corporate backing, at an institution that still carried enough name recognition to, well, merit a 'late-night roundup'. Colbert, ultimately, will be fine. He is a skilled comedian whose talents weren't always well-tapped by the strict format of late-night comedy. Perhaps he will join the legion of comedians with podcasts, speaking directly to fans; perhaps he will release a special. But his absence from late-night television spells doom for the rest of the format, and more importantly for freedom of speech on the big networks. Late-night comedy has been fighting a losing battle for a long time, and The Late Show was never going to out-influence the rising tide of rightwing media, the manosphere or any number of independent shows in a fracturing media landscape. But the fact that he could try, from one of the more famed perches in television, still meant something.
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Letterman Shows Support for Colbert by Posting Old Clips of Him Roasting CBS
David Letterman has weighed in on the 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' cancellation, albeit in his own very Letterman-esque way. The former 'Late Show' host and originator of the CBS program posted a 20-minute compilation of clips from his show where he made fun of the network, captioning the YouTube video, 'You can't spell CBS without BS.' Titled 'CBS: The Tiffany Network,' the video includes nearly a decade of zingers from Letterman against his network, and comes on the heels of CBS' decision to cancel 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' More from TheWrap Letterman Shows Support for Colbert by Posting Old Clips of Him Roasting CBS Seth Meyers Suspects Epstein Regretted Telling Trump Anything After the President Would Casually Mention Secrets | Video Inside Disney+'s Bet on Short-Form News With ABC's 'What You Need to Know' What's Next for Stephen Colbert After 'The Late Show' Cancellation? On Monday night, late night hosts rallied around Colbert after Thursday's shocking announcement. Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart and John Oliver all appeared on 'Late Show' as part of a 'kiss cam' bit, while Stewart devoted his entire 'Daily Show' segment to supporting Colbert and dinging Paramount (which also owns 'The Daily Show') for its decision to scrap the late night host's show. 'My God, when CDs stopped selling, they didn't just go, 'Oh well, music, it's been a good run.' The fact that CBS didn't try to save their number one rated network late night franchise that's been on the air for over three decades is part of what's making everybody wonder, was his purely financial, or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion dollar merger?' Stewart said, referring to the planned merger of Paramount Global with David Ellison's Skydance Media. Colbert, meanwhile, took direct aim at his parent company as well on Monday night's episode of 'Late Show.' 'Over the weekend, somebody at CBS followed up their gracious press release with a gracious anonymous leak saying they pulled the plug on our show because of losses pegged between $40 million and $50 million a year,' he said in his monologue. '$40 million is a big number. I could see us losing $24 million but where would Paramount have possibly spent the other $16 million? Oh, yeah,' Colbert joked, referring of course to the amount Paramount paid Donald Trump to settle the frivolous lawsuit he filed accusing '60 Minutes' of deceptively editing its Kamala Harris interview More to come… The post Letterman Shows Support for Colbert by Posting Old Clips of Him Roasting CBS appeared first on TheWrap.
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Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Jon Stewart Support Stephen Colbert in Coldplay Kiss-Cam Inspired Spoof
Colbert's competitors put aside their rivalry to show support for the longtime 'Late Show' host Stephen Colbert picked up some support from his fellow late night comedians to kick off The Late Show's first full week since being canceled. The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon, Late Night's Seth Meyers, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart and Last Week Tonight's John Oliver all made unannounced cameos on the show. At the start of the episode, Colbert read President Donald Trump's July 18 Truth Social post celebrating his cancelation. He then noted that Trump predicted Jimmy Kimmel would be next. "Absolutely not, Kimmel. I am the martyr, OK?" Colbert joked. "There's only room for one on this cross, and I got to tell you, the view is fantastic from up here! I can see your house!" "For the next 10 months, the gloves are off," Colbert later said. "I can finally speak unvarnished truth to power and say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now. I don't care for him." Later, Colbert brought out Lin-Manuel Miranda and Weird Al Yankovic to perform a song to cheer up the audience. They chose a Coldplay song, and the camera picked out couples in the crowd, a reference to the viral kiss-cam drama from over the weekend. Colbert's camera spotted Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen (who gave Cooper a big smooch), then Meyers and Fallon, before spotting Happy Gilmore 2 stars Adam Sandler and Christopher McDonald. Oliver and Stewart were also in the crowd. Next, the cameras spotted the cartoon Trump from Our Cartoon President holding a Paramount logo. At that point, Colbert told Miranda and Yankovic that their performance was canceled due to a "purely financial decision." The show of unity from Colbert's colleagues and competitors came after CBS' stunning decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert after 10 seasons on July 17. The network said the decision was 'purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.' However, the cancellation came three days after Colbert, 61, criticized CBS' parent company, Paramount, over its $16 million settlement with President Donald Trump, who alleged that CBS News' 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Paramount is seeking a merger with Skydance, which requires approval from Trump's administration. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Kimmel, who, like Colbert, has been a vocal critic of Trump's administration, was quick to respond. 'Love you Stephen. F— you and all your Sheldons CBS,' Kimmel wrote on Instagram. The comedian was mentioned in Trump's July 18 Truth Social post, in which he celebrated the Late Show's cancellation and called for Jimmy Kimmel Live to be next. Kimmel responded to that message by posting a photo of himself and his family protesting Trump while on vacation. "I'm just as shocked as everyone. Stephen is one of the sharpest, funniest hosts to ever do it," Fallon, whom Trump referred to as 'the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show,' wrote on Instagram on July 17. "I really thought I'd ride this out with him for years to come. I'm sad that my family and friends will need a new show to watch every night at 11:30. But honestly, he's really been a gentleman and a true friend over the years — going back to The Colbert Report, and I'm sure whatever he does next will be just as brilliant." 'For as great a comedian and host he is, Stephen Colbert is an even better person,' Meyers wrote in a post on his Instagram Stories. 'I'm going to miss having him on TV every night but I'm excited he can no longer use the excuse that he's 'too busy to hang out' with me.' Fallon later mentioned Colbert's cancelation in his Tonight Show monologue, joking that CBS could lose "millions of viewers plus tens of hundreds watching on Paramount+" if viewers boycott. Colbert's tenure on The Late Show will end its 10-year run in May 2026. The Late Show debuted with David Letterman as host in 1993. Read the original article on People Solve the daily Crossword
