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This Week in Late Night: Seth Meyers’s Ice-Cream Date With the President
The late-night host handled the deeply 21st-century experience of becoming news very well this week.
Commenting on Biden’s assertion that he thinks a cease-fire could come as early as Monday, Stephen Colbert said, “That’s a very statesmanlike response, and a reason to kindle hope — if he hadn’t said it directly into a scoop of mint chip.” Michael Kosta on The Daily Show said all politicians should start eating ice cream everywhere they go in order to get out of answering difficult questions. He chastised himself for doing bad crowd work in the store, acknowledged the surreal Curb Your Enthusiasm– like nightmare he found himself in and didn’t lose sight of the real issue: the massive loss of life happening before our eyes. Every moment of “normal life” I steal during this crisis feels like getting ice cream with Biden: weird, tone-deaf, broadcast on social media, and frankly, not seasonally appropriate.
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