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Seth Meyers’s Proudest Milestones and Wisest Comedy-Writing Hacks


Plus the joke he’ll defend to the death.

When he acts out scrounging underneath his couch for misplaced dice because one of his kids came in “too hot” while playing a board game, he is not the host of Late Night; he is a beaten-down dad discussing the trials of raising small children. And when he talks about being inconvenienced by his brother’s decision to become a vegan, he’s not SNL ’s former head writer and “Weekend Update” anchor; he’s a middle-aged man coming to terms with the changing values of those around him. “Sometimes, we’ll have a hiatus week and people will say, ‘Are you gonna relax?’” he said of his late-night show during our wide-ranging conversation prior to Dad Man Walking ’s October 26 release.

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