Seth Meyers admitted that the shock of Trump's second victory caused the late-night team to sit down to set the tone.

Seth Meyers revealed that he had a serious meeting with his team after US President Donald Trump's second election victory and said he didn't want to do it again.

Seth Meyers admitted he changed the tone of the late-night show after Trump won a second term

Comedian Seth Meyers has admitted he changed his tune when President Donald Trump was re-elected, saying he had a conversation with his team.

Late-night host Seth Meyers admitted in an interview Tuesday that he's changed his tune and held a meeting with his team after President Donald Trump's re-election.

Naimeh Reza, host of the "Smart Girl Dumb Questions" podcast, asked Mirz if political comedy makes people feel too comfortable. Myers said it was a concern, but he didn't know how to approach it. He also said he doesn't want to sound the alarm about the Trump administration every night on his show.

"We had this tone-deaf conversation on our show because, again, I mean, we were shocked by his selection twice, right? The first time more than the second time, but the second time we sat down with everybody," he said.

"Look, I don't think we're going to be the same as the first four years, are we? I think it's going to be different, and it's going to feel different, and it's also going to be -- it's going to be a little bit like undoing if we go through these moves again," Mears continued.

Journalists say Trump in his second term is "unfettered" and more comfortable with power.

"And so, what we do and what I go out every night before the show and I say to the audience, like, 'Look, this show is fun. It's fun that you're here. And like there's a real power and joy.' So, what we're talking about is not joy, but like us - I don't want to perform with the weight of everything on top of me."

"I want to be honest about it," Myers added. "We want to get our facts right. But we think there's some strength in being happy about the fact that we all agree on how crazy it is."

The late-night host also slammed Jimmy Kimmel during the interview. Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" He was suspended in 2025 after comments he made about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“Having said that, like if they turn off the lights quickly, when they turn off, right? Like when Kimmel went on the air, like I don't think he knew that morning that he was going to go on the air that night. And that was certainly the scariest time of all."

"The scariest thing about the second semester is, I feel like, when you don't make your first attempt, it's a lot more like going back to the drawing board," Myers said.

Myers credits NBC News with never telling her what to "say," calling it "a special thing."

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"They believe they're like Thomas Paine, who wrote, 'These are the times that try men's souls,' and all that sort of thing. Joy should be seen as a victory. Cry me a river. Late-night hosts like Myers have become more popular on the left because of their heavy emphasis on all things Trump and their hyperbolic outlook."

Meyers, along with late-night comedian John Oliver, recently joined Kimmel on his show, where the pair described Kimmel as a "bulletproof vest."

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Oliver said Kimmel comes up a lot during the Q&A sessions at the stand-up shows he does with Meyers.

“Because they usually say, like, how does it feel that the current president doesn't like it? "And we always say as long as you're on the air, we're good."

"We're totally supportive," Oliver told Kimmel. "We are fully behind you, just as we are fully behind a bulletproof vest."

The group continued to speculate as to why Kimmel got so much attention from the president, with Mears saying, "Besides the fact that you don't like him, we think he wants to hang out with you."

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