After eight years and hundreds “Looks Closer” at the turmoil of American politics, Late Night with Seth Meyers Finally recognized by the Academy of Television.
As the nominations for the Outstanding Variety Talk Series were announced Tuesday morning, Seth Meyers’ late-night show was included along with longtime nominees Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah and John Oliver, who has the HBO series Last week Tonight took home the award for six consecutive years.
It was a big moment for the NBC franchise, which has been nominated for screenplay over the years, but has so far never surpassed the main category that will be awarded in the top broadcast. one network in September.
Excluded from the list this time is Full front presenter Samantha Beewho repeatedly found himself as the only late-night host to be nominated during President Trump’s four years in office.
Midnight’s nomination comes after a abnormal push from late-night moviegoers, opponents of the decision would cut the Featured Series Talk Variety category from five nominations to four. Traditionally, a category must receive at least 20 entries to earn five spots, but this year there were only 19 spots.
This rule change almost certainly opened the door to Meyers’ performance, which Emmy voters have clearly awarded for its work but are historically underrated in general. .
While some late-night shows — like Jimmy Fallon Tonight’s program and James Corden’s Late evening, neither of which produced a cut — even pivoting away from politics in the post-Trump era, Meyers used her “A Closer Look” segment to focus on continuing to fall. discharged from Trump’s presidency. Over the past year, that has included diving into Rise of Ron DeSantisTucker Carlson’s dangerous rhetoric and Committee bombings of January 6.
In many ways, Meyers’ long segment “A Closer Look” was the closest thing late into the night to in-depth exams on major social and political issues that helped John Oliver win a post-Emmy Emmy for Last week Tonight. But unlike Oliver, who spends only half an hour a week, Meyers is delivering four hours of solid content, including occasional from home with COVID.
So even though no host has been able to beat Oliver since Jon Stewart won an Emmy for his final season The Daily Show in 2015, if anyone could do it, it could only be Meyers.
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