Late Night host Seth Meyers wasted no time in reacting to the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Tuesday night, ripping into the conservative justice as part of a segment called “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.”
As the title implies, the segment consists of jokes written by the Late Night writers that Meyers, as a straight, white man doesn’t think he could get away with telling. For that, he enlisted two of his writers, Amber Ruffin, who is Black, and Jenny Hagel, who is gay, to deliver the punchlines.
Meyers and Hagel lit into Coney Barrett as part of a reference to a forthcoming gay-themed Christmas film on the Hallmark Channel. The plot, explained Meyers, follows a gay couple trying to adopt a child.
Related: Seth Meyers Debunks The Lies That Killed HERO
How about we take this to the next level?
Our newsletter is like a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.
“And the town that rises up to defeat them!” Hagel chimed in.
“I’m just kidding,” she then added. “A town’s not gonna keep gay people from adopting. Amy Coney Barrett is.”
And the segment goes on like that. Meyers and Ruffin also lit into White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany who asserted that the phrase “Make America Great Again” is synonymous with “Blue Lives Matter.”
“And both are synonymous with the phrase ‘But where are you from from?'” quipped Ruffin.
The segment also featured zingers about lesbians trying to adopt an acient Egyptian cat, and the forthcoming lesbian romance Ammonite starring Kate Winslet.
Have a look. We don’t know about you, but we need a laugh.
Liquid Silver
It’s a bit late now. You should have aborted that appointment before it hit the full Senate.
Now nobody will be aborting anything.
leo1008
“Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” is an abject surrender to political correctness and a death knell for comedy. It would be much funnier simply to re-title it as “Jokes Seth shouldn’t tell,” and then have Seth tell them anyway. That would at least show a little bit of the kind of daring nature that goes into good comedy. Seth was much funnier when he was on SNL; his own show has lurched so far into Leftist conceptions of social justice that he literally, and explicitly, does not even allow himself to be funny anymore. I gave up watching his increasingly boring and sterile show a while ago.
Mort
You make me smile with my heart.