Seth Meyers discusses debate in primetime special “A Closer Look”

Seth Meyers praised the “most damn close look we’ve ever had in our damn lives” on Wednesday night when the Late at night The segment was moved to prime time and took an in-depth look at Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Tuesday’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump drew a much larger audience than the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, with many arguing that Harris performed far better than Trump.

Meyers began his analysis with a section on conservative pundits’ attempts to whitewash the former president’s lackluster performance, citing a clip arguing that at least Trump’s opening and closing remarks made a good impression.

“If you just look at those two parts, the first impression and the last impression, you might not get the impression that he did it all well,” the commentator said.

“That’s a good point, a very good point,” Meyers said. “Anyone who follows a debate that way, yes, anyone who tunes in at 9 a.m., falls asleep at 9:03 a.m. and then wakes up 89 minutes later, might think, ‘Hey, Trump did pretty well!'”

Meyers’ complete monologue “A Closer Look,” which normally lasts about 12 minutes, at the beginning of a Late at night The episode lasted a total of about 50 minutes during the primetime show and was recorded live.

The Late at night The moderator also addressed Trump’s earlier statement that he would agree to multiple debates with Harris, but on Tuesday the former president appeared to backtrack on that statement after the debate ended.

“Because the first one was a disaster and the second one would be super entertaining,” Meyers said before playing a clip of Harris’ victory speech after her performance. “She has the charisma of a mother making a toast at a wedding after two glasses of wine.”

He later showed a clip of Trump claiming his approval ratings were improbably high and joked that the former president had taken the numbers from his Approval Statistics System (ASS).

“I like the idea that Trump thinks he can improve a terrible debate performance by going into the spin room and shouting random numbers like he’s behind the counter at a deli,” Meyers said.

He then addressed the news that Taylor Swift had endorsed the Harris-Walz contingent, which broke shortly after the debate ended on Tuesday. Meyers played a clip of Tim Walz learning of the endorsement on live television.

“This is the face of a man who just realized he’s one step closer to getting his Taylor Swift tickets,” Walz said. “He’s beaming. He looks like he just found out that Menards is having a special deal on gutters and 10 percent off leaf blowers.”

After a commercial break, Meyers addressed the relevance of the debate, pointing out his prime-time slot.

“I don’t have to tell you that the stakes of this debate couldn’t have been higher,” Meyers said. “I was moved from 12:30 to 10. If you see me on TV before you’ve put on your pajamas, that’s an emergency.”

Later in his monologue, Meyers also addressed Trump’s viral comments about people eating cats and dogs in Ohio. When moderator David Muir refuted Trump’s claims, the former president responded, “People on TV are saying my dog ​​was kidnapped and used as food.”

“If you don’t want to look like a crazy old man, there’s no worse phrase than, ‘The people on TV said so,'” Meyers said.

He continued: “Trump was fact-checked multiple times last night, but Harris was not fact-checked at all. And yes, there are certainly things to quibble about with Harris, but it’s one thing to fact-check someone on their exact position on fracking. It’s quite another to say no, people don’t eat dogs.”