-Welcome back, everybody. Seth Meyers is joining us here.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Congrats on the new book.
How is everything on "Late Night"?
-It's great. As you know,
nothing like having an audience back.
It's so much fun. -It's the greatest.
-It's the best. -All that energy.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
-But you're always -- I mean, when I first met you,
I know you did improv in Amsterdam.
-Yep. -And you know a live crowd.
You work off a live crowd, but you became really good
at delivering jokes with no audience.
-It was fun. I don't know if you felt this,
but when nothing gets a laugh, they kind of all get a laugh?
[ Laughter ]
It's impossible to bomb when nothing's getting a laugh.
-Exactly right. -They're all -- They're all --
-But no one can laugh, though. Like, not even like Wally.
-Yeah. -No camera operators.
-No, if someone -- If my wife accidentally laughed
in the background, I'd be like, "Now you blew it."
-"Now you blew it." [ Laughter ]
-"Now people know these can be judged."
[ Laughter ] -Exactly right, yeah.
I saw one of your day-drinking segments,
which are so funny -- Rihanna.
And then you did one with Forte. -Yeah.
-And I'm, like, "Oh, man."
-It was so -- I mean, you know Will.
You've worked with him as well.
It is so fun.
I already knew he was fun to drink with, so there was no --
There was no stress about "How is this going to turn out?"
-Of course not. Yeah.
-It was crazy that it counted as work.
-Well, he's one of the funniest people on Earth.
And you did something where you dared him to make you break,
to make you laugh. -Yeah.
-And this happened.
And the Internet really --
This is bizarre. He got right in your face.
-Yeah, people pointed something out.
[ Laughter ]
-That is your nose.
Can we zoom in even -- Your nose is bent in half.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Did you know your nose could do that?
-I didn't know it could do that.
I think -- I saw that and I think technically
I could fold it into an origami swan.
[ Laughter ] -Wow, that's a talent.
-That's a talent.
-Yeah, not many people can do that. Wow.
And did he -- He broke you, huh?
-He broke me. -Of course he did.
-I mean, he is -- The thing about Forte was
never push him because his line was farther than your line.
-Always. You do a bit on the show also --
off the show, but it's online, called "Corrections."
-"Corrections," yeah. -Which is very --
I think it's a brilliant idea. Did it start from some fan?
-Yeah. So, you know, via Twitter and via YouTube comments,
especially during the pandemic, YouTube comments were, you know,
a hurtful and helpful way
of finding out how the show was going.
-That's correct.
-And there was this thing I did by accident.
I said "Legos."
And you're not supposed to say Legos.
The plural of Lego is Lego.
So you want to teach your kids that so that that way,
when they say to other kids, "Actually it's Lego,"
those kids will know yours is an [bleep]
[ Laughter ]
And that will just save time for everybody.
-That should be the next book.
[ Laughter ]
-No, but it's Lego, or you can say Lego bricks.
-Ah. You can't say Legos.
-But it turns out there's a lot of Lego fans out there
who were pretty upset about it.
And so over the course of three shows,
I kept trying to correct the correction
and I kept getting it wrong.
I said, "It's not -- You should say Lego.
It's Lego blocks."
And then they would say, "Not Lego blocks, Lego bricks."
And I'm like, "It's Lego br--" And then I realized,
oh, it's really fun -- the idea -- like, it sort of
takes the sting out of people correcting you for tiny errors
if you address every one of them.
So I do basically 15 minutes at the end of each week on YouTube
where I just read through YouTube comments.
And it's been actually very informative.
I'm learning a lot of things.
-Really? -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-What's a favorite correction? -So, for example, I heard
Benjamin Franklin's wife's name is Deborah,
and I said "That's really funny to me 'cause that doesn't
sound like a Revolutionary War name."
Like Deborah -- I would've assumed the first Deborah
was born in like 1961. Anyway.
Then people said, "Actually no, Deborah is a name in the Bible."
And I said, "That's shocking.
That would be like if you heard, like,
there was a Candace in the Bible."
And then they were like,
"There's a Candace in the Bible."
[ Laughter ] -Wow.
-Yeah. So when you do corrections, you just realize
you're never going to get everything right
and that gives you the freedom to continue
getting things wrong. -Wow.
I wonder if people will find something that you said tonight.
-Oh, I'm sure they will. I secretly buried seven mistakes.
[ Laughter ] -That's why he's a genius.
Seth Meyers, everybody. [ Cheers and applause ]
Congrats on the baby, and congrats on the new book.
Seth Meyers -- "I'm Not Scared, You're Scared"
is available now wherever books are sold.
And "Late Night" airs weeknights on NBC right after us.