Seth Meyers Shares Best Comedy Advice & Favorite TV Comedy | THR Comedy Roundtable Off Script Moment

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THR pulls Seth Meyers aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of his THR Roundtable interview and shares the funny way his daughter pronounces "oranges," the best piece of comedy advice he's received and more.

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00:00What is one thing that never fails to make me laugh? My daughter says

00:16hornages instead of oranges. I would say my favorite TV comedy of all time would

00:22be cheers. If I'm talking about an iconic TV character that means a great deal to me,

00:30give me Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec. I feel like the best piece of comedy advice I got was

00:36from my dad. When I was trying to be funny as a kid, he would say, if you say something funny

00:40and you worry that nobody heard it because nobody laughed, there's a good chance they did hear it

00:45and just didn't think it was funny, so don't say it a second time. Comedy hero, as far as earliest

00:50introduction to what comedy could be, would be Steve Martin. My parents have a lot of Steve

00:54Martin now. He's going to be a lesson to him a lot, so give me Steve. So many people don't know about

00:57comedians. I feel like that is a problematic question in that we come in so many different

01:02shapes and sizes and the biggest mistake you can make is say all comedians are one way or the other.

01:07Every good comedian takes it seriously. Just because it's funny on stage doesn't mean we think

01:12it should be funny when you're working on making it better. Yeah, I think we come in a lot of different

01:16walks. Do I have an audience warm-up song? No, I don't have an audience warm-up song. In fact, I feel

01:22like when I do stand-up, they always say, what kind of music do you want us to play when the people

01:27come in? And I always just say, play whatever the last comedian asked for if it was a good show.

01:33I don't want to have an extra burden of making a choice. All I want to choose is what I'm doing

01:38on stage. I hate when they ask me, what do you want the lights to look like? All of that is a disaster

01:44to me. I just want to focus on the material I've worked on, so anything I can sort of farm

01:49out to professionals I like to. It's funny, like reinvention, I think is, I would imagine

01:54for myself would be a giant mistake, whereas refining is, I think, what... I think you should

02:00consider reinvention. And you're alone with that, or do a lot of people say bye in my back?

02:04We're good friends.

02:05Okay.

Seth Meyers Shares Best Comedy Advice & Favorite TV Comedy | THR Comedy Roundtable Off Script Moment

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