After Stephen Colbert, the host of the most-watched late-night show on broadcast television, was unceremoniously canceled, it’s no surprise that his peers are also concerned about what might happen to their shows.
Seth Meyers has revealed that he also has the fear that Late Night with Seth Meyers could end tomorrow.
Speaking on the Armchair Expert podcast, hosted by Dax Shepard (see video below), which was recorded before The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was axed by CBS, Meyers said: “Only because it is such a time we’re living in as far as the entertainment industry. There is this weird thing [where] I feel like I shifted from fearing that I wouldn’t be good enough and now my fear is weirdly more outside my control, which is just at some point the ecosystem might not support it. I guess that’s better than thinking it’s your fault, but it is weird to not feel any control over it.”
Late Night with Seth Meyers launched in February 2014, and the former SNL star has led nearly 1,700 episodes of the show, which is produced by Broadway Video and Universal Television for NBC.
“If there’s a breakthrough over the 11 years of doing the show, [it’s] just show up and do the work,” he added. “That’s the only part they’re paying you to do, it’s the only part you’re good at. All the other problems, we have people that are as good as that as you are at a thing you do and don’t mess around with it. I sometimes take stock of, this isn’t the best time to be doing what I’m doing but at least I got in. The world knows Seth Meyers in a way that I’m happy with.”
Meyers admitted that early in the show’s history, he had some issues. “I’ve had lower points in the body of the show where, early on in the show, we had some NBC executives actually say to u,s ‘We’re very worried about how the show is going to go’,” he added.
