Seth takes a closer look at Facebook’s absolutely disastrous week filled with a damning whistleblower interview, an unprecedented outage and a shocking Senate hearing.
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Facebook's Disastrous Week, From Whistleblower Bombshell to Global Outage: A Closer Look – Late Night with Seth Meyers
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I love how much fun they’re having without the audience. God bless Wally
Something that makes me a bit angry is how deliberately Seth Myers is ignoring all the requests on youtube, all the comments, from all the people, that we DON’T want an audience back… Why are they just completely ignoring us?
Luv Catra
@John Napier Presumably, people pay to watch in the theatre. If so, the theatre needs its income so I guess the programme is currently playing its bills. Maybe it is out of necessity. But, if there is no handicap to having no audience, you’re right – in the name of better entertainment, the audience isn’t needed…
ME TOO!!!!! Brings me pure delight ☀️😁☺
“I don’t know any tech company that sets out to build products that make people angry or depressed” says the charming fellow who built a platform for which the first mission was to rate the sexual appeal of women at Harvard.
@Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse I mean, was it a joke? His other post already made him seem very downbeat but maybe my sarcasm radar is off today
@Beavis Butt-Headson It was a dark joke about how long dogs live, Beavis.
@Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse Mr. Wick is well-suited to dogs. I should probably get a tortoise. Something I can actually outrun. Also it’s fun to watch them eat. Cute little helmetpuppies. Have to make sure it’s mentioned in my will, though, my sisters’ kids might end up having to take care of it.
@Lex Slate Oh, I see. Yep, totes didn’t get that *facepalm*
@David Thompson so sorry for your loss.
Voting for no audience. Even when we don’t get the inside jokes, you guys laughing is still hilarious.
I actually oddly like it more when I don’t get the inside joke, lol, maybe it’s because I am laughing from the crews laughter and not necessarily the joke.
@Nomadic Media hey what was your reaction to Corrections? I was so blown away Seth had taken the time to acknowledge our audience concerns… and then promised to do corrections crew only… still a bit speechless
Yup, Colbert’s show is far less interesting now.
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I can honestly say the silver lining of this freakin’ pandemic has been more screentime for Wally. He’s a national treasure. 💗
PLEASE NO AUDIENCE – this show has blossomed bigly with no audience…
Immensely. Bigly isn’t a word.
@Kenny it is a word
“Advertisers don’t want to be associated with anger and depression.”
Do tell Zuck—how much did you make during the 2020 election?
I stop watching TV, because I was starting to feel depressed and it wasn’t just the commercials. Everything you watch in television is about violence, death. Cops show CSI Houston ,Dallas,New York
Even the comedy show for example Cedric the Entertainer show I was watching it for a while and slowly it went bad. Next week the neighbors lose their baby how is that funny. With do much going on in the world there is no outlet.
@Sew Fantastic Sadly enough, all the good TV shows started in the last decade were kicked out after one or two seasons for “lack of viewers” – aka lack of violence, brutality and death. A show like the original Star Trek or even Next Generation would fail today after season 1 – too few people die and it’s overall way to intellectual.
I think the outage was more a cover up action.. remove the most damning scripts i am guessing..
Adverts are designed to make people feel inadequate, unfulfilled, ugly, unhealthy offering their product as the solution.
It’s called marketing and it works!
@Nomad Purple Yes, obviously they work on most. I have no idea why, because the attempt at manipulation is so obvious. I see the ads and think “look, another thing nobody needs”. I guess I’m just to minimalistic to buy things.
I feel like Seth’s been saying there’s going to be an audience for weeks now and there’s never an audience at the beginning of the new week and I love it so much.
FB: “It was a maintenance issue.”
Translation: They paid the ransom.
Either that or, someone now has an interview with Twitter on Friday.
No, someone would’ve bragged about it by now. FB just f’d up.
An, just a faulty config that slipped through their QA… assume stupidity rather than malice.
Or they got rid of the evidence
I’m reluctant to consider the past week “disastrous” to Facebook. Simply because they’re still a multibillion dollar company, their influence and reach continue to be high, and despite the supposed outrage, and with nearly 3 billion users as of this second quarter, I would say they’re still very profitable, and have no incentive to really change their ways.
If you want to rein them in or hold them to account, those clowns you call your Representatives should probably impose some kind of legislative measures. Which is supposed to be their job.
Hello Chris how are you doing today hope things are fine over there
I know is going to sound weird, but I think the show has gotten significantly better since the pandemic and I feel the lack of audience has helped. Im a bit afraid the show will change once again the audience is back, cause right now is perfect.
I love to hear the staff laughs in the background and how casual and goofy they all are. It’s like seeing a group of friends having fun, which is great.
That doesn’t sound weird at all.
Edit: it truly is much better in its current format!
It has youtuber format. Like how youtubers duo react to videos, memes, etc. The staff laughing in the background makes it all the more endearing.
Yeah, sort of reminds me of the original Talk Soup from the 90s
I think there is a psychological aspect to not having a live audience. Imaging going through life wanting to be a good comedian and end up going from SNL (top tier job in that career) to Youtube videos we use to see like Smosh.
A live audience means somthing. It’s an experience for that crowd even if it is forced sometimes. You people not wanting tha or taking that away from people is selfish, just because its convenient for YOU to click on a video. this world is really lame.
I actually hope they maintain this
Hoping to see a correction on the “audience will be coming back” error. Thanks.
Yes please. This erroneous announcement needs to be corrected.
#NO AUDIENCES IN LATE NIGHT
@BrynPoo KC I 100% agree! #NoAudiencesOnLateNight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9cDJmH2BQQ
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Man, I was hoping this show was going to be the first late night show that went permanently audience-free. This show over the past year has been a gift.
@Carol Willis Simsak It actually probably costs them money to have an audience. Most of the shows in Rockefeller Center are free (from what I know) and then they have security and need a warm up person. I’ve been (the Tonight Show) and the tickets are generally given out weeks ahead of time and you have to wait in line for ages and the studio is freezing but there is nothing to spend money on and it didn’t cost a dime. It is mostly tourist though so the difficulty is getting the dates you will be in the city since they are given out on a first come/first serve basis.
@Sondra Ferguson I’ll take three, but one without pickles
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YES!!
Man and the audience is there but not there for it. WE HEAR YOU SETH, MAKE ANOTHER WEDDING CRASHERS JOKE
You forgot the best part about the outage: They locked themselves out of their own office buildings because the keycard system was managed by software running on the servers that sit in said buildings. Genius.
@Vivi Gesso Even easier: Replace it with nothing! I deleted my facebook account years ago. If you desperately need a functionality of facebook, rest assured that there is a way of providing that without the democracy-toppling side effects.
☺️heeheehahaha”
@Vivi Gesso I flushed something down the toilet this morning that was better than fb.
@Vivi Gesso we do not need such plattform at all they destroy and harm more as use, so no need to do develop something better
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“It’s like finding out all the drinking water in the world is controlled by company called-”
It’s Nestle. The company that owns obscene amounts of water rights and runs shady practices to keep control of its shares is Nestle.
Honourable mentions to CocaCola, and Pepsi Co.
it is said what the west has become the last 30 years. Of course money always ruled the world, but it wasn’t that bad before. In historic days and in poorer parts of the world things have been/are more complicated but we have ressources that it could have be another outcome for whole society. :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9cDJmH2BQQ
#boycottnestle
I’m in Australia. The CCP owns most of our water! Apparently.
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So let me get this right, we can either have more Wally or an audience. I vote for more Wally!
The announcer wanted that to be a home run so much he temporarily convinced himself that it was. It happens to all of us these days, except most people don’t correct themselves afterwards,
Lol politicians freaking out about Facebook’s negative business practices.
Can’t wait until they hear about tobacco and alchohol 🤣
And oil!
“taint polite” would never see a live audience. these are the jokes I NEED!.
The way Wally raises his pinky while drinking champagne is just life.
Voting for no audience like everyone else here, this show has really blossomed. Great as always